K'Lavon Chaisson
Washington CommandersUNDERPAIDModel 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
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
Comps
STM Take
Tier 8 (#116) rookie season to tier 1 (#8) in 2025 with the Patriots is one of the most dramatic career-reset breakouts in recent edge defender memory. The 2019 LSU CFP National Championship pedigree plus the 20th overall draft slot established expectations that the Jacksonville chapter never matched. The 2026 question is whether the 2025 tier 1 (#8) finish holds across a full second Patriots season or whether the Chaisson breakout was a one-year context spike.
Chaisson came out of LSU as the Jacksonville Jaguars' 1st-round pick (20th overall) in 2020 after winning the 2019 LSU CFP National Championship. He was widely considered a draft bust through four Jaguars seasons (career-best STTM tier 8 #116 in 2020), then was let go and bounced through depth roles before resurfacing as a tier 1 (#8) breakout with the New England Patriots in 2025. His STTM career compresses to tier 8 (#116) in 2020 and tier 1 (#8) in 2025.
Strengths
- Tier 1 (#8) breakout in 2025 with New England confirms the original 20th overall draft pedigree was real, just delayed by the Jacksonville scheme fit.
- 2019 LSU CFP National Championship ring plus the late-career Patriots reinvention gives him the rare champion-to-bust-to-breakout résumé.
Concerns
- Single tier 1 finish without any prior top-50 STTM history puts the 2025 breakout entirely in the one-year-context-spike risk category.
- Four years of tier 8 production in Jacksonville plus the release context puts the 2025 finish on a small sample with significant downside risk.
What to watch: Whether Chaisson holds tier 3 or better across the full 2026 Patriots season, the threshold for confirming the 2025 breakout was structural rather than situational.