ALL22 Global is back with another round of NCAA prospect evaluations, and this time we’re highlighting a trio of high-level Swedish talents already featured on our exclusive Substack.
Football in Sweden doesn’t look like football in the U.S. There are no Friday night lights, no 100,000-seat American football stadiums, and no constant pipeline of five-star recruits. What Sweden does have is a growing community of players, coaches, and clubs that are working with limited resources, yet still developing talent at a very high level.
Every so often, one of those players gets the nod. A scholarship offer lands, a flight to the States gets booked, and a kid who learned the game from much farther away suddenly finds himself in a Division 1 locker room.
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Let’s take a look at this next wave of Swedish talent!
IDL Valdin Sone – University of Georgia (2026)
- HT: 6040e / WT: 305e
- Age: 19
- Athletic Awards: N/A
- Citizenship: Sweden
- Career Stats: 8 GP | 6 TOT | 3 SOLO | 3 AST | 0.5 TFL | 0.5 SCK
- Background: The son of Cameroonian immigrants to Sweden, Sone grew up playing soccer and participating in taekwondo and ju-jitsu. He was ranked as a 247Sports composite four-star prospect coming out while also leading Sweden to the 2024-25 IFAF European Junior Football Championship. His breakthrough came at the 2023 Road2D1 Combine in Germany, where he was discovered by the Bulldogs.
- Scouting Report: The freshman is a highly physical interior lineman who wins with his immense strength and quickness. He has an endomorphic build, an oval upper body and big quads/cut-up calves. He lines up all over the interior, but I mostly saw him at 4i and 2i alignments. Sone exhibits great functional strength, holding the POA well against the run, even through double teams. Shows solid lateral agility to pursue down the line and get involved. Arrives with violence and speed, jumping in to wrap tackles. As a pass rusher, he can routinely win when he gets his hands in first, clearing would-be hands and using a nice arm-over move to beat his man. Bull rushes with nice hip and foot strength to drive blockers into the passer and displays a nice counter spin move. Has enough strength to drive through double teams through brute force. He’s a bit of a wild mover due to some over-aggressiveness. Can get knocked off balance when he lets guys into his chest first. Overall, he’s a likely developmental NFL prospect that will get looks through his strength/speed in all areas of play, but one who needs more technical refinement in his college career.
- Development: Watching Sone’s 2024 tape, you can tell he’s taking to high-level Division 1 coaching, as one of the biggest improvements is in his balance on his bull rush. Before, he was just drudging forward without much care, perhaps due to the level of play. Now you can see him really get behind his hips and drive blockers back, generating immense knockback while on balance.
- Grade: 52
IDL Alexander Cossignani – Delaware State University (2023-26)
- HT: 6040e / WT: 285e
- Age: 21e
- Athletic Awards: N/A
- Citizenship: Sweden
- Career Stats: 37 GP | 18 GS | 36 TOT | 14 SOLO | 22 AST | 3 TFL | 0.5 SCK | 2 PBU | 1 FR
- Background: Originally from Lund, Cossignani attended Ystad Gymnasium and played club football for the Ystad Rockets. After being a rotational defensive end/tackle for his first two seasons, he took over as a starter last year and is now a mainstay mostly at defensive tackle for the 2026 season.
- Scouting Report: Cossignani is an alignment-versatile interior lineman who wins with effort. He has a mesomorphic build, a trapezoid upper body and quad bulk. He lines up in almost every 4-3 defensive interior alignment. He plays with a good motor, showing nice gap discipline to occupy run lanes. Exhibits some functional strength to stay alive versus double teams. Decent lateral agility to stay parallel and get involved in the play. Wraps tackles with good technique and pad level. As a pass rusher, he relies mostly on a bull rush with a solid ability to play long and create distance when contacted. Uses an arm over move as his main counter. He shows solid speed closure, regularly pursuing QBs outside the box. He can be late to disengage, often leading to missed tackle opportunities. Lacks a rush plan, often just trying to create space and ball watch to see if the play comes in his area. Overall, Cossignani is a functional European Global starter that can win with his motor in all facets of the game, but one who may not excel in any specific area.
- Development: One of Cossignani’s biggest improvements is in the speed department. His jump from last season to this season has shown nice strides in his lateral agility and range to pursue passers to the boundary. His short-area burst to close on ball carriers also looks much more sudden.
- Grade: 38
RB Oliver Lundberg – Colorado State (2026) / University of Connecticut (2023-25)
- HT: 5100e / WT: 200e
- Age: 20e
- Athletic Awards: N/A
- Citizenship: Sweden
- Career Stats: 19 GP | 41 CAR | 203 YDS | 1 TD | 5.0 YPC | 2 REC | 0 YDS | 4 TOT | 2 SOLO | 2 AST
- Background: Lundberg is originally from Gothenburg. He attended the RIG Football Academy in Uppsala. He won the Nordic Championship and was named the MVP of the championship game. He also won the 2021 National Championship with the Taby Flyers and the 2022 National Championship with the Gothenburg Marvels. In 2022, Lundberg was named MVP of the European Championships for the second straight season.
- Scouting Report: Lundberg is a rotational one-cut-and-go runner that is limited in the passing game. He has a mesomorphic build, a rectangular upper body and cut-up calves. Lundberg has almost exclusively carried the ball in shotgun formations. He shows a nice ability to keep his hips square to the LOS and get upfield quickly. Runs on balance and shows the ability to get skinny through trash. Hits a cut and drives upfield, following open lanes to pick up what’s there. Does a decent job of meeting contact at the POA with some physicality. He’s not going to wow you as a receiver, showing decent hand-eye coordination on accurate balls, with some hand-eye struggles to corral balls away from his frame. Takes bad angles in pass protection, often leading to QB pressures. Can provide ST value, often playing on kick coverage with some decent wrap-up tackling. Overall, Lundberg is a functional European Global starter who will win through his one-cut style and pick up necessary yardage, but who needs technical improvement in the passing game.
- Development: Lundberg’s biggest jump from his 2025 tape to his 2026 tape thus far has been in his physicality at the POA. Last season, he wasn’t really meeting contact to scrape out hidden yardage, often accepting contact and going down instantly. However, this season he’s been much more willing to finish with some force and squeeze out those extra yards, showing some nastiness.
- Grade: 38
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Samit Bariana is the Director of Team Operations at ALL22 Global. A Vancouver, B.C. native, he previously worked for Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer and wrote for TSJ101Sports. He has pro scouting experience with the West Texas Desert Hawks of the Arena League, Aquile Ferrara of the IFL, and Rome City Institute, giving him a unique blend of talent evaluation, international recruitment, and media expertise.