2025 NFL Thread

[Cincydawg]

Let's say a player who never starts a game.

We might include players who started fewer than ten games in their career.

[FearlessF]

https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1915596346637128052?s=46

I understand medical records are protected and obviously Will would want to keep this secret, BUT........
if all the NFL teams know this, why wouldn't the draft gurus have a clue?

[847badgerfan]

The arrogance.


https://twitter.com/_MLFootball/status/1915516693612474847

[847badgerfan]

https://twitter.com/_MLFootball/status/1915547708527403471

[FearlessF]

[utee94]

Saw this on a Longhorn message board:

Ohio State’s 2021 wide receiver room was one of the most loaded position groups in college football history, especially during spring practice.
Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave, Jameson Williams, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka made up Ohio State’s two-deep at wide receiver that spring. Four years later, all six of them are now in the NFL as first-round draft picks.
Wilson (No. 10 overall, New York Jets), Olave (No. 11, New Orleans Saints) and Williams (No. 12, Detroit Lions) were all selected in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft. Smith-Njigba (No. 20, Seattle Seahawks) was a first-round pick in 2023. Harrison became the highest-drafted wide receiver in Ohio State history (No. 4, Arizona Cardinals) in 2024. Egbuka became the sixth first-round pick from that group when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected him with the No. 19 overall pick in Thursday night’s first round of the 2025 NFL draft.

[CatsbyAZ]

So much brazen exaggerating of crowds at draft.

Everything about this year's draft media is comically over the top. How did ESPN let their draft "gurus" - McShay and Kiper - get so embarrassingly duped by Shedeur Sanders hype? As if Deion getting both to praise Shedeur for a month straight would get a dumber franchise, like the Raiders, excited over his kid.

On the other side, it was so obvious certain teams were using the draft media to under-hype (or even slander) prospects they wanted, cooling earlier round interest in hopes of later round availability. Clearest example was WR Tetairoa McMillan getting called "lazy" all week.

These background tactics have been used before, as far back as when I started making a Saturday of watching the NFL draft in 1999, but this year it seems like the draft media puppets aren't even bothering to hide who they're tipping for.


https://twitter.com/avl_mike/status/1915032367850295554

[FearlessF]

draft media puppets have always been stupid and wrong - thanks Mel

[FearlessF]

The arrogance.

like father like son
the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree

[MikeDeTiger]

Holy cow......Will Campbell last night became just the second LSU OL ever taken in the first round, joining Alan Faneca.  

And that's despite a slew of guys who had good careers, and several like Whitworth, McClure, Mawae and some others who were great. 

We're not exactly OLU, I guess.  

[jgvol]

Saw this on a Longhorn message board:

Ohio State’s 2021 wide receiver room was one of the most loaded position groups in college football history, especially during spring practice.
Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave, Jameson Williams, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka made up Ohio State’s two-deep at wide receiver that spring. Four years later, all six of them are now in the NFL as first-round draft picks.
Wilson (No. 10 overall, New York Jets), Olave (No. 11, New Orleans Saints) and Williams (No. 12, Detroit Lions) were all selected in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft. Smith-Njigba (No. 20, Seattle Seahawks) was a first-round pick in 2023. Harrison became the highest-drafted wide receiver in Ohio State history (No. 4, Arizona Cardinals) in 2024. Egbuka became the sixth first-round pick from that group when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected him with the No. 19 overall pick in Thursday night’s first round of the 2025 NFL draft.

That's impeccable scouting.  

The odds of all of those guys hitting, even though they were blue chip recruits, is pretty wild.

Seems like half of TN's blue chips flame out in short order.

[Honestbuckeye]

That's impeccable scouting. 

The odds of all of those guys hitting, even though they were blue chip recruits, is pretty wild.

Seems like half of TN's blue chips flame out in short order.

Actually, Olave was very unheralded and under the radar. He was a three star recruit that Ryan Day accidentally discovered when he went to California to recruit Jack Tuttle as a quarterback.😂

[jgvol]

Actually, Olave was very unheralded and under the radar. He was a three star recruit that Ryan Day accidentally discovered when he went to California to recruit Jack Tuttle as a quarterback.😂

Even better scouting!

[jgvol]

Holy cow......Will Campbell last night became just the second LSU OL ever taken in the first round, joining Alan Faneca. 

And that's despite a slew of guys who had good careers, and several like Whitworth, McClure, Mawae and some others who were great. 

We're not exactly OLU, I guess. 

That's actually hard to believe.