Touchdown Wire

● By Doug Farrar
While NFL coaches and players are preparing for the 2024 regular season, there are scouting departments in each facility, and area scouts throughout the country, who are working just as hard with their eventual evaluations of the 2025 draft class. That includes tape work, metric studies, and talking with those prospects and those around them. At Touchdown Wire, we’re also doing double duty with NFL player evaluation and deeper dives into the 2025 class — especially when the two seasons begin. Here’s one look at how the first round of the 2025 NFL draft might look, based on the talents of the prospects and the needs of the teams.

Top Players Not Included

These players appear in the top 32 of our

Consensus Big Board

, but do not show up in this mock.