Spencer Rattler

New Orleans Saints·#2

Pos QBHt 6'0"Wt 211 lbExp 2 yrCollege South Carolina

Updated September 22, 2026

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Model Score

77.3 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 →

Spencer Rattler Injury StatusNot listed

Spencer Rattler is not on the injury report as of Sep 20. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Spencer Rattler Stats This Season

Pass Yds

Pass TD

INT

Rush Yds

Rush TD

0.0

Fantasy PPG

Advanced Metrics EPA & Next Gen Stats

0.0

Total EPA

0.000

EPA / dropback

0.00s

Time to throw

0.0

Avg air yards

0.0%

Aggressiveness

0 yd

Longest comp (air)

Draft & College

Round 5, pick 150 · New Orleans Saints · 2024

South Carolina (SEC)

Taken

#150

where he actually went

Consensus board

89th

average of the public big boards that spring

Our college model

#64

among QB in our college data

He lasted longer than consensus.

In college · 2020-2023 · 44 games

9,963 pass yds, 70 TD, 16 INT, 63.7% completions

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

Comps

College career

his college career vs theirs

Kedon Slovis89%Brent Stockstill83%Kenny Hill82%

STM Take

The jump from #46 in 2024 to #35 in 2025 is real improvement but still inside tier 8, meaning the model sees a developmental QB without a clear starter ceiling. New Orleans drafting Shough in the 2nd round and giving him the second-half reps is the cleanest signal about how the organization views Rattler's trajectory: viable backup, not a starting answer.

Rattler came out of South Carolina as New Orleans's 5th-round pick (150th overall) in 2024, after a college career that began as a five-star Oklahoma starter and ended as a transfer to Columbia. He lost his Oklahoma starting job to Caleb Williams in 2021, which became the defining moment of his prospect arc. He started seven games as a rookie in 2024 when Derek Carr was injured, then split 2025 reps with Carr and Tyler Shough before Shough took over the long-term starter role at midseason.

Strengths

Marginal year-over-year rank improvement (#46 to #35) suggests development is happening even if it is incremental. The 21.68 PPR Wk 2 opener and four consecutive 11+ PPR games early in 2025 showed flashes of competent production.
Live arm and pre-snap recognition are stronger than the 5th-round draft slot suggested. The Oklahoma-to-South Carolina arc and his fight back from a benching shows resilience scouts undervalued in 2024.

Concerns

Tier 8 in both NFL seasons keeps the ceiling capped. He has not moved the efficiency metrics (YPA, CPOE) in a meaningful way across 14 career starts.
The 0 PPR Wk 15 2025 plus the team's clear investment in Shough confirms the organizational view: he is a backup-tier piece, not part of the long-term plan.

What to watch: Whether he gets meaningful 2026 reps behind Shough or becomes pure third-string insurance and is moved by the trade deadline.