Quincy Riley

New Orleans Saints

Pos CB

Updated August 24, 2026

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Model Score

72.5 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 →

Season Stats · 17 games

138th

INT

1035th

Pass Deflections

59.6%54th

Comp % Allowed

7.983rd

Yds / Target

359th

TD Allowed

2967th

Solo Tackles

Draft & College

Round 4, pick 131 · New Orleans Saints · 2025

Louisville (ACC)

Taken

#131

where he actually went

Consensus board

126th

average of the public big boards that spring

Our college model

#123

among CB in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2020-2024 · 58 games

15 INT, 34 pass breakups, 154 tackles, 11 TFL

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

Coming out

4.48s

40 yd

Comps

Overall match

size, testing and production, same career stage

Terrion Arnold76%Mike Hughes72%Rashad Fenton72%

Plays like

on-field production only

Marshon Lattimore90%Darious Williams88%Terrion Arnold86%

Built like

measurables only

Harrison Hand88%Andru Phillips88%Bruce Thornton87%

College career

his college career vs theirs

Michael Ojemudia88%Jarius Monroe87%Trumaine Washington87%

STM Take

Rookie tier 7 (#52) for a 112th overall 4th-round pick is on the upper end of the year-one band for Day 3 CB prospects. The Louisville ACC 2024 First-Team All-ACC honors plus the structural Saints anchor role gives him real college foundation. The 2026 question is whether Riley crosses into tier 5-6 territory in his year-two jump or whether the role compresses to swing depth.

Riley came out of Louisville as the New Orleans Saints' 4th-round pick (112th overall) in 2025 after earning 2024 First-Team All-ACC honors. The Saints used him in the CB rotation as a rookie. His first STTM appearance comes in 2025 at tier 7 (#52), the year-one developmental band for 4th-round CB prospects.

Strengths

Louisville ACC 2024 First-Team All-ACC honors plus the 112th overall draft slot gives him real college foundation.
Year-one rotational reps for the Saints at age 22 gives him the developmental runway.

Concerns

Single tier 7 finish without prior STTM history caps the long-term projection certainty.
New Orleans's broader defensive identity transition compresses the structural support around Riley.

What to watch: Whether Riley crosses into tier 5 (top 40) in 2026, the standard year-two threshold for 4th-round CB picks on stable-starter trajectories.