We are finally here: the week of NFL 2025 draft. Yahoo Sports Draft experts, Nate Tice and Charles McDonald, made eight (!) Simulated dilks and eight large combined plates, all to help you prepare for the NFL signature off -season event, which is starting on Thursday.
You can watch Tice and McDonald, as well as the host Jason Fitz and the fantastic analyst Matt Harmon, on the Yahoo Sports Draft Live Show, which begins at 8 p.m. He / 5 p.m. PT Thursday for the first round, then at 7 p.m. He / 4 p.m. Friday for the second and third round. Journalists from Yahoo Senior Sports from the NFL Charles Robinson and Jori Epstein will also appear.
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Tice and McDonald classified the first five prospects at each position before the project, and you can read an extract from their breakdowns below. Click on the link at the bottom of each position section for the complete classification. And consult Tice and McDonald's Big Board consensus herewith The large final board of TICE And McDonald's Final Big Board.
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Rear quarter
2. Shemer Sanders, Colorado
Nate Tice: Sanders has improved his game this season, especially with his sensation in his pocket and the timing with which he plays on the concepts. Sanders is hard, has a good arm and is more than ready to challenge defenders on more difficult throws like breakers in the middle. In rhythm, he can let his passing sensors thrive because of his friendly ball placement.
Sanders has a size lower than the average and is also just an average athlete, which appears when asked to create. He has considerably improved his pocket movement (although he always tends to derive back).
Sanders still has a lot to work, especially with regard to timing and sensation in the pocket. And although he has a good arm for the NFL, his tools are not overwhelming enough to constantly reduce difficult situations. Sanders will have to be deposited in a good ecosystem to continue climbing to the next level.
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Back-back
2. Omarion Hampton, North Carolina
Charles McDonald: It is unlikely that a ball carrier will be selected that day of high draft, but Jeanty is absolutely one of the best players in this class.
It is built like a steel ball and is incredibly difficult to shoot when the defenders put their hands. He easily bounces the plated, showed that he could carry a heavy workload and had solid performances against the most difficult teams with which Boisse State was confronted. Jeanty’s ability to break the plated has made him a threat to home and if he can continue to do so in the NFL, he will be a sweetener for offenses in the way veteran runners were last season.
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Wide receivers
2. Travis Hunter, Colorado
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.
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.
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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.
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Tight bits
3. Mason Taylor, LSU
Nate Tice: Taylor has a strong pedigree being the son of Jason Taylor and the nephew of Zach Thomas. He has a good setting and is a clean runner who can quickly go from the receiver to the runner – while having the speed to be an intermediate threat in the seams.
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Taylor will compete as a blocker, but must always become physically stronger. It always shows the potential to suspend as an online blocker.
Taylor was an instant contributor when he started the university and the LSU deposit in the talent of the receiver allowed him to be more highlighted last season. He is a best friend of classic QB with good hands and a wide range of capture; Taylor is more than comfortable to expand and tear it away from his body and is such a fluid athlete that he can always keep his feet even when he needs to reach throws.
Taylor is size, athletics and football Qi to be a beginner who can be a positive player in any type of offense.
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Offensive line
5. Josh Conly Jr., Oregon
Charles McDonald: Another great athletic offensive line player who can contribute from the start. Conerly could be a right tackle in the NFL, but it is not necessarily a bad thing. This position group concerns the sum of its parts, and Conerly is a quality perspective with the place to develop. It is a good engine that can still become stronger, but the capacity for movement to its size is what makes it a coveted perspective.
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On -board rushers
1. Abdul Carter, Penn State
Charles McDonald: Carter oozing with a potential of 10 helmets in the NFL. He is an explosive agile player who spent all last season to flow through attacking lines when he accumulated a last season of monsters for Nittany Lions. Carter has a thin construction (250 pounds at 6 feet 3 inches), but it is often able to attenuate this with blinding speed – which allowed him to direct the FBS with 24 plated for the loss last season on the regular season and the CFP.
Carter can have an early impact with his speed while he becomes stronger and gain weight for the NFL. Carter faces an injury to the foot at the moment which will put him away from working for the rest of the draft season, but that will not prevent him from being selected early.
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Interior defensive line
3. Kenneth Grant, Michigan
Nate Tice: Grant does not always fill the box scoring with its game, but it is a nose plate of more than 330 pounds which can devour the blockers with its size and strength, but has light feet and a lot of speed to make the pocket more than push in the block.
Grant is downright built with a large chest but is not a total plush. He plays with agility to return to the screens and chase them also on the field. It was not always productive in Michigan, but there are real stretching games where Grant dominated (ask the USC and Ohio State). Grant is an intriguing combination of size and athletics, with enough good film to make the assessors of optimistic talent that he begins to come together as a player.
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Seconds
2. Jihad Campbell, Alabama
Nate Tice: Campbell is a refreshing player to monitor: a defender with the combination of size, speed, violence and intelligence to really have the potential to play as seconds in the NFL.
Campbell is a large body (6 feet 3 inches, 235 pounds) which had an excellent day of tests in Indianapolis with 4.52 40 times. He also has the game band that reflects his size and his speed combination. Campbell is strong enough to face the climbing of offensive line editors and at the speed to run the touch line to Side. It is very fluid and sufficiently explosive to be a good coverage player, but can be a little incoherent in this area because of its development feeling always in development.
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Campbell is also a disruptive pass rusher who can win against line editors (he has experience as advanced defender) and was a total gap against poor university RBS. There are still parts to clean, but Campbell has the potential to be a real impact defender in a position where he has become more and more difficult to find even starters halfway. It also makes sense in many different defenses.
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Corner
4. Jahdae Barron, Texas
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 a talent for playing football games (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.
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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.
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Security
5. Xavier Watts, Notre Dame
Charles McDonald: Watts has had a productive career in the back for Fighting Irish, but is more a pure ballhawk with a little room to desire on the tackle front. However, it is difficult to ignore 13 choices in the last two seasons, which will have a lot of value for the NFL teams.
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