Defensive Line Rankings 2027 NFL Draft

49 defensive linemen ranked

DEFENSIVE LINE RANKINGS 2027 NFL DRAFT

The 2027 defensive line is led from the inside, which is unusual - only once before in the seven classes we have graded has an interior player topped this group, and three of this year's top five play inside.

Oklahoma's David Stone is the man at the top, a five-star who added eighteen pounds before his sophomore year and led the Sooners' interior in tackles. Oregon edge Matayo Uiagalelei follows with 52 pressures and six sacks across 726 snaps, a year after leading the Big Ten in sacks. Ole Miss's Will Echoles broke out as a sophomore with pressure production almost no interior lineman in the country matched across 765 snaps, and Miami's Justin Scott reached Bruce Feldman's Freaks List before playing a college snap.

The size of the group is normal - five inside our top thirty-two, as in every year since 2021 - but the shape of it is not.

LAST UPDATED: 08/30/2026

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#	Player	Pos	H/W/S	Weight	Height	40YD	AVG POS RANK	AVG OVR RANK	Rating	Summary
18	DL Tyrique Tucker	6-0 307lbs 4.94	DL	307lbs	6-0	4.94	24	120	83.4 MORE>>	A stout interior run defender at Indiana, Tucker anchored the middle of the Hoosiers' front in the Big Ten and did his best work stacking...
47	DL Thomas Collins	6-1 282lbs 4.85	DL	282lbs	6-1	4.85	47	277	74.7 MORE>>	Collins started every game inside for Oregon State and gave the front durable snaps, a compact interior player who wins with quickness off...
49	DL David Oke	6-2 312lbs 4.90	DL	312lbs	6-2	4.90	49	330	67.2 MORE>>	Oke arrived from Abilene Christian with real FCS production and a stout 312-pound frame built to two-gap, but a knee injury wiped out...
35	DT Elinneus Davis	6-2 315lbs 5.20	DT	315lbs	6-2	5.20	38	222	78.5 MORE>>	Davis started ten games inside for Washington and gave the front a steady early-down presence, the kind of run-down interior who does the...
33	DE/ED Amaris Williams	6-2 260lbs 4.70	DE/ED	260lbs	6-2	4.70	35	204	79.5 MORE>>	Williams is a five-star athletic bet whose tools still outpace his tape, an edge with good timed speed and a quick first step who flashed...
32	DT C.J. Fite	6-2 305lbs 5.15	DT	305lbs	6-2	5.15	34	202	79.5 MORE>>	Fite is the kind of interior anchor a defense leans on for early-down snaps, a four-year Arizona State presence who played 587 reps across...
31	DL Francis Brewu	6-2 280lbs 4.85	DL	280lbs	6-2	4.85	23	119	79.5 MORE>>	Brewu is an ascending interior lineman who broke out as a sophomore, leading his own profile with a run defense built on quick hands and...
25	DL Ezra Christensen	6-2 260lbs 4.90	DL	260lbs	6-2	4.90	22	116.5	80.7 MORE>>	Christensen put up loud numbers as an undersized interior disruptor, leaning on quickness and leverage to generate forty pressures, six...
22	DL Kemari Copeland	6-2 290lbs 4.78	DL	290lbs	6-2	4.78	26	122.5	82.0 MORE>>	A compact, quick-twitch interior defender at Virginia Tech, Copeland wins with leverage, snap quickness and a nonstop motor rather than...
20	DT Jayden Jackson	6-2 322lbs 4.95	DT	322lbs	6-2	4.95	19	105.3	83.0 MORE>>	Jackson flashed first as a freshman All-American and built on it in 2025, giving Oklahoma a quick-twitch interior presence who plays bigger...
36	DT Maraad Watson	6-3 313lbs 5.20	DT	313lbs	6-3	5.20	37	221	78.5 MORE>>	Watson began at Syracuse, where he earned freshman All-American notice, and spent 2025 as a rotational nose for Texas, bringing 313 pounds...
29	DL/ED Jalen Thompson	6-3 260lbs 4.78	DL/ED	260lbs	6-3	4.78	32	196	80.0 MORE>>	Thompson is an edge-setter first, an experienced starter whose stout against the run and whose value shows up holding the point and...

We've compared players post combine 40 times and weight and charted them on the scatter chart below. You'll find the 40 time on the Y-axis and on the X-axis the weight in pounds.
The exceptional athletic freaks (determined by the combination of speed vs weight) will be found at the top right of the chart while the less impressive athletes will be sitting towards the bottom left.

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We've compared players 40 times and weight and charted them on the scatter chart below. You'll find the 40 time on the Y-axis and on the X-axis the weight in pounds.
The exceptional athletic freaks (determined by the combination of speed vs weight) will be found at the top right of the chart while the less impressive athletes will be sitting towards the bottom left.