Three seasons in Eugene, three straight jumps: 2 sacks, then 5.5, then a 9.5-sack, 68-tackle 2025 that had 247Sports writing about scouts loving his consistency while top-50 buzz crept into print. The arc is the argument — Oregon kept handing him more and he kept converting, adding two forced fumbles and five batted balls to the ledger, and he turned down the 2026 draft to keep climbing. However, at 6-3 and 263 pounds he owns neither prototype edge length nor base-end mass, and one 9.5-sack season on a defense stacked with pro talent leaves open how much was scheme and surroundings — the number to trust or bust in 2026 is whether the sack total holds without last year's supporting cast. Day 3 grade in the 2027 class with a tight, safe band; the steady-riser pattern says he outplays the slot if the production simply repeats itself.