Thomas Booker
Las Vegas RaidersModel Score
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
Draft & College
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Comps
STM Take
First STTM top-50 finish at tier 6 (#41) in year four for a 150th overall pick puts Booker in the late-bloomer journeyman class with structural top-50 IDL ceiling. The Stanford Pac-12 pedigree plus the multi-team experience gives him basic plug-in veteran value. The 2026 question is whether Booker holds tier 6 or better with the Raiders or whether the role compresses to swing depth.
Booker came out of Stanford as the Houston Texans' 5th-round pick (150th overall) in 2022 after earning 2021 Pac-12 All-Conference honors. He bounced through Houston and the Patriots before landing with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2025. His first STTM appearance in the top 50 comes in 2025 at tier 6 (#41), an unusual year-four emergence for a 5th-round pick.
Strengths
- First top-50 STTM finish at tier 6 (#41) in year four for a 5th-round pick puts him in the outlier-positive journeyman class.
- Stanford Pac-12 pedigree plus the multi-team experience gives him basic veteran market value.
Concerns
- Single tier 6 finish without prior top-100 STTM history caps the long-term projection certainty.
- Las Vegas's broader defensive identity instability plus the multi-year rebuild compresses the structural support around Booker.
What to watch: Whether Booker holds tier 6 or better in 2026 or whether the role compresses to swing depth.