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Will Echoles

#52· Ole Miss ·DT ·Jr ·2027 Draft · Houston, MS
6'3"Height 315 lbWeight
RepresentationRepresented AgentYolonda Addison Confirmed
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My Grade
8.4/10
Day 2 Caliber
Current · Draft Caliber
7.7 Floor range 1.3 Ceiling 9.0
9.0/10
Round 1 Caliber
Ceiling · +0.6
7.7/10
Day 3 Caliber
Floor · −0.7
Ceiling: Projected 2026 starter (DL1) — real opportunity to climb; close to ceiling (+0.6) · up-year team.
Floor: Proven starter — high, stable floor · returning-starter role secures it; downside −0.7.
Grade last reviewed 1w ago
8.9+ Round 1 Caliber
7.8+ Day 2 Caliber
6.7+ Day 3 Caliber
5.6+ Priority UDFA
4.4+ UDFA
3.3+ Long Shot
2.2+ Raw Prospect
1.1+ Deep Project
0.0+ Non-Prospect
Grade History
8.4 2025
Re-graded after each season · 2025 is the beta baseline.
Scouting Notes

A penetrating three-technique who lives in the backfield and plays with the leverage to reset the line of scrimmage. Echoles turned a five-game, half-sack 2024 into a genuine breakout in 2025: 68 tackles, five sacks and five pass breakups across 15 games, the kind of interior production that shows up on double-teams as much as one-on-ones. The get-off and hand quickness let him win early, and ESPN slotted him among the nation's top draft-eligible interior defenders. The caution is baked into the timeline, though: this is one proven season of dominance, and single-year interior breakouts carry more variance than the raw sack number suggests, so I want to see the disruption repeat before treating the ceiling as the floor. SI has floated a first-half-of-Round-2 projection with a Round 1 push, and AtoZ ranks him the No. 3 draft-eligible tackle for 2027. Projects as a Day 2 interior defender with a real path to the first round if 2026 confirms it.

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