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Top 10 cornerbacks of the 2025 NFL Draft:

Finishing up the second week of our positional draft rankings, we’re flipping back over to the defensive side of the ball, going from wide receivers to the guys who will be covering them – the cornerbacks. Once again, I’ll break down my top ten prospects with compact scouting reports for each of them, along with some names who just missed the cut. More than at any other position so far, I feel like I should mention that these rankings don’t reflect injuries but rather purely the talent/film and generally, I don’t love trying to weigh those anyway since we don’t have insight into medical records, like NFL teams do.

This CB class to me is a little misunderstood because it’s highlighted by a player who we don’t have a firm grasp if he’ll primarily play on offense or defense – or potentially both. Three of the next four names for me didn’t finish this past college football season and therefore have kind of been forgotten. And after that, a lot of better prospects are primarily considered nickelbacks. So while this group isn’t as strong as last year’s, I believe if healthy there are five guys worthy of first-round consideration, the other eight listed here will probably find themselves inside my top-100 big board, and even though there are a couple of names that have fallen from grace beyond that, there are also a few with impressive profiles, that’ll be appealing to NFL evaluators.

Here’s my list:


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Top 10 wide receivers of the 2025 NFL Draft:

We enter week two of my positional draft rankings and it’s all about the passing game, looking at wide receivers and then cornerbacks on Friday. As always, I’ll lay out my top ten prospects at the position along with some honorable mentions, with compact scouting reports for each of them. Before anything else, here’s a quick disclaimer – Colorado’s Travis Hunter will find himself in the defensive edition, but his value as a two-way standout will be reflected on my big board at the end of this process.

This WR class isn’t up-to-par with some of the great ones we’ve seen in recent years, in particular with a trio of guys going in the top ten in the most recent group. Due to how wide open the college game has become and the amount of talent coming up the ranks, you can find redeeming qualities even as you get 30+ names into the list however. Personally, I value three guys definitely as first-rounders, four more in the second and then you can make a case for about ten different players throughout the rest of day two.

This is how they stack up for me:


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Top 10 linebackers of the 2025 NFL Draft:

Continuing our positional draft rankings series, we switch over to the defensive side of the ball for the first time. After taking a look at the running back class earlier, we’re shifting our focusing to the guys who’ll regularly be involved in collisions with them – the linebackers. And that’s the formula we’re going to follow throughout this project.

This group of off-ball LBs is far less popular among scouting circles than their counterparts previously discussed, but there are two prospect with a pretty wide range in the first round. After that, there are three or four other names who will probably come off the board on day two and several players who should at worst be quality package players with special teams value.

Here’s the list:


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College all-star game standouts for 2025:

The NFL season has concluded with the Philadelphia Eagles putting on a dominant showing in Super Bowl LIX, when they got revenge on the Chiefs by ending their quest to the first ever three-peat, which started two years ago with a win over the Birds on the big stage. Of course we’ll discuss free agency soon, but we are ready to fully dive into draft season and for people who haven’t paid attention yet – this process has already started.

We’re just over two weeks away from the NFL combine, but the all-star games and preparation for those are in the books. So after watching all of the practice footage and both contests to finish off those events, I want outline the names that stood out the most to me from East-West Shrine and Senior Bowl weeks. I did watch the Hula and Tropical Bowl and we’ve still got the HBCU Bowl on slate, but I want to focus on those two prime showcases of talent.

Therefore, I decided to highlight ten standouts on offense and defense each, also picking the same number from each event. I could’ve easily talked in detail about several other players who caught my eye and am happy to share my notes down in the comment section, but I did at least list a bunch of names at the bottom.


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Top five college players at each position a month into the 2024 season:

We’re four weeks into this collegiate season and it’s time for me to give my annual check-in on who the best players in the nation are currently. My rankings are largely based on the film work I did partially during this prior draft cycle for returning names and studying up during the summer, but also catching up on them in the early stages here. Obviously, I haven’t watched every single FBS game, but a large portion of those, I went through a bunch of the advanced numbers and tried to at least evaluate each of these (and other) guys in one more matchup so far.

Just to clarify, these rankings are concerning the top five players at each position for the college level – so how well they’re performing at right now and how I’d pick them in a team selection-like setting, somewhat detached from their surrounding pieces, as I’m trying to judge them individually. There’s a lot of overlap to how I’d stack the names up projecting forward to next year’s draft already (at least for the guys who are eligible), but I wanted to make that distinction here.

Let’s get into it:

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