What college does Harold Perkins Jr. play for?

No verified pre-draft news items in the past 30 days for this prospect. See Day 2/3 Team Fits below for projected landing spots and /news.html for the cross-prospect timeline.

Scouting Nugget: Bama transfer to LSU; ACL recovery profile

Expanded bio coming soon. This prospect is Linebacker #23 in the 2026 class.

Scouting Snapshot

LSU LB from Cypress (TX); former 5-star recruit whose dynamic production was reset by 2024 ACL tear. 2025 recovery year. Round 5-6 — upside pick if medicals clear.

Mock-Draft Consensus

ESPN (Jordan Reid)	PFF Big Board	Jeremiah Top 50	Consensus Avg	Realistic Range
#144	#221	—	#182.5	Picks 90-200

30-day trend: Rising — medical-dependent

Ranks cross-referenced from ESPN's Jordan Reid top-500, PFF's 2026 Big Board top-200, and Daniel Jeremiah's top-50 (NFL.com). Realistic draft-night range reflects projected team fit and trade scenarios, not just big-board placement.

Sources

Our scouting profile is assembled from these primary sources + cross-checked against ESPN (Kiper / Reid / Miller), PFF's 2026 Big Board, Dane Brugler's The Beast 2026, and Daniel Jeremiah's top-50. See our full methodology and citations.

Day 2 / Day 3 Team Fits

NFL teams that lost a same-position veteran this offseason — and could target Harold Perkins Jr. as a Day 2/3 replacement option.

REPORTED New York Giants: moved on from Bobby Okereke (MIKE-LB).
Picks held: R1 #5; R2 #37
REPORTED Cincinnati Bengals: moved on from Akeem Davis-Gaither (slot-LB).
Picks held: R1 #10; R2 #41
REPORTED Chicago Bears: moved on from Tremaine Edmunds (MIKE-LB).
Picks held: R1 #25; R2 #57; R2 #60 via Buffalo

Confidence: "VERIFIED" departures cite a publication URL (Spotrac, OverTheCap, ESPN, NFL.com, team transactions page) confirming the move and date. "REPORTED" entries come from public free-agency trackers without a single canonical source we could attach. Fits are archetype-and-position based; we are not claiming the team has expressed interest in the prospect.

NFL Scheme Fit

Tampa-2 / cover-3 rangy WILL coverage role
Indianapolis Colts · Chicago Bears · Jacksonville Jaguars · Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Scheme Misfit Notes

Base-down 4-3 thumper schemes

Scheme matches are bucketed from the prospect's height, weight, and (for WRs) archetype tag against a static lookup of which NFL teams currently run each scheme family.

Rookie Contract & Landing-Spot Outlook

Projected Rookie Contract Value

~$4.5M – $4.9M (4-year deal) · Pick range: #129-160 · ~15% guaranteed

Modest signing bonus + minimum salaries

Best-Case / Worst-Case Landing Spot

BEST CASE: Jacksonville Jaguars · R5 pick
Why: LB listed in their top-5 positional needs; runs a scheme that maximizes his profile.
Year-1 arc: Day-1 starter window with cap-controlled rookie-contract production.

WORST CASE: Las Vegas Raiders · R5 pick
Why: LB not in their stated top-5 needs; runs a scheme that doesn't naturally amplify his profile.
Year-1 arc: Depth-chart competition + special-teams reps as Year-1 baseline.

Contract band uses the 2026 NFL CBA rookie wage scale projected from the prospect's expected pick range; guarantee % is the slot-default at that pick. Landing-spot best/worst case is derived from TEAMS data (positional needs + scheme overlap minus same-position R1 conflicts) — not a claim that either team has expressed interest.

Versatility, Limits & Roster Pathway

Position Versatility & Alternative Roles

Coverage LB / dime-package only — Sub-225 LB frame caps base-down work vs power runs; ideal as a dime LB / Money backer matched up on RBs and TEs.

Biggest Limiting Trait HIGH

Sub-220 LB frame — Stack-and-shed vs NFL OG climbs is the first thing tested; coverage-only role caps base-down snaps.

Day-3 NFL Roster Pathway

Day 3 projection means a 53-man roster spot is not guaranteed — special-teams contribution (kick/punt coverage, gunner, return-game blocking) is the typical first-year survival path.

Derived from height/weight against the 2026 position cohort and the prospect's projected round. Versatility callouts identify alternate alignments NFL teams have historically used for similar size profiles. Limiting-trait notes flag the single most-cited measurable concern; severity reflects how often that flag ends a Day 1 starter projection. Roster-pathway notes describe the realistic Year 1 NFL role for Day 3 picks.

By the Numbers — 2026 Class Context

Frame: Among 2026 LB prospects, his 6-1 / 220 lbs frame sits at the 35th percentile in height and 12th percentile in weight.
Position class: Harold Perkins Jr. is LB #23 of 26 ranked LBs in the 2026 class. Of those, 2 are projected in the R5 range.
School pipeline: LSU has 2 LBs in the 2026 NFL Draft class (13 total prospects from the school).

Computed factually from the 2026 prospect class roster — height/weight percentiles benchmark this player against every other ranked prospect at the same position. Recruiting arc compares his high-school 247Sports/Rivals composite to his current projected round.