10 college football teams with most 2025 NFL draft prospects - ESPN

The first week of the 2024 college football season is less than a month away, and NFL draft evaluators are already making plans to visit schools. Over the next five months, scouts and front office execs will hit the road to watch prospects, talk to coaches and begin building their boards for the class of 2025. But which schools will they visit most?

We picked the 10 programs most stacked with 2025 prospects. These are the schools that will likely send the most players to the pros next April — and the ones you should watch closely over the next few months. We sorted them into three tiers, in which we considered the number of draft prospects overall and how many of those playmakers will be first-rounders. We also picked an under-the-radar bonus school to watch.

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Under the radar

Top prospect to know: Mykel Williams, Edge
Sleeper prospect to watch: Jared Wilson, C
Game circled on the schedule: at Texas, Oct. 19

Georgia is again loaded with NFL talent starting with quarterback Carson Beck, who could go No. 1 in the upcoming draft. Beck has prototypical size at 6-foot-4, 230 pounds and finished his first season as a starter with 3,941 passing yards, 24 touchdowns and six interceptions. He tied for the nation's quickest release time last season at 2.38 seconds and completed 72.4% of his passes (fourth best).

«Think [Jared] Goff coming out of Cal. They have a lot of similarities,» said an NFC southeast area scout responsible for scouting Georgia.

Williams, meanwhile, enters the season as the No. 1 overall player on my preseason board. The 6-foot-5, 265-pound edge rusher is an NFL-ready defender, and switching from defensive end to outside linebacker this season should provide him more