247sports composite high school rating: 87.85

247sports high school rating: 90

Joyner returns for his likely final season with Minnesota as one of the best pass-rushers in the Big Ten. Per the Pro Football Focus data, Joyner ranked fifth in “pass rush win rate” among FBS rushers last fall with an absurdly high 23.1% win rate. That pairs seamlessly with an elite 90.8 PFF pass-rush grade. And the scary thing for Jah is there’s still plenty of room for improvement. His PFF numbers against the run were below-average, which explains why 61% of his snaps last fall came against the pass, plus his missed tackle percentage was the highest on the defense. Imagine if he can become average against the run and cut down on those missed tackles. Joyner is on an All-Big Ten path for 2024. 

The NFL values guys that look like Joyner, and players that can rush the passer. I’d project Joyner as a top-100 pick come next spring. 

But his position coach in Winston DeLattiboudere knows there’s a lot of time between now and then to prove that ranking. 

“I think he’s just tipping the iceberg of what he can be,” DeLattiboudere said. “Now, that doesn’t mean that all of a sudden he’s gonna wake up tomorrow and be a 14 sack Jah. I don’t think that. I think there’s a lot of small details that he needs to work on, and I’m hard on him. And I think that you should be when you really love somebody that you’re working with. When you love young people, you want to be real with them. You want to be honest with them, and you want to be able to demand, demand, and demand the development that they want to happen in their life.

We take all those things into account, and we make sure that this guy is equipped to go ahead and be a better pass rusher than he was last year. So Jah is kept very humble in that defensive line room not only by me, but by his peers. Because everybody knows in that room that he has a lot of room to grow.”