• Travis Hunter stays a top-three prospect: Colorado‘s two-way star put collectively one other standout efficiency in his crew’s thrilling win over Baylor.
• Josaiah Stewart climbing the sting rusher rankings: The Michigan defender was excellent towards USC, propelling himself up the sting rusher draft board.
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Week 4 in faculty soccer gave us some big-time gamers stepping up in big-time video games. With loads of gamers making waves within the 2025 NFL Draft pool, listed below are a few of our prime standout performers.
Travis Hunter continues to solidify himself as a top-five prospect
Colorado’s do-it-all athlete Travis Hunter continues to impress – though the bar was already so excessive. This previous week towards Baylor, he recorded seven receptions for 130 yards and compelled the game-winning fumble as a cornerback in additional time. This week marked Hunter’s fourth straight 100-yard receiving sport. He now has the sixth-most receiving yards within the FBS at 472. For the season, Hunter has an 83.6 PFF receiving grade, an 86.3 run-defense grade and an 85.5 protection grade. He merely has absurd manufacturing and grades given his versatility.
He stays a top-three prospect within the 2025 NFL Draft, and I made the case for why I imagine Hunter ought to focus his major effort at cornerback within the NFL final week.
Josiah Stewart places on cross rush present
Even for a program as stacked as Michigan, it’s by no means simple to interchange all of the expertise they’ve misplaced to the draft in recent times. Heading into 2024, the Wolverines needed to substitute Braiden McGregor and Jaylen Harrell on the sting. One of the gamers they have been hoping would step into a type of spots was Stewart. The senior was a three-star edge recruit within the 2021 recruiting class who spent his first two seasons of school ball at Coastal Carolina. He transferred to Michigan previous to 2023 and performed nicely as a rotational edge rusher final season. This 12 months, he’s earned a full-time beginning spot, and his sport towards USC this previous week was his finest efficiency but. He recorded an elite 94.9 pass-rush grade with eight pressures, two sacks and a 31.4% pass-rush win proportion. He flashed top-50 potential along with his velocity rush talents this previous weekend.
Cade Klubnik’s redemption tour rides on
Over the final three years, Clemson’s former five-star quarterback recruit, Cade Klubnik, had not recorded a single-game passing grade above 72.2. However, over the past two weeks, he has recorded back-to-back elite passing grades above 90.0, together with this week towards N.C. State. It was a tough begin towards Georgia to start out the season, however Klubnik has settled in properly. He has recorded six big-time throws with no turnover-worthy performs over the past two video games, flashing good mobility to go together with some good arm expertise. His inventory was somewhat low after the UGA sport, however it’s trending again up now.
Kaleb Johnso and Kalel Mullings strengthen an already deep working again class
The 2025 working again class is loaded. We already know names like Ashton Jeanty, Omarion Hampton, Ollie Gordon II and Quinshon Judkins. Nonetheless, it looks like we’re including extra names to the checklist of potential prime 100 working backs each week. This week, we now have Iowa’s Kaleb Johnson and Michigan’s Kalel Mullings.
Johnson, a 6-foot and 225-pound junior, rushed for 206 yards with 136 yards after contact this weekend. He rushed for over 800 yards as a real freshman again in 2021, and after lacking a while resulting from damage final 12 months, he’s on tempo for his finest season but. His mix of velocity and energy at his measurement makes him powerful to deliver down at first contact and provides him the flexibility for explosive performs in area.
Mullings has had fairly the winding highway to discover a constant contributing position. The fifth-year senior was a four-star recruit and the 2019 Gatorade Player of the Year in Massachusetts. He was initially a linebacker, beginning his profession at Michigan in 2021 and 2022. He made the transfer to working again in 2023 and performed as a reserve whereas additionally enjoying particular groups. This 12 months, he’s incomes extra carries than ever, and he recorded profession highs in carries (17), speeding yards (159) and speeding touchdowns (two) this previous week towards USC. Due to his expertise at linebacker, he has a superb really feel for blocking and in the reduction of lanes whereas mixing that imaginative and prescient with a bruising, decided run type.
Another elite week from TE Harold Fannin Jr.
Bowling Green tight finish Harold Fannin Jr. regarded unguardable as soon as once more this week, recording his second straight receiving grade above 90.0 and his third straight sport with a receiving grade above 85.0. He hauled in eight catches for 145 receiving yards and one other landing this weekend. At 6-foot-4 and 230 kilos, he’s extra of the “huge slot” tight finish who has good explosiveness and robust arms to make a reputation for himself within the 2025 tight finish class.
LB Eric Gentry is constructing stable draft report as a senior
It has been a little bit of a journey for the sting/linebacker hybrid defender to change into a notable draft prospect as soon as once more, however right here we’re. The 6-foot-6 and 215-pound exterior linebacker earned an elite 90.7 pass-rush grade final season, and this previous sport towards Michigan earned a 92.5 run-defense grade. He began his profession at Arizona State, the place he was named to PFF’s 2021 Freshman All-American crew. His lighter-weight profile affected his play the next 12 months, so he transferred to USC. Over the final two years, he has change into extra snug along with his strengths and weaknesses, and he’s having his most constant season but. His distinctive measurables nonetheless current professionals and cons, however it’s good to see him enjoying his finest ball as a senior.