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: 09/28/2026

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#	Player	Pos	H/W/S	Weight	Height	40YD	AVG POS RANK	AVG OVR RANK	Rating	Summary
6	DT A'Mauri Washington	6-3 330lbs 4.85	DT	330lbs	6-3	4.85	3	24.8	87.1 MORE>>	Washington is a 330-pound interior anchor who moves better than the listed weight suggests, resetting the line against single blocks,...
39	DL Jehiem Oatis	6-5 325lbs 4.90	DL	325lbs	6-5	4.90	33	251	76.9 MORE>>	Oatis is a massive two-gap nose with rare movement for his size and disruptive flashes dating to his Alabama days, reuniting with...
12	DL Ahmad Moten Sr.	6-3 325lbs 4.95	DL	325lbs	6-3	4.95	8	40.6	85.9 MORE>>	Moten brings 325 pounds and an interior rush that does not usually come in that package, built on quickness off the ball rather than mass,...
19	DT Jayden Jackson	6-2 322lbs 4.95	DT	322lbs	6-2	4.95	20	142.5	83.1 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...
45	DT D'Antre Robinson	6-4 315lbs 5.00	DT	315lbs	6-4	5.00	43	455.5	75.5 MORE>>	Robinson has bounced from Florida to North Carolina and on to a third program for the coming year, and his 2025 tape is the steadiest of...
35	DT Elinneus Davis	6-2 315lbs 5.20	DT	315lbs	6-2	5.20	36	281	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...
36	DT Maraad Watson	6-3 313lbs 5.20	DT	313lbs	6-3	5.20	40	291.5	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...
49	DL David Oke	6-2 312lbs 4.90	DL	312lbs	6-2	4.90	48	643	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...
3	DT David Stone	6-3 310lbs 4.90	DT	310lbs	6-3	4.90	1	16.1	87.2 MORE>>	Stone is a five-star interior lineman whose run-defense tape is the calling card: he fires off the snap with rare burst for the size, gets...
2	DT Will Echoles	6-3 310lbs 5.10	DT	310lbs	6-3	5.10	2	17.3	87.5 MORE>>	Echoles broke out as a sophomore and turned into one of the most productive interior players in the country, pairing stout, physical run...
17	DL Tyrique Tucker	6-0 307lbs 4.94	DL	307lbs	6-0	4.94	29	219	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...
32	DT C.J. Fite	6-2 305lbs 5.15	DT	305lbs	6-2	5.15	35	263.5	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...

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.