Vernon Broughton
New Orleans SaintsPos IDL
Updated August 24, 2026
Draft & College
Round 3, pick 71 · New Orleans Saints · 2025
Texas (SEC)
Taken
#71
where he actually went
Consensus board
130th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#59
among IDL in our college data
He went earlier than consensus.
In college · 2020-2024 · 35 games
6.0 sacks, 10 TFL, 12 pressures, 56 tackles
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
Coming out
4.9s
40 yd
What this pick usually becomes
Of the 410 players taken as a third-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 51% earned a second contract and 39% became starters. The median one started 21 career games.