Rivals.com Nationwide Recruiting Director Adam Gorney and Nationwide Recruiting Analyst Sam Spiegelman don’t all the time see eye to eye. On this version of Rival Views, the 2 debate whether or not there’s one other five-star receiver within the 2025 class after watching two days of Navy All-American Bowl follow.
This isn’t a tough “no” as a result of that will be bucking historic NFL Draft developments and the truth that this class has loads of high quality depth at receiver. I’m simply unsure I see a ton of future first-round picks among the many group although they’re very gifted gamers.
Ultimately, although, we are going to in all probability chew the bullet and take some photographs on elite high-end four-stars to make them five-stars within the final rankings cycle as a result of we do have some wiggle room with solely 28 five-stars proper now (we attempt to get to 32 to reflect the primary spherical of the draft) and there are some gamers that might make an argument.
Of the gamers I’ve seen in San Antonio via two follow days, I’d say Texas signee Kaliq Lockett has been one of the best of the bunch. However I haven’t been offered on fellow Texas signee Jaime Ffrench so we’re proper again to the place we began with two.
I’m not an enormous fan of awarding gamers who skipped the all-star video games and giving them a rankings bump however I additionally need to get the rankings as correct as doable and Ole Miss signee Caleb Cunningham and Texas A&M signee Jerome Myles is perhaps five-stars – in the event that they’d simply present up someplace and run routes.
There shall be loads of names to think about in our closing rankings however having simply two five-star receivers appears very low contemplating there have been seven, 4, six, 5 and 6 taken within the first spherical of the final 5 NFL Drafts.
The Navy All-American Bowl is filled with gifted broad receivers making compelling instances for his or her fifth star. At the moment, there are solely two five-star receivers within the 2025 class together with Jaime Ffrench, who has had a number of massive moments in San Antonio within the closing in-person analysis earlier than Rivals’ closing class rankings.
There’s nearly no query there shall be at the very least yet another broad receiver added to that five-star group with Ohio State signee Quincy Porter and Texas signee Kaliq Lockett each making robust instances to hitch the membership.
Porter has excellent measurement to play on the perimeter with implausible ball expertise and he’s fared very properly in reside competitors. Lockett had an insanely productive junior marketing campaign and in the course of the All-American Bowl has been stellar in opposition to elite competitors, in place exercises and in reside motion.
While you take into consideration different elite receivers like CJ Wiley and Caleb Cunningham I really like the possibilities of some extra receivers incomes their fifth stars.
