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No scouting note for Cole Payton yet — see the full profile for stats and stock.
24-34 and 1 TD vs ECU, 318 yards, added an 11-yard rushing TD. Then 23-32 3TD vs Wake, a big comeback on the road to win 34-24. He completed 72% of his passes (18-of-25) for 152 yards and 2 touchdowns with zero turnovers vs FSU in a 21-11 win. In the lone scouted loss, Bailey passed for over 200 yards and threw a 6-yard TD pass to Terrell Anderson. Todd McShay called NC State's CJ Bailey the quarterback that surprised him the most at the Manning Passing Academy. ➕ 22 career starts before age 20!! ➕ Completion percentage improved from 64.9% to 68.8% in Year 2 ➕ TD: INT ratio improvement 17:10 to 25:9 ➕ Sack rate improvement (6.4% ➡️4.6%) ➖Ball placement under pressure ➖Post Snap coverage recognition ➖Production vs Top competition.
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Cole Payton and CJ Bailey are compared here on Fanspeak's 2027 NFL Draft data — body measurements, position-relevant college production, the community consensus big board, average draft position across thousands of mock drafts, and how often each prospect shows up in those mocks. Rather than one scout's take, the matchup reflects where the draft community as a whole values each player.
Consensus rank is the cleanest single signal: a lower number means the crowd boards the prospect earlier. ADP layers in mock-draft behavior, and mock-draft volume tells you which prospect the community is paying attention to. The stat comparison checks the winner of each metric.
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