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With training camps opening around the NFL, scouts and team evaluators are back at work and conducting preseason studies on draft prospects for the 2025 NFL Draft. Some evaluators started watching 2025 prospects in May, while others waited until this time of year to familiarize themselves with some of the players in their territory. In…

Prospects Generating Some Preseason Buzz Part 1 With training camps opening around the NFL, scouts and team evaluators are back at work and starting to do preseason studies on draft prospects for the 2025 NFL Draft. Some evaluators started watching 2025 prospects back in May, while others wait until this time of year to get…

Entering the 2024 season, Colorado cornerback/wide receiver Travis Hunter is one of the top prospects for the 2025 NFL Draft. Since being the top player in the nation as a high schooler, Hunter has played at a high level at Jackson State and with the Buffalos last season. Last season, Hunter had 31 tackles with…

Jets, Broncos, Raiders turned down 2025 1st Round Pick Just about every year in the NFL Draft, some huge trades are offered but never come to fruition. This past April, one of those deals was out there but declined. League sources say an NFC team offered their 2025 first-round pick to the New York Jets…

Certain positions, including linebackers, are unlikely to be drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft. Thus, many good linebackers are pushed lower to a second-day projection. One linebacker who has impressed advanced scouts for the 2025 NFL Draft is Utah’s Lander Barton. After LSU linebacker Harold Perkins, Barton came out with a high…

The 2024 NFL Draft produced an excellent crop of offensive tackle talent. Nine offensive linemen went in the first round, with six offensive tackles selected in the top 20. Looking ahead to the 2025 NFL Draft, there are a decent number of linemen with early-round projections, but it does not look as strong for first-round…

During the spring months, NFL teams have their advance scouts visiting colleges for junior days and looking at the tape of the last season to put together a watch list for the next NFL Draft. The preseason watch lists are shared with the teams that are part of National Football Scouting or the Blesto scouting…

In the early projections for the 2025 NFL Draft, many have projected Tennessee edge rusher James Pearce Jr. as the top non-quarterback prospect. Pearce created a lot of pressure on the quarterback while amassing 9.5 sacks and two forced fumbles. While Pearce definitely has high first-round potential, the NFL advance scouts had some defenders graded…

Recently, I reported that NFL advance scouts had Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders as the highest-graded quarterback prospect on their preseason watch list. However, some in the media have projected other quarterback prospects to go higher than Sanders, with those potential candidates including Georgia’s Carson Beck, Texas’s Quinn Ewers, and Penn State’s Drew Allar. The advance NFL…