The 2025 NFL Draft is just one day away! With this intriguing draft class, fans and analysts alike have been drawing comparisons between these draft prospects and other well-known players. Who do some of this class’s brightest stars remind us of? NFL Network’s Bucky Brooks gives his five best comps.
Top 5 NFL Draft Player Compairisons
The NFL Network’s Bucky Brooks dropped five 2025 NFL Draft player comps, and each one is worth the price of admission.
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While college football fans already have a good grasp on some of the talented athletes’ skill sets as they get drafted into the NFL, some might be wondering who reminds us of who.
CB/WR Travis Hunter, Colorado: WR Justin Jefferson/CB Trevon Diggs
Brooks also tabbed Hunter as his No. 1 receiver in the draft class, saying he “displays exceptional ball skills and hand-eye coordination, regularly making dazzling catches on the perimeter.” Brooks also views Hunter as a talented coverman with ball-hawking abilities.
Since entering the league as the No. 22 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, Jefferson’s racked up more receiving yards (7,432) than anyone else. Diggs has 20 interceptions over that same span. He was a first-team Associated Press (AP) All-Pro in 2021.
EDGE Abdul Carter, Penn State: EDGE Micah Parsons
Brooks speaks highly of the Nittany Lions standout, saying he’s “the gold standard as an agile athlete with exceptional first-step quickness and closing burst. A speed-rushing phenom with outstanding balance and body control, (he) has the potential to single-handedly transform a defense as a disruptive force.”
Parsons, a fellow former Penn Stater, is a three-time AP All-Pro and has 52.5 career sacks.
QB Cam Ward, Miami: QB Steve McNair
Cam Ward is a “talented signal-caller with the tools to develop into a Pro Bowl-caliber playmaker in the NFL,” Brooks said. “As a gunslinger with supreme confidence and limitless range … (he) expands the offensive playbook with his skills.”
McNair played all but two seasons of his 13-year NFL career with the franchise that figures to draft Ward, the Tennessee Titans. McNair was the co-NFL AP MVP in 2003.
RB Ashton Jeanty, Boise State: RB Frank Gore
Jeanty, Brooks said, “is an A-1 playmaker with the instincts, contact balance, strength and speed to ignite an offense as a feature back.
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A big-play machine with impact potential as a runner and receiver, the Boise State standout is the go-to guy every offensive coordinator covets in the backfield.”
Gore enjoyed a 16-year NFL odyssey, spending over half of it with the San Francisco 49ers. He ranks third all-time in rushing yards (16,000).
TE Tyler Warren, Penn State: TE George Kittle
Brooks labels Warren as a “big-bodied playmaker with positional flexibility. A former high school quarterback with outstanding running skills and versatility, the Penn State star is a non-traditional ‘Y’ tight end with big-play potential.”
Entering his ninth NFL go-round, the productive Kittle has put up four 1,000-yard receiving seasons with the 49ers.
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