Minkah Fitzpatrick

New York Jets

Pos S

Updated August 24, 2026

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Model Score

86.7 MODEL

2018

83.5

2019

80.2

2020

86.2

2021

85.0

2022

87.7

2023

84.5

2024

82.6

2025

86.7

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 · 14 games

136th

INT

627th

Pass Deflections

63.6%40th

Comp % Allowed

6.814th

Yds / Target

231st

TD Allowed

5715th

Solo Tackles

Draft & College

Round 1, pick 11 · Miami Dolphins · 2018

Alabama (SEC)

Taken

#11

where he actually went

Consensus board

10th

average of the public big boards that spring

Our college model

#126

among S in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2016-2017 · 25 games · partial record

7 INT, 15 pass breakups, 126 tackles, 14 TFL

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

Coming out

4.46s

40 yd

14 reps

Bench

33"

Vertical

121"

Broad

Comps

Overall match

size, testing and production, same career stage

Logan Ryan93%Derwin James89%Tre Boston88%

Plays like

on-field production only

Adrian Amos95%Talanoa Hufanga93%Logan Ryan93%

STM Take

Five Pro Bowls plus three 1st-team All-Pros plus the 2022 tier 1 (#7) STTM peak plus the Alabama 2017 CFP National Championship pedigree establishes Fitzpatrick as one of the elite safeties of his generation. The 2025 tier 3 (#17) Miami bounce-back after two tier 5-7 years puts him in the rare change-of-scenery rebound class. The 2026 question is whether Fitzpatrick returns to tier 2 territory or whether the structural late-prime ceiling stabilizes at top-25 S.

Fitzpatrick came out of Alabama as the Miami Dolphins' 1st-round pick (11th overall) in 2018 after winning the 2017 CFP National Championship. He has made five Pro Bowls (2019-2022, 2024) plus earned three 1st-team All-Pro selections (2019, 2020, 2022). He was traded from the Pittsburgh Steelers back to the Dolphins in 2025. His STTM career runs tier 2 (#14) in 2021, tier 1 (#7) in 2022, tier 5 (#38) in 2023, tier 7 (#53) in 2024, and tier 3 (#17) bounce-back in 2025.

Strengths

Five Pro Bowls plus three 1st-team All-Pros plus the 2022 tier 1 (#7) STTM peak plus Alabama 2017 CFP National Championship pedigree establishes Hall-of-Fame trajectory S résumé.
Alabama 11th overall draft pedigree plus eight years of NFL elite production gives him the rare championship-pedigree elite career foundation.

Concerns

Two-year decline from tier 1 (#7) in 2022 to tier 7 (#53) in 2024 confirms the structural mid-career decline was real.
Miami's broader defensive identity around the Tua Tagovailoa offensive instability puts continued Fitzpatrick production partly outside his control.

What to watch: Whether Fitzpatrick returns to tier 2 (top 15) in 2026, the threshold for confirming the late-prime ceiling can be sustained.