MOST UNDERRATED Players of 2025 NFL Draft Class

First Draft

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Welcome back to "First Draft"! Field Yates and Mel Kiper Jr. give us their most underrated players of the 2025 NFL Draft. 00:00 Welcome to First Draft! 1:14 Most underrated players in 2025 NFL Draft 1:43 UCF RB RJ Harvey 4:02 Miami WR Xavier Restrepo 6:55 Restrepo compared to Amon-Ra St. Brown 10:14 Utah State WR Jalen Royals 13:27 Georgia RB Trevor Etienne 16:58 Syracuse TE/HB Oronde Gadsden II 20:32 Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel 22:50 Would the Cardinals or Dolphins be a good fit for Gabriel? 24:00 Indiana DT C.J. West 26:41 Tennessee DT Omar Norman-Lott 28:23 Ole Miss LB Chris Paul Jr. 30:04 California CB Noel Williams 31:53 Virginia S Jonas Sanker 33:36 Ohio State LB Cody Simon 36:28 Orange Crushers! 36:54 Georgia Tech TE Jackson Hawes 39:54 North Dakota State OL Grey Zabel 43:40 Thank you for watching! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.9	There's late round steals in every draft, and we are here to find them.
0:50.1	Mel Kuiper and I break down the most underrated players in the 2025 NFL draft. That's coming up.
0:50.8	Plus, we're responding to your questions, your takes, and your draft dreams as first draft starts right now.
0:59.4	Hello and welcome into first drafts. I am Field Yates. He is Mel Kuiper Jr. We are live twice a week every Monday and Thursday afternoon.
1:08.1	Of course, on the NFL on ESPN YouTube channel, and wherever you get your
1:12.5	podcast. Plus, as of this week, on ESPN2 on Monday, and check out our Monday episode in the
1:21.1	entire first rap playlist over on that YouTube channel. There is so much to get into but today Mel we are focusing specifically
1:29.3	on the most underrated and overlooked players in the entire NFL draft class you probably have
1:35.8	seen some incredible hidden gems throughout your 47 years are doing this oh my gosh field it's amazing
1:42.2	how many players that you overlook or underrate or you see that they're not getting enough national publicity for whatever reason.
1:48.8	And it's usually when you talk about the number one position is running back.
1:52.8	Because we've always talked about the Aaron Jones is out of U-TEP, get into the fifth round.
1:56.6	Even a priest Holmes goes undrafted out of Texas.
1:59.1	And he ends up being a heck of an NFL player,
2:01.1	right?
2:01.5	Isaiah Pacheco, Super Bowl running back at a Rutgers seventh round pick.
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