{"id":763982,"date":"2026-02-20T06:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/763982\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:44:16","slug":"when-will-garrett-nussmeier-be-drafted-an-expert-weighs-in-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/763982\/","title":{"rendered":"When will Garrett Nussmeier be drafted? An expert weighs in. | LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garrett Nussmeier seemingly helped his draft stock<\/a> with a strong performance at the Senior Bowl last month.<\/p>\n

Now, the former LSU quarterback will look to carry that momentum into next week\u2019s NFL scouting combine.<\/p>\n

After being named the Senior Bowl MVP, Nussmeier has a chance to further impress teams at the combine with another round of interviews and testing. But where will the 24-year-old eventually land? Nussmeier is arguably one of the trickier evaluations in this year\u2019s class after a disappointing, injury-marred campaign damaged the perception that he could become a top 10 pick.<\/p>\n

Where does that leave him?<\/p>\n

\u201cI like him as a third-round pick,\u201d NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah said on a conference call Thursday. \u201cI feel like that\u2019s the sweet spot for him. But we\u2019ve seen in years past that guys can get elevated, so maybe there\u2019s a chance he goes in the second round. But I like him more as a third-round player who’s got a real interesting skill set in terms of contact delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeremiah, a former scout, praised Nussmeier\u2019s ability to operate from the pocket, despite the LSU product\u2019s undersized 6-foot-1 frame. The analyst said Nussmeier \u201cdoesn\u2019t need a lot of foot space to operate,\u201d while praising his arm and toughness.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s really, really tough,\u201d Jeremiah said. \u201cIt was butt cold at the Senior Bowl, man. It was windy and it was cold and it didn\u2019t seem to have much of an effect on him, which is a great sign for him going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nussmeier\u2019s toughness included playing through a mysterious abdominal injury that plagued him throughout the 2025 season until he was shut down in November. At the Senior Bowl last month, Nussmeier told reporters that he still wasn\u2019t 100% healthy, but had focused on his rehab and retraining his throwing motion \u201cfrom the ground up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeremiah said Nussmeier\u2019s game reminds him of NFL veteran Andy Dalton \u2014 the former Saints quarterback who was a long-time starter for the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n

The Bengals picked Dalton in the second round, 35th overall, in 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The Senior Bowl) was a nice rebound for him,\u201d Jeremiah said of Nussmeier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garrett Nussmeier seemingly helped his draft stock with a strong performance at the Senior Bowl last month. Now,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,4095,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-763982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-hardwall","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116101609335645134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}