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Cheat-code modern backer who can do everything.
The top edge rushers for the 2026 NFL Draft as determined by Fantasy Life NFL Draft Expert Matthew Freedman (final version).

Cheat-code modern backer who can do everything.

Lamborghini edge rusher living in speed-to-power mode.

Relentless snap-jumping menace who jump-started Miami’s resurgence.

Prototype clay who can line up everywhere.

Film-junkie edge whose tape screams “ready-made pro.

Six-year wrecking ball with edge-and-interior flexibility.

Transfer terror with first-step juice and rare bend.

Rare length-and-frame package still learning the craft.

Long, buzzing pressure gnat who lives around quarterbacks.

Explosive late-bloomer who basically lives in backfields.

Day-one producer who just kept cranking up havoc.

Sawed-off strongside end with a jab like granite.

Power-based bully who needs a changeup pitch.

Modern coverage linebacker; playmaker

Pesky strip artist with classic Vols edge frame.


2025 Third Team All-SEC

Journeyman bender finally cashing in on his traits.

Versatile Bama rusher still learning to finish.



Undersized technician who helped fuel Indiana’s rise.


Slim-frame disruptor whose yearly jumps tell the story.

2 sacks and a FR in 2025




23 year-old former ACC DROY (2022)

35 tackles and 2 sacks in 2025; team captain