Nick Niemann
Pos LB
Updated October 8, 2026
Model Score
73.3
MODEL
Resting on limited playing time
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 →
Comps
Coming out
pros whose college production, size and testing looked like his
Nick Niemann Injury StatusNot listed
Nick Niemann is not on the injury report as of Oct 7. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.
Draft & College
Round 6, pick 185 · Los Angeles Chargers · 2021
Iowa (Big Ten)
Taken
#185
where he actually went
Consensus board
222nd
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#1293
among LB in our college data
He went about where consensus had him.
In college · 2018-2020 · 32 games
152 tackles, 8 TFL, 2.0 sacks, 1 INT
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
What this pick usually becomes
Of the 500 players taken as a fifth or sixth-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 26% earned a second contract and 16% became starters. The median one started 2 career games.
