2025 NFL draft All-Film team: 11 prospects with upside - ESPN

The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the tulips are beginning to bloom. That means one thing: The NFL draft is here.

You already know the big names in this class: Cam Ward, Travis Hunter and Abdul Carter. Plenty has been written on them already, and plenty more will be before the draft cycle ends. This piece isn't about them: It's about the rest of the class below them.

Throughout this past NFL season, I regularly updated my All-Film team rankings to include players who weren't necessarily dominating in fantasy or even advanced metrics, but who were playing well and deserved their shine. For the 2025 draft class, I wanted to do the same exercise. This is meant to highlight those players who jumped off the screen to me, though they may not have the name recognition that some first-round names with gaudier résumés enjoy.

Some positions were easy (linebacker, defensive tackle). Some positions had so many names I struggled to choose (wide receiver, cornerback). To split the hairs, I tried to identify the players whose tape I trust the most — players who have the film of NFL contributors despite red flags elsewhere on their résumés. This is the All-Film team for the 2025 draft.

Jump to a position:
QB | RB | WR
TE | OT | IOL | IDL
EDGE | LB | CB | S

Let's get the elephant out of the room early: Shough is 25 years old and will turn 26 in September. He'll turn 26 before Trevor Lawrence does, which is absurd until you remember they were in the same recruiting class. Lawrence was in college for three seasons; Shough was in college for seven.

I struggle to calibrate to older quarterback prospects. The general rule of NFL talent is that if you have it, it's obvious after a couple years of college football — that the best