Payton Turner
Detroit LionsPos EDGE
Updated August 24, 2026
Model Score
67.4
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 →
Draft & College
Round 1, pick 28 · New Orleans Saints · 2021
Houston (American Athletic)
Taken
#28
where he actually went
Consensus board
67th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#403
among EDGE in our college data
He went well ahead of consensus.
In college · 2020 · 7 games
5.0 sacks, 10 TFL, 6 pressures, 25 tackles
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 220 players taken as a late first-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 70% earned a second contract and 72% became starters. The median one started 58 career games.