Nearly everybody appears to agree that Ashton Jeanty from Boise State College is the highest working again prospect on this yr’s NFL draft class.
However there doesn’t appear to be a transparent consensus on how the opposite prospects at that place rank.
Chris Simms ranked the highest 5 working backs who will go on this month’s draft, and he ranked them in three completely different tiers.
Chris Simms 2025 draft RB rankings:
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Jeanty is predicted to go fairly excessive within the draft, and he’s thought to have true star potential.
He ran for two,601 yards and 29 touchdowns final season, and a few have even in contrast him to LaDainian Tomlinson, the Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer who as soon as scored a beastly 28 dashing touchdowns in 2006 for the then-San Diego Chargers.
Omarion Hampton from the College of North Carolina has a little bit extra measurement at six toes tall, and with 1,660 dashing yards and 15 dashing touchdowns final season, he was named to the All-ACC first staff.
The second tier, in response to Simms, consists of starters who might turn out to be superstars, and it consists of RJ Harvey and Bhayshul Tuten.
On the College of Central Florida, Harvey ran for 1,577 yards and 22 touchdowns in 2024, whereas Tuten had 1,159 dashing yards and 15 dashing touchdowns in 2024.
In Simms’ “home-run hitter” third tier is TreVeyon Henderson from Ohio State College, who posted 1,016 dashing yards and 10 touchdowns final season whereas serving to the Buckeyes win the School Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship.
In his freshman yr at Ohio State, Henderson broke the college’s file for many touchdowns from scrimmage in a single season with 19.
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