Every week, Yardbarker is monitoring the 2025 NFL Draft, scheduled for April 24-26 in Inexperienced Bay.
From a Penn State edge-rusher to a Louisville quarterback, listed below are 5 gamers we’re monitoring:
Will Penn State edge-rusher Abdul Carter’s harm have an effect on his inventory?
Carter (6-foot-3, 250 kilos) has a stress response in his proper foot. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, docs suggested Carter to keep away from surgical procedure on his foot. The pass-rusher will work out at his professional day on March 28 after opting out of the NFL Scouting Mix in Indianapolis earlier this week.
“I could not be extra assured that this will probably be a non-factor the place he is drafted,” Carter’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, mentioned Thursday, per Schefter. “He’ll placed on a present on his professional day.”
Groups ought to monitor Carter’s harm, but it surely’s not anticipated to have an effect on his inventory. Two league sources instructed CBS Sports activities’ Ryan Wilson they’re “not nervous” about it (h/t CBS Sports’ Jordan Dajani).
In 16 video games within the 2024 season, the first-team All-American had the FBS’ seventh-most sacks (12). In his newest mock draft, ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. has the Tennessee Titans taking Carter with the No. 1 choose.
Are the Dallas Cowboys concentrating on Georgia’s Mykel Williams to switch star edge-rusher?
Per NFL.com’s Dan Parr, Williams mentioned he “cherished” assembly with the Cowboys on the mix on Wednesday. May he be a substitute for edge-rusher Micah Parsons?
Parsons is ready to play on the fifth-year possibility in 2025, however the 25-year-old has said he desires an extension. NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport recently reported Dallas has internally mentioned “whether or not to pay Parsons or commerce him for a king’s ransom.”
Williams — who will not work out till Georgia’s professional day on March 12 — may very well be obtainable when the Cowboys choose at No. 12. In 12 video games in 2024, the 6-foot-5, 260-pounder logged 5 sacks and 9 tackles for loss.
Coach reveals how excessive Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty may go in draft
RBs have been devalued just lately. In the 2024 draft, no RBs had been chosen within the first spherical. Jeanty (5-foot-9, 215 kilos) ought to nonetheless be a top-20 choose.
“Love the child. There isn’t any means he falls exterior the highest 15-20 picks,” an RB coach instructed Fox Sports’ Jordan Schultz on Wednesday on the mix. “He jogs my memory of a taller Maurice Jones-Drew. Bowling ball with pace. Man will probably be a direct famous person.”
In 9 seasons with the Jaguars and Raiders, Jones-Drew — a former UCLA star — made three Professional Bowls and earned one first-team All-Professional nod. Like Jones-Drew, Jeanty may turbocharge an NFL group’s speeding assault.
He received the 2024 Doak Walker Award as school soccer’s finest RB after speeding for the second-most yards (2,601 in 14 video games) in a season in FBS historical past. Jeanty will work out at his professional day on March 26 as a substitute of the mix.
Arizona WR Tetairoa McMillan appears to be a faller
Sports activities Illustrated’s Albert Breer recently reported McMillan (6-foot-5, 210 kilos) has gone from a “sure-fire top-10 man into most likely the center of the primary spherical.”
Groups could also be nervous about McMillan’s means to generate explosive performs. In 12 video games in 2024, he averaged 5.1 yards after the catch, which tied for 248th within the FBS (via Pro Football Focus).
When he works out with different wideouts on the mix at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, McMillan should run a quick 40-yard sprint to climb again into the top-10 vary.
“Operating one thing under 4.5 seconds would assist his case,” wrote ESPN’s Field Yates. “It is unusual to see receivers who run above that quantity get drafted within the first spherical, and particularly the primary half of it.”
May Louisville’s Tyler Shough be the QB who turns heads on the mix?
Yates tabbed Shough (6-foot-4, 224 kilos) because the QB who will generate extra hype after Saturday’s exercises.
“He is among the finest throwers within the draft and is not strictly a pocket passer, as he is a simple mover who shows the flexibility to throw on the run and from a wide range of totally different arm slots,” Yates wrote of the 25-year-old QB.
Shough produced first rate numbers in 2024 at Louisville. In 12 begins, he accomplished 62.7 % of his passes for 3,195 yards and 23 touchdowns.
Nevertheless, Shough’s medical historical past might scare groups. In his seven-year school profession at Oregon, Texas Tech and Louisville, he broke his collarbone and fibula.
