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Good morning, New York Giants fans! Happy Saturday and welcome to “Week 0” of the 2025 college football season.
Thats right. We have two weeks to wait before the Giants will take the field against the Washington Commanders, but that doesn’t mean we’re without football. The college football season kicks off today, and we even get a matchup between ranked opponents.
We’ll take a look at that game, as well as use Dane Brugler’s initial Top 50 prospects to highlight some players the Giants might want to pay attention to this year.
ESPN – noon
K-State finished the 2024 as an unranked team with a 9-4 record, but expectations are rising as quarterback Avery Johnson enters his junior season. Johnson was a four-star recruit and received offers from Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Arizona State, but decided to stay in Kansas. He’s a dynamic dual threat quarterback who’s looking to take the next step forward in his development as a passer.
Iowa State, meanwhile, finished second in the Big12 with an 11-3 record and won last year’s meeting between these two teams 29-21. The Cyclones lost a fair amount of talent to the NFL draft last year, but QB (and Pop Tarts Bowl MVP) Rocco Becht is returning for his red-shirt Junior campaign. Iowa State has a habit of punching well out of their weight class, making the most of overlooked recruits, and scheming up frustrating defenses, so the Cyclones could surprise this year.
Both of these teams are well worth keeping tabs on this year.
After watching the Giants through camp and preseason, I still think their major areas of need next year will (likely) be offensive tackle, wide receiver, and cornerback. We’re still a long way out from the end of the 2025 season, let alone the 2026 NFL Draft, so there’s plenty of time for players to emerge and ascend. But as things stand now, this looks like a weaker class for wide receivers and corners (five each in Brugler’s Top 50), but a relatively strong class for offensive tackles (10 in his Top 50)
Note: Like last year, this could be a good year for defensive tackles and edge defenders.
We’ll start up front.
Spencer Fano (8th) and Caleb Lomu (15th
(Utah)
The two Utes should be one of the, if not the, foremost tackle duos in college football this year. Todd McShay mocked Fano to the Giants third overall in his “Appropriately Early” mock draft this year, and I could see the team looking hard at both players depending on where they finish. Fano will likely be the more highly drafted of the two, but Lomu has a high ceiling as well.
Kadyn Proctor (Alabama, 3rd)
I’m going to admit, I’m a skeptic where Proctor is concerned. Not because he’s an Alabama offensive lineman, but because I’ve become a believer that it’s possible to be too big to play...
