NFL Scouts Give Ole Miss QB Chambliss First-Round Grade — SkimNews
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- Trinidad Chambliss has drawn first-round NFL draft grades from multiple college scouting directors and other personnel staffers after Ole Miss opened 3-0, with one area scout comparing his makeup and play to 10-time Pro Bowler Russell Wilson.
- Chambliss threw for a combined 699 yards and accounted for seven total touchdowns in Ole Miss' first two games against Power Four opponents — a 41-38 win over Louisville and a 32-24 win over Lane Kiffin's LSU — after breaking in as a fill-in for injured starter Austin Simmons.
- Ole Miss benefited from an opposing coach's remark last season that surfaced this week from CBS Sports: after Chambliss erupted for 415 yards against Arkansas as a backup, that coach said, "If they play Simmons (against us), they're doing us a favor."
- The 2027 quarterback class has underwhelmed NFL scouts through the early season, with the general feeling that many once-hyped prospects should return to school rather than enter the draft — a dynamic one scout said makes Chambliss's rising stock harder to bet against.
- Some NFL personnel staffers still view Chambliss as a Day 2 or fringe Day 2/early Day 3 prospect, citing his official measurements of 5-foot-11 7/8 and 208 pounds and concerns about "operating on time in a normal NFL offense," with one player personnel director calling the package "untraditional."
- Scouts cited Chambliss's "even-keeled" temperament and 2025 jump as reasons for the upgrade, with one college scouting director telling CBS Sports, "In a business of overthinking, stop overthinking."
Why it matters: For a 2027 QB class that scouts describe as largely underwhelming through the early season, a late-riser like Chambliss could compress the draft board and push less-developed signal-callers back to college. A first-round grade from multiple scouting directors also raises the stakes for the six NFL teams still sorting out their long-term quarterback plans — though his 5-foot-11 7/8 frame means at least one personnel director still has real reservations about projecting him to a pro-style offense.
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