2025 OT preview … The 2024 draft was the best ever for the OTs as 7 players from the position – which tied the all-time high for the position set originally in 2002 – were selected in this past April’s opening round, including 5 within the first 18 picks overall, while a total of 14 OTs were taken in the first three rounds, which was a new high for the position. And while it appears that will also be some very good OTs available this coming April, they have a long way to go to match this past year’s crop at the position. That said, Will Campbell of LSU certainly looks all the part of a top 5-10 prospect for 2025, although he doesn’t appear to have quite the pedigree of the likes of John Alt, the top selected this past April. In fact, its not clear that Campbell has the same pedigree of Texas’ Kelvin Banks, who has quite literally been an AA LT since he stepped on campus in Austin. However, Banks, at barely 6-4 and without real long arms, lacks prototype OT length and could drop out of the top 10 as teams may think of him more as a RT or even OG candidate. In fact, Campbell and Banks are currently the only OTs considered to be first-round locks, although there is a significant number of other prospects at the position with either late first round or second day potential including Campbell’s LSU teammate Emory Jones, Jonah Savaiiaea of Arizona, Josh Simmons of Ohio State, Josh Conerly of Oregon, Jack Nelson of Wisconsin, Josh Gray of Oregon State, Blake Miller of Clemson and the Texas A&M duo of Reuben Fatheree and Trey Zuhn. At the same time in something of a rarity, there is decent chance that an OT from the Ivy League is selected by the end of the second day as 6-8, 315-pound Jalen Travis of Princeton, a good athlete who hales from afamily of basketball players, is one of the leading FCS prospects for the upcoming draft. Here is a preliminary list of the top OTs likely to be available for the 2025 draft.
