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Next week, all of the top prospects in the 2025 NFL Draft will be in one central location: The NFL Combine in Indianapolis, for the biggest job interview of their lives. Teams will get face time with the players of their choosing, athletes have another massive opportunity to showcase their talent and fans get their first real glimpse of the positional groups that the Pittsburgh Steelers are prioritizing in the draft.
Will they go back to the well in the trenches, flip to the defensive side of the ball or nab a playmaker offensively? While obviously not a final declaration, we’ll have more clarity very soon.
For as much as people poke fun at the “underwear olympics”, the athletic testing portion of this event does indeed matter, granted more for some teams than others. Every year, it seems like there are a few electrifying performances from athletic freaks that set social media ablaze.
With that in mind, let’s discuss several interesting 2025 NFL Draft prospects at positions of need that could light it up on the turf and draw even more attention from the Steelers brass.
Good luck finding a more unique prospect in this class than Savions Williams: a mega-sized wide receiver by trade who moonlights as a tailback and even threw a couple passes in 2024. Explosive is a suitable way to describe his game. As a route runner, he’s flexible for his size while also possessing impressive the burst to create yards after the catch by erasing tackling angles in the open field.
According to Bruce Feldman of The Athletic, Williams has a reported 40-inch vertical and if you want proof of that translating to the football field, go check out his leaping touchdown grab in which he mossed two UCF defenders this past season. With that being said, it’s obvious that there’s details lacking throughout his game and he’ll need to make strides individually to avoid falling into being solely viewed as a gadget player. The Steelers don’t have this archetype of player currently but part of me believes that it’s one they’re seeking in this year’s draft class.
TCU WR Savion Williams is a work in progress but while you wait on him to fine tune his game, just get the rock in his hands and watch him work.
Not too many 6036, 228 pounds dudes moving like this after the catch. pic.twitter.com/LWDEa4IgBn
— Derrick (@Steelers_DB) February 17, 2025
For as talented as this running back crop is at the top, it’s just as promising from a depth perspective. If you’re viewing prospects through the lens of acceleration and straight-line speed, Bayshul Tuten is as good as it gets. The Hokie tailback finished his college career with three straight seasons of double digit touchdowns, many of those via explosive plays on the perimeter. He’s shifty with the ball in his hands and has a good feel for finding cutback...
