John Franklin-Myers
Tennessee TitansOVERPAIDModel Score
How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →
Season Stats · 16 games
Draft & College
He went about where consensus had him.
Comps
STM Take
Super Bowl LIII ring plus the 2024 tier 4 (#28) Denver breakout puts Franklin-Myers in the small group of late-career edge defenders who hit a structural ceiling jump after years of tier 7-8 production. The Stephen F. Austin FCS origin plus the Vance Joseph defensive scheme appears to be the catalyst. The 2026 question is whether Franklin-Myers holds tier 5 or better at age 30 or whether the structural age-related decline drops him back to the pre-Broncos tier 7-8 baseline.
Franklin-Myers came out of Stephen F. Austin as the Los Angeles Rams' 4th-round pick (135th overall) in 2018 and won Super Bowl LIII as a Rams rookie reserve. He landed with the New York Jets in 2019 and signed an extension, then was traded to the Denver Broncos in 2024 free agency. His STTM career runs tier 7 (#55) in 2021, tier 8 (#64) in 2022, tier 8 (#63) in 2023, tier 4 (#28) breakout in 2024 with Denver, and tier 5 (#39) in 2025.
Strengths
- Super Bowl LIII ring plus 2024 tier 4 (#28) Denver breakout as an FCS 4th-round pick gives him the rare champion-to-breakout journeyman résumé.
- Eight years of NFL survival across three systems with the 2024 breakout proves the late-career ceiling can still expand.
Concerns
- 11-spot regression from tier 4 (#28) in 2024 to tier 5 (#39) in 2025 flags the 2024 breakout as potentially context-driven.
- Pre-2024 STTM history almost entirely in tier 7-8 raises the question of whether the Denver scheme dependency holds in 2026.
What to watch: Whether Franklin-Myers returns to tier 4 or better in 2026, the threshold for confirming the 2024 breakout was scheme-driven rather than a one-year context spike.