NFL Rookies

NFL All-Rookie Team 2025/26:

The NFL playoffs just kicked off with a thrilling Wildcard weekend, which I probably couldn’t even summarize in comprehensive enough fashion for an article. Instead, this is the time for me to reflect on the regular season and this rookie class in particular.

What I did here is put together a full offense and defense, along with six backups each, basically at every position, and a foursome of special teamers. Based on trying to put the best 11 players out there, I opted for 12 personnel (meaning one running back and two tight-ends) on offense and nickel personnel (five defensive backs) on defense.

Please bear in mind that this is purely based on the regular season, and while I’ll mention it specifically on a few occasions, I considered rookies who played 200+ snaps.

Let’s introduce the squad:

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NFL Draft

Top 10 offensive tackles of the 2025 NFL Draft:

We’ve reached the big-man portion of our positional draft rankings series. This week we’ll be looking at offensive tackles and edge defenders before we move on to the interior. As always, this list is based on the film only and not taking injuries into account, and watching all of these guys who lined up at OT in college, there are several transition candidates to guard or center based on length limitations or simply their skill-set translating better to either one of those spots at the next level. Here are some names you’ll find among the interior blockers – Will Campbell and Emery Jones (LSU), Grey Zabel (North Dakota State), Jonah Savaiinaea (Arizona), Marcus Mbow (Purdue), Wyatt Milum (West Virginia) and others.

So due to that, I believe there’s a pretty steep drop-off from the four tackles I have firm first-round grades on to the seven players I have more so in the mid-to-late day two range personally. Beyond that, there are a couple of developmental prospects with upside but more so quality college performers whose athletic limitations will limit them to potential swing and fringe roster candidates.

This is how they stack up for me:


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