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Last year at this time, the 2025 CB class had three outstanding prospects – Travis Hunter (Colorado), Will Johnson (Michigan), and Benjamin Morrison – that were considered potential Top 10 picks. Injuries suffered by Johnson and Morrison caused them to fall in last April’s draft but all three players remain top prospects. The 2026 CB class looks to have plenty of depth but there are no prospects that rank nearly as high as Hunter, who was drafted second overall by the Jaguars

From the vantage point of mid-August, the 2026 LB class may be one of the better classes to enter the NFL in the last decade with as many as a half dozen off the ball and inside LBs grading out as first-round picks, and that is not including Suntarine Perkins (Ole Miss) and Harold Perkins (LSU), who’s best skills are rushing the passer but project as LBs on early run downs in the NFL due to size concerns. Unfortunately for these athletes, the NFL Draft values LBs less than th

The quality of the 2026 defensive tackles and 5Ts (3-4 DE) pales in comparison to the prospects that NFL teams hauled from last year’s draft. There is neither the top end quality nor the depth that characterized the 2025 IDL class. But that does not mean there are not any IDL that look like potential starters or important depth pieces in the NFL next year. There is likely to be two or three IDL who will be selected in the first-round of the 2026 NFL Draft.

The 2026 Edge Rusher class looks to be on par with last year’s class, if not even slightly better, although there does not figure to be any prospects that are likely to grade out as highly as Penn State’s Abdul Carter (Giants). However, as many as a half dozen prospects could earn first round grades by the time the 2026 NFL Draft rolls around next April and the depth should provide NFL contributors even late on day three and into free agency.

The 2025 NFL Draft provided a deep and talented class of prospects that should provide several long-term NFL starters including Grey Zabel (Seattle), Donovan Jackson (Minnesota), Tyler Booker (Dallas), and Tate Ratledge (Detroit). The potential top center (OC) and guard (OG) prospects available next April may not be quite up to the level of the 2025 class.

The potential top OT prospects look to be similar in quality to last year’s class and should provide NFL teams with several starting caliber OTs next April, including a couple of players projected to be elite blindside protectors in the NFL. The depth at OT should provide teams with potential starters available on days two and three of the draft next spring. This class is stocked with big and long levered OTs who check the boxes from a physical specimen stand point.

The 2025 NFL Draft offered one of the best and deepest groups of TEs to enter the league in memory as Colston Loveland (Chicago) and Tyler Warren (Indianapolis) were selected in the first round and twelve were drafted across seven rounds. The prospective top TEs available for next April’s draft may not offer a single player who grades out as a first-round pick. But several prospects look like eventual NFL starters or at least as quality backup TEs.

The majority of the top WR prospects in college football this season figure to be sophomores who only left high school prior to the 2024 season and are therefore not available this next April. Jeremiah Smith (Ohio State), Ryan Williams (Alabama), Cam Coleman (Auburn), TJ Moore and Bryant Wesco (Clemson), Ryan Wingo (Texas), and Nick Marsh (Michigan State) are all potential first round picks, but no sooner than the 2027 NFL Draft.

The 2025 RB class is one of the best group of prospects to enter the NFL in the last two decades. Unfortunately, the 2026 class does not look like it has as much elite, top end talent nor the depth of last April’s class. This class is unlikely to offer a Top 10 prospect like Ashton Jeanty, who was selected by Las Vegas with the sixth pick last spring, but there a few prospects who may warrant first round consideration with a quality season this fall.

After a down year for the QB position in the NFL Draft, the prospective top upper classmen signal callers could be a bounce back class that delivers several potential franchise QBs to NFL teams in need next April. Although there is no clear-cut leader in this class, there are several prospects that have the combination of physical tools, mental makeup, and game experience to be drafted first overall next year.

Saturday (Day 3) of the NFL Draft is where a team builds depth, selects their kickers and punters (and hey, even a long snapper!), and sometimes even finds a diamond in the rough.

Shedeur Sanders has fallen out of the first three rounds of the 2025 NFL Draft. How far will he wall down the draft board and how many other QBs go before him (McCord, Leonard, Howard)? Saturday's draft is drama packed!

Night one of the 2025 NFL Draft concluded with the shocking (to some) fall out of the first round of Shedeur Sanders. The Colorado Buffaloes QB had an inconsistent post season where his interviews left many teams frustrated with his maturity level and his game film left many scouts scratching their heads. Sanders' processing is very slow and he typically waits for the receiver to break open before throwing the ball - and that just does not work at the NFL level. So, where doe

The SNS 2025 BIG BOARD 300 is the final rankings of the best 300 draft-worthy prospects available in this weekend's draft, which will select 257 prospects in seven rounds over the three-day event.

The Comprehensive Eligibility Tracking database (CET) is the scouting industry's only formalized attempt to build a complete list of all prospects in the 2025 draft.

Omarion Hampton / RB / North Carolina The 2025 NFL Scouting Combine’s top offensive prospects wrapped up the festivities on Friday (TEs) and Saturday with the skill position prospects – QB, RB, and WR - working out and concluded with the ‘big uglies” (OTs and IOL) participating in activities on Sunday afternoon. SNS observed the drills, on-field exercises, and reviewed the measurements. Here are a few observations gathered on the defensive prospects assembled in Indianapolis.

Nick Emmanwori / S / South Carolina The 2025 NFL Scouting Combine’s top defensive prospects kicked off the festivities on Thursday with the defensive linemen – EDGE and IDL prospects – and LB prospects working out and concluded with defensive backs (CBs and safeties) participating in activities on Friday. SNS observed the drills, on-field exercises, and reviewed the measurements. Here are a few observations gathered on the defensive prospects assembled in Indianapolis. IDL

Mason Graham / IDL / Michigan The 2025 SNS Scouting Reports Database is NOW LIVE!! With over 200 scouting reports in the initial release...

Jordan Clark / CB / Notre Dame The 2025 NFL Scouting Combine is scheduled to take place in Indianapolis from Thursday, February 27th through Sunday, March 2nd and it will feature a total of 329 prospects that have been invited to be measured, interviewed, tested, and perform a series of on-field exercises and drills (such as the 40-yard dash, vertical jump, broad jump, short shuttle, long shuttle, bench press, and the three-cone drill), over the course of four days in the wor

Cam Skattebo / RB / Arizona State The 2025 NFL Scouting Combine has invited 339 college prospects to Indianapolis, Indiana from February 27 to March 2nd to have their official measurements taken, work out in several time and measured drills, on-field skill assessments, medical evaluations, and team interviews in preparation for the NFL Draft in April. QB Cam Ward / Miami, Fl Max Brosmer / Minnesota Brady Cook / Missouri Jaxson Dart / Ole Miss Quinn Ewers / Texas Dillon Gabrie