ESPN Draft Guru Field Yates has been on the Sam Leavitt train for a while now.
Yates qualified the Arizona State Signal, the appellant of the first four quarters of the 2026 draft class and compared it to the former mentorian of Kenny Dillingham, Bo Nix, whose recruit of 2024 raised the bar on his expectations for the Denver broncos.
Now, the analyst’s NFL simulation project in 2026 before the start of the seasons of the college and pro and pro of 2026 shows that the place of Leavitt as the fourth best QB of the class is in an elite level in the context of the full class.
Yates a Leavitt in ninth row of the Rams of Los Angeles as a function of the ESPN football power index which defines the order of the project. Los Angeles has the Atlanta Falcons project niche from a trade day trade in 2025.
It is not clear if Matthew Stafford will play in 2026, but the Rams can add his apparent heir to the draft anyway. Leavitt is an innovator, showing an exceptional balance, Moxie and creativity under constraint. The second year student is a talented launcher and a very strong runner. He had at least three touched passers -by and zero interceptions in five of his last seven games last season, and he finished with 443 yards on the ground of the year. The can start thinking about the future under the center with this choice among the first 10 via Atlanta.
The recovery of 2026, in Yates, is rich with high-level quarter-Arrières talents with the Texas of Texas Manning, the sellers of Lanorris of Caroline du Sud and Cade Klubnik de Clemson in a two-three.
Two places after Leavitt is outside the board of directors, Drew Allar de Penn State is selected at n ° 11 in the simulation.
Sam Leavitt is not the only ASU product in the first round of the Yates NFL simulation project in 2026
If the Leavitt season takes place as planned, it will be helped – and will help – the recovery stock of the recipient Jordyn Tyson.
With the two best receivers of university football in Alabama, Ryan Williams and Jeremiah Smith of Ohio State, not eligible for Go Pro, Tyson is the first wide receiver in the table of the Yates model in n ° 20 in total, where he joins Nix on broncos.
The Broncos are well supplied at most on the list, but putting another difference gamer alongside Courtland Sutton, Marvin Mims Jr. and Evan Engram could lift the whole offensive. At 6 feet 2 inches and 200 pounds, Tyson is extremely comfortable with the ball in his hands and has a very good instinct after taking. He played five games with more than 100 reception yards in 2024 and joined Leavitt to train one of the best Duos QB-WR of university football this season.
