What college does Jordan van den Berg 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: Penn State transfer

Expanded bio coming soon. This prospect is Interior D #18 in the 2026 class.

Background

Georgia Tech IDL from Bellevue (WA); Penn State transfer interior rotation piece.

College Production

2021-24 PSU: rotational (40 tackles, 8 TFL). 2025 GT: 35 tackles, 7 TFL as ACC starter.

Scouting Take

Size (6-3, 305) + length. Power limited; pass rush minimal.

Draft Projection

Round 7. Run-down interior rotational.

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 Jordan van den Berg as a Day 2/3 replacement option.

REPORTED Las Vegas Raiders: moved on from Bilal Nichols (3-tech-DT).
Picks held: R1 #1; R2 #36

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

Penetrating 3-tech in a one-gap attack
Cincinnati Bengals · Tampa Bay Buccaneers · Philadelphia Eagles · Detroit Lions

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

~$4.1M – $4.4M (4-year deal) · Pick range: #201-257 · ~5% guaranteed

Mid-pick band — guarantee % varies pick-to-pick

Best-Case / Worst-Case Landing Spot

BEST CASE: Tampa Bay Buccaneers · R7 pick
Why: IDL 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: New York Jets · R7 pick
Why: IDL 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

Day-3 NFL Roster Pathway

Day 3 DL projection means rotational sub-package work and special-teams snaps are the realistic Year 1 role; pass-rush production carries the most weight.

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 IDL prospects, his 6-3 / 305 lbs frame sits at the 61st percentile in height and 23rd percentile in weight.
Position class: Jordan van den Berg is IDL #18 of 31 ranked IDLs in the 2026 class. Of those, 15 are projected in the R7/UDFA range.
School pipeline: One of 6 Georgia Tech prospects in the 2026 NFL Draft — but the only IDL.

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.