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PlayerNick Scott · S, Carolina Panthers, Model Score 69.2Be the Panthers GM

Nick Scott

Carolina Panthers
Pos S
Updated October 8, 2026
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Model Score

69.2 MODEL
2021
71.8
2022
74.2
2023
67.7
2024
67.8
2025
73.7

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 →

STM Take

Super Bowl LVI ring plus seven years of NFL survival as a 243rd overall 7th-round pick puts Scott in the rare championship-pedigree S journeyman class. The career STTM range mostly tier 8 confirms the structural rotational depth ceiling. The 2026 question is whether Scott holds tier 8 or whether the role compresses to swing depth.

Scott came out of Penn State as the Los Angeles Rams' 7th-round pick (243rd overall) in 2019 and won Super Bowl LVI with the Rams. He has bounced through the Rams, Bengals, and now Panthers across seven NFL seasons. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#79) in 2021, tier 8 (#68) in 2022, tier 8 (#99) in 2023, tier 8 (#95) in 2024, and tier 8 (#61) in 2025.

Strengths

  • Super Bowl LVI ring plus seven years of NFL survival as a 243rd overall 7th-round pick gives him the rare championship-pedigree journeyman résumé.
  • Penn State Big Ten 7th-round origin plus the multi-team experience gives him real plug-in S veteran depth value.

Concerns

  • Career STTM range mostly tier 8 across the past five years confirms the structural ceiling has never climbed above rotational depth.
  • Carolina's broader defensive identity instability plus the multi-year rebuild compresses the structural support around Scott.

What to watch: Whether Scott holds an active-roster spot for the full 2026 Panthers season or whether the role compresses to practice-squad rotation.

Comps

Coming out
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Nick Scott Injury StatusNot listed

Nick Scott is not on the injury report as of Oct 7. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Draft & College

Round 7, pick 243 · Los Angeles Rams · 2019
Penn State (Big Ten)
Taken
#243
where he actually went
Consensus board
251st
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#1062
among S in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2017-2018 · 24 games
3 INT, 1 pass breakups, 97 tackles, 2 TFL

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 549 players taken as a late Day 3 pick between 2012 and 2021, 15% earned a second contract and 9% became starters. The median one started 0 career games.

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