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The 5 Most Overlooked Wide Receivers in the 2025 NFL Draft

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5774 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The 5 Most Overlooked Wide Receivers in the 2025 NFL Draft


(Data source credits: Player Profiler - PFF)

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0:00.0

Everyone is talking about Travis Hunter and Tet McMillan as the top wide receivers in this year's

0:04.5

draft class. And they should be, but there's a receiver in this class who just put up 1,200 yards and 14

0:09.0

touchdowns and no one's talking about it. And there's multiple guys like this in this draft class.

0:13.2

I'm going to talk about five of them today. These guys are going completely overlooked and they

0:16.6

shouldn't be. And we're going to start with Isaiah Bond out of Texas, and this guy is, oh, so polarizing. He's a 5-11, 180-pound wide receiver, and the reason why he's sole polarizing is for a few reasons.

0:25.8

He was injured in college, and the big one more recently.

0:28.0

At the NFL Combine, he said he was going to set the 40-time record, and he didn't.

0:31.2

He ran in the 4-4s, which is good, but not setting the record. He then had a second attempt at the 40 time, and as you can see on player profiler right here, he ran a 4-39-40 time. Once again, fantastic. Then he goes out at his pro day more recently. He runs into

0:42.5

four-threes again. It was a low four-threes, four-three-five, depending on the reports that you were

0:47.8

looking at. So all of this is showing us that this is a really fast player, people are just anchored on the fact that he said he was going to break the record and he didn't.

0:56.7

But if you actually want to look at some other things here that he did at the combine,

0:57.5

he goes out there.

1:02.1

And according to Nash talks Texas on Twitter, you can see he runs a 24 and a half mile per hour on the gauntlet drill, which is like actually going out there and catches passes,

1:05.3

trying to simulate real football speed. And his, I was going to say his teammate, but he actually transferred there this past year. So Xavier Worthy, who also played at Texas, the fastest white receiver ever to attend

1:14.3

the combine, ran a slower gauntlet time. So Bond is faster than him in the gauntlet time. Now,

1:17.9

we're talking by splits of seconds here, but it's just to show you that like his 40 time wasn't

1:22.0

bad. His gauntlet drill was good. This is a very fast and explosive player, but there's obviously more to it than that when you're coming to the NFL as a receiver.

1:28.1

Let's move forward into the next piece of this puzzle, and it's going to be his production.

1:31.8

He started his first two years at Alabama.

1:33.6

He didn't do much in 2022.

1:35.1

It was a loaded wide receiver room, really hard to put up numbers.

1:37.6

But then in 2023, he actually stood out here in 77 targets competing against some top talents as well, a 24% target share while

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