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Kobie Turner

Los Angeles RamsUNDERPAID
Pos IDL
Updated August 24, 2026
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Model Score

88.3 MODEL
2023
80.8
2024
87.2
2025
88.3

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 · 17 games

76th
Sacks
275th
Pressures
713th
QB Hits
97th
TFL
5316th
Tackles
030th
FF

Draft & College

Round 3, pick 89 · Los Angeles Rams · 2023
Wake Forest (ACC)
Taken
#89
where he actually went
Consensus board
85th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#142
among IDL in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2022 · 12 games
2.0 sacks, 8 TFL, 10 pressures, 34 tackles

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Comps

Overall match
size, testing and production, same career stage
Grady Jarrett91%Alim McNeill82%Gervon Dexter Sr.82%
Plays like
on-field production only
Grady Jarrett91%Jonathan Allen85%Quinnen Williams84%
College career
his college career vs theirs
A.J. Wolf79%Mi'Quise Grace76%Derik Overstreet75%

STM Take

2023 DROY runner-up plus three straight top-10 STTM finishes (#10, #4, #3) for a 89th overall 3rd-round pick puts Turner in the rarest outlier-positive class at the interior defender position. The Wake Forest-via-Richmond FCS pedigree plus the Aaron Donald-era Rams scheme appears to be the catalyst. The 2026 question is whether Turner wins his first Pro Bowl plus 1st-team All-Pro recognition or whether the multi-year STTM dominance creates the case.

Turner came out of Wake Forest as the Los Angeles Rams' 3rd-round pick (89th overall) in 2023 after transferring from Richmond (FCS). He was the 2023 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year runner-up after 9 sacks. His STTM career runs tier 2 (#10) rookie, tier 1 (#4) in 2024, and tier 1 (#3) in 2025, a three-year arc that puts him on the fastest interior defender development pace in recent memory.

Strengths

  • Three straight top-10 STTM finishes (#10, #4, #3) for an 89th overall 3rd-round pick is one of the most outlier-positive draft-slot-vs-outcome arcs at the position.
  • 2023 DROY runner-up plus the Wake Forest-via-Richmond FCS pedigree makes the trajectory one of the most remarkable journeyman-to-elite arcs in recent memory.

Concerns

  • No Pro Bowl or All-Pro recognition yet despite three straight tier 1-2 STTM finishes flags a real gap between metric dominance and broader voting.
  • Rams' broader defensive identity around the Aaron Donald-era transition plus the new scheme architects puts continued Turner ceiling partly scheme-dependent.

What to watch: Whether Turner wins his first Pro Bowl in 2026 plus crosses into 1st-team All-Pro recognition, the threshold for confirming the STTM dominance translates.

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