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Here’s our Top 100 big board from analyst Derrick Bell:
Two-way Superstar and naturally gifted athlete with exceptional ball skills and innate spatial awareness. Hunter is a highly intelligent, well-conditioned athlete with game-breaking ability and true All-Pro potential at two different positions. Regardless of his preferred positional path, he’s a franchise-altering centerpiece that could become the new barometer for the term generational prospect in the NFL Draft.
Lightning-quick speed rusher with an astonishing blend of suddenness and burst up the arc, with a skill set that is developing at a rapid pace given his age and snaps playing this position. Carter operates at 1.5x speed on the football field, can run under a table at full speed and improved his hand usage as the season went on. He’s slightly undersized but he’s one of the true blue chip prospects in this class because of his frenetic energy and limitless potential.
Dominant workhorse with a low center of gravity and the capacity to sequence moves together in quick succession. Jeanty has all the necessary traits of a difference making running back: amazing vision, elite contact balance and good short area burst. So long as his body continues to withstand the mileage, it’s easy to imagine a reality in which he becomes one of the more unstoppable ball carriers that we’ve seen in quite some time.
Franchise tackle with a dense frame, excellent body control out in space and S-tier finishing ability to make sure defenders feel his presence every snap. In pass pro, Membou can stonewall guys with his punches, displays good balance throughout the rep and has the requisite foot quickness to redirect to shut down counters inside. His hands can be both late and wide on contact, but this is a foundational piece that you can build your run game around.
Blindside protector with incredibly light feet getting into his pass sets and flashes of advanced independent hand usage to keep opponents off balance. His anchor improved in 2024 by staying grounded on contact, is hyper-aware to recognize stunts along the defensive line and can be a real weapon on screens. A significant torn patella injury cut his breakout season short, but left tackles with this level of explosiveness are universally coveted around the league.
Matchup nightmare that plays with urgency in how he bursts off the ball to frighten defenders while also displaying the body control to make difficult mid-flight adjustments to the ball. To put it bluntly, Loveland is always open because of his fluidity and how well he can sink his hips, making...
