THE NFL 2025 draft is almost there, and the sports experts of Yahoo Nate Tice and Charles McDonald decompose the position of the superior prospects by position. Here are the quarters. Discover Nate and Charles' Big Board consensus herewith Nate's large final board And Final Big Board de Charles.
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3. Shavon Revel Jr., Caroline de l'Est
Here are the five best hopes of the Corner of the Restchage of the NFL 2025. (Davis Long / Yahoo Sports)
1. Travis Hunter, Colorado
Nate Tice: As a most dynamic player in the country, Hunter changed the situation to the cornerback and the wide receiver at university. However, I think that his best path as a professional is as a full -time defender with a good duty in attack – a use of his coach / mentor deion Sanders when he played with the Dallas cowboys in 1996.
Hunter can always remain sticky to his coverage assignment, showing speed and body control to prosper in man to man situations, with the excellent burst to play on football and cancel the receiver. He plays with a high level of intelligence for the position, and will take the calculated games to fall from his coverage assignment and even bait the quarter-rear in interception opportunities. Hunter's ball skills and the feeling for the position are rare. His athletics is unlocked by his innate ability to always find – and to descend – football. Hunter seems to make a big game every quarter of the game.
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Ballet skills, speed and body control all appear when Hunter also plays a wide receiver, but it is gross in position, without refinement than it shows on the other side of the ball – and, yes, it quickly improved this season. He also plays larger than his listed size (6 feet, 188 pounds) because of his hands and his coordination, while being able to create with the ball in his hands. This makes bidirectional game at the next level a real possibility, even if it is for a small packet of parts.
The moderate volume of Hunter does not present itself as a plateau; He is a physical defender. But it is also a reason why I have a few The hesitation about Hunter is a full -time player on both sides at the next level (with the pure mental charge, but it is something that can come over time). Anyway, Hunter is a Helluva football player and any team writes him, he obtains a revolutionary talent.
Charles McDonald: Put Hunter anywhere, but first place looks like too much reflection, even if it does not respect the high media threshing that it has set itself after a unique university career.
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In addition to the Heisman trophy, Hunter won the Bednarik Prize for the best defensive university football player And won the Biletnikoff Prize, which is up to the best wide receiver in the country. Hunter is a legitimate prospect of first round with a large receiver and the cornerThanks to certain ball skills from another world and general athletics that make him an impact player on both sides of the ball. So far, Hunter is categorical on both directions in the NFLWhich will be difficult, but it is difficult to doubt someone who has already done so far on their talents.
Hunter is perhaps a little more ready for the cornerback at the moment, when his instinct and athletics can make him a nuisance for the matches that pass, but a game with the wide receiver is also completely defensible (and exciting).
The term “generational” is too launched in the cover project, but for someone like Hunter, it really applies.
2. Will Johnson, Michigan
Charles McDonald: Johnson did not have the best end of his university career when injuries shortened his last season in Michigan, but in his best, he can be a real era as a corner half. Johnson was an anchor for the national defense of Wolverines, winner of a title, there are a few seasons and should always have salivating teams to add a player who could be able to go aside with the most difficult receivers of the game.
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The second band of Johnson, sometimes, looked like what Broncos Cornerback Pat Supervice II became in the NFL, although Suver has a size advantage over him. As long as Johnson nailed the interview part of the cycle, he should hear his name entitled early.
Nate Tice: He fought against injuries in 2024, but Johnson's talent still shines when he is on the ground. A long good-sized player (6-1, 194 pounds, 30 1/8 inch arms), Johnson has the construction and athletics of a prototypical corner of modern NFL.
Johnson uses this size to stifle wide receivers. It is not the only way to do it. Whether it is zone or man cover, Johnson is able to stay constantly in the pocket of wide, even smaller receptors, with its excellent combination of speed, bursting and body control.
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Johnson does not have a long -speed elite, and his physique is more “OK” than “good”, but it is a fluid athlete that is not done in bad positions because of his ability to turn and run and close football. There will be questions about the inconsistent season of Johnson 2024 and his history of injuries that the teams discover, but he has the rise to be a real corner n ° 1 at the next level in a variety of diagrams.
3. Shavon Revel Jr., Caroline de l'Est
Nate Tice: Revel has the ideal size and length of half an outdoor departure corner in the NFL. He has a good speed of the foot and can start and stop to follow the receivers, as well as the ball skills to stifle the receivers.
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Revel missed most of 2024 after an LCA injury at the start of the season, but his features and his little game sample were strong enough for me to think he will have a lot of fans in the league if his doctors were clean. He could also bear to add bulk and strength to his game, and like most young cornerbacks, he can sometimes be incompatible with his technique. However, it is size, length, trembling athletics and the overall increase in a high -end corner that can play in any type of defense.
Charles McDonald: Half of the corner of the East Carolina which barely played last season could be a first round choice – it's how good Revel is. It is a long athletic corner (32 5/8 inch arms) with serious ball skills to match an athletics + on the field. His last season at the ECU was stolen due to an LCA injury, but he showed all the skills required before that in 2023.
For “older” football fans, think of Dominique Rodgers-Crommartie.
4. Jahdae Barron, Texas
Charles McDonald: Barron was a big winner in Indianapolis, directing a 4.3 40 yards dashboard after the teams had concerns about his deep speed. It always projects itself as a corner of slot machines in the NFL, but it is already good and it is a position which becomes more and more important in the league.
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Nate Tice: Barron aligned himself all over the field at the university. He is better described as a football player. It does not have a high overall speed, but it is nervous and has the burst of quickly closing the bunge carrier. It is a good platform that has the talent to play games on football (he tries to hit and browse each ball near him loose). Barron is also a good blitzer who has an idea to sink inside and play.
On the cover, Barron is the best as a zone defender or in the coverage of humans at the tight ends (better and faster receivers can give him problems).
Barron's best position will be as a defender of the full -time slot machine who can move around the defense for a creative defensive game player.
5. Maxwell Hairston, Kentucky
Nate Tice: Hairston's game is based on speed, with its 4.28 40 times to the NFL combination appearing with its ability to recover and close on the ground. Hairston has a bulk lower than the average (183 pounds) but has a solid length. Hairston has good eyes and ball skills and is able to play on the ball in the air.
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But his lack of size and play force appears when he has to become a plate and play against the greatest receivers. As a set, too often, Hairston ends up grabbing air while the runner comes to him. He can also count on his ability to recover too often and does not trust what he sees. However, the speed kills and the NFL teams will be struck by this.
Charles McDonald: Speed, speed, speed. This is the name of the game with Hairston. He had a solid last year for the Wildcats and may have made his turn in the Top 50 of the draft after having run in the 4.2 at the NFL screening combination.
If you are looking for a dice jet based on features beyond the first round at the hearth, it could be the guy to target.
