[Abe Sargent]

The 2025 NFL Amateur Draft!

We are going to slow roll this

The first pick is RB Ellis Phillips of Auburn, to the Eagles

The players I was looking at, OT Bart McKnight, the two CBs, and more are all off the board. Three corners, 2 RBS, 2 QBs, DT, and S. McKnight went the pick before mine, Stupid Bucs!

I like DE Cornelius Watkins, SS Larry Shaw, FS Rico Akers, Burtner are all solid S. . If I wanted I could take CB Damon Comstock really, really earlier than I thought – 4th best Cb on the board. CB Ian Ridely? OT Malik Stimpson, who has low endurance but everything else? DT Kenny Shaw looks sick, but I don’t need another DT>

Hmmmmm…

When it doubt, trade back.

There is a heavy D Back draft, but too many went in the first 10. And yet folks I like aren’t here either

The 1.11 is worth 1250.

The 1.20 is 850. So I could get 400 points by dropping back 10 spots That;s enough for a high 2nd. For example, I could likely trade from 11.1 to 1.18 or 1.19 for someone’s future 2nd. Which would mean I only have traded one future 2 and my RB for this pick, and gotten 2 4s and this player

Seems like a good, deal, right?

I make an offer for 17th, future 2nd. That’s a drop of 300 points, but no dice. 300 is the 60th pick, back of the 2nd. I could just toss out a a 4th I trade dfor to make it work.

I trade:

My 1.11, 4.1 this year for

Steelers at 1.17, and their 2nd in 2027, two years from now

The Steelers grab S Rico Akers.

Then Stimpson, CB Comstock, DT Shaw, RB Farley and….RB Hernandez head off the clock…

And I still have these two great Safeties there.

Shaw: 4.42 dash, red agility blue strength, red pos spec 57,, hard to read, potential affinity. 13 volatility. 16% developed though

OR

Burtner – 2 reds, 1 blue. 37% dev, 71 volatility.


Now I could trade back again. I’m at 1.17. I could trade from here at 950 to about 1.30 or so and probably get another future 2nd. But shaw is good. He seems really, really strong. And bonus – jhe;s with an affinity!

I take Shaw

S Burtner goes 1.20 to the Saints

I;m watching four players very closely at 1.32, WR Chuck Jennings look pretty good. He;s falling, and would be a great pick up. There is LB McWilliams, arguably th best LB in the draft still on the board, and the 2nd is right behind and up there. And DE Parmely, a potential future DE star.


WR Chuck Jennings 1.30 to Pack1.29 WLB McWilliams

That leaves me at

1.32 MLB Dean Steinberg? DE Everett Parmely

As a reminder, I don’t have a 2nd this year. I have 1 4th lefts, 2 5ths.

This is not a draft where I need depth. So I was okay trading my extra 4th.

Hm….

Where am I looking? Who appeals to me?

Parmely. He might be my replacement for Stanton. He;s hard to read, 22% developed, the top DE on the board, This guy is a pass rush specialist. 3 blues one red.

I go Parmely . In previous years, I would have snagged LB Steinberg.

There are a few players I’m watching in two. TE Colton Seifert? OT Tubbs? OT Lane?

They all make it out. Of the 2nd round

Seifert goes 3.2. The last good TE in the draft. Tubbs goes 3 20. Is Lane falling?

So it’s my pick at 3.32. Two player I like. OT Lane – nocombine, looks to have good bars

The other is a WR that fell, Earl Boothroyd. Now Boothroyd might be a bust – combines don’t back up bars, high volatility. But there’s no combine for Lane at all to compare to. And Boothroyd has better bars than Lane…..

I’m not getting a good WR later. Might get a good OT later.

So I grab Boothroyd.

Lane feels good though. Could I trade my 4th up to take it? I’d probably have to package a future 6th? What I do instead if offer a future fourth from 2027 when I have 3 other 4ths and my 6th from 2027 as well. I grab Lane at the 107


The end of the 4th arrives. I take LB Randall Yockey, a 3-4 ILB

I have 2 picks in the 5th – 5.26 and 5.32,

No center has been taken yet. There are some good ones. Bu tI have three.

I offer C Schnebele for a trade o the Bills, Bears, Saints or Skins for their…..

I send Chicago’s 5th rounder and C Schnebele to the Bears for their 3rd in 3026.

I then take the top C in the draft, Marcos Henson. It’s not often you get a 6.0 rated player this deep into the draft not called a P or K. I then take a CB for depth

6th? I have a potential TE I want to take. Pat Reid, 2 rends, ad two blues. This deep. Maybe he I sa grower?

7th – RB Raul Lindsay depth and nice bars

Amateur Draft Report:

Rnd 1 - Everett Parmely, DE, Southern California
Rnd 1 - Larry Shaw, S, Brigham Young
Rnd 3 - Earl Boothroyd, WR, Kansas
Rnd 4 - Mercury Lane, T, North Carolina State
Rnd 4 - Randall Yockey, ILB, Portland State
Rnd 5 - Marcos Henson, C, Northwestern
Rnd 5 - Clayton Nixon, CB, Louisville
Rnd 6 - Pat Reid, TE, Prairie View A&M
Rnd 7 - Raul Lindsay, RB, Houston