Let’s put this outside: the Running Back class in the NFL design of 2025 has the potential to be special.
We will certainly run back at least one in the first round – Ashton Jeanty from Boise State – and could also see the UNC Omarion Hampton go in the first. But the concept position does not quite determine how good this class could be. We will probably see impact players and future starters who have been selected in the third day.
We only mention the consensus top 10 runners here, but there are many more than ten good runs in this class.
Also the voices in the top 10: DJ Giddens (Kansas State), Damien Martinez (Miami), Trevor Etienne (Georgia)
10. Ollie Gordon, Oklahoma State
Gordon was considered one of the best running in the country, together with Omar Hampton and Ashton Jeanty who enter the 2024 season. Unfortunately he was not Uble to follow his 1,700-Yard, 21-Touchdown performance and his stock received an important hit in the course of 2024.
Gordon is a large back (6-foot-1, 226 pounds) with a large power and solid contact balance. He does not have the speed or agility to be an off-tockle or cut-back runner, but he is difficult to stop when he can run North South.
9. Bhayshul Tutten, Virginia Tech
Tuten is a compact and dynamic runner that should not be underestimated.
He may not look that much on 5-foot-9, 206 pounds, but he is one of the fastest players in this design and a weapon with the ball in his hands. The speed of 4.32 seconds from Tuten appears on the field and more than half (54 more) of his total Yardage came to escape. He has the contact balance and the eyesight to find open field, and more than enough speed to break corners.
Tuten may not be a “bell-cow” back, but he can be an explosive weapon of the Pespeed for every attack that uses rear field rotation.
8. Devin Neal, Kansas
Devin Neal really needs the chance to appear as a starter at the NFL level, or at least as the lead in an active rotation. You have a solid size at 5-foot-11, 213 pounds, fantastic vision and great contact balance to go with good agility and start speed.
Neal is not as explosive as an athlete as a sum of the other runners in this year’s class, but he is also the type of runner for whom that is not great. I have ruins with a lot of patience and changes smooth speed to manipulate defenders before they tell a told corners and ankles.
He may not be a home threat or a banger among the tackles, but Neal must be a consistent producer for any team.
7. Cameron Skattebo, Arizona State
If there is one word to describe the game of Cam Skattebo, it is Probabry “Bloodyminded”. He is a tough, physical, determined runner who is incredibly difficult to get to the ground. He has a powerful lower body and Sems to enjoy the physical side of the game, looking for opportunities to punish defenders.
Skattebo is a limited athlete, but is patiently behind the line of scrimmage and has tones Marshawn Lynch as soon as he gets to work. It is not really a surprise that he became second in Yardage last year with 1,711 (as well as 21 touchdowns). He is ASO to pass catcher if an attack wants to force defensive backs to stop him (try).
6. Dylan Sampson, Tennessee
When you think of “running back”, you usually think of big bruisers and your opposing defenses will be submitted. Players such as Derek Henry, Mark Ingram or Leonard Fourette usually jump in.
Dylan Sampson is a lot of free, not that player on 5-foot-8, 200 pounds, but that did not stop him from carrying the SEC, hurrying and hurrying touchdowns. Sampson is very athletic and combines lightning -fast feet with VRY good view and contact balance. He is incredibly elusive and consistently manages to flow through a defense like water.
5. Kaleb Johnson, Iowa
Kaleb Johnson is a different intrigues to come back with a modern attack that guards distance.
He is a one-cut runner with prototypical size at 6-foot-1, 224 pounds and a ranging instinctive sense of the running position. I have to give a fantastic job to give his rulers time to establish blocks, as well as the use of his path and pace to manipulate defenders on the way to the line of scrimmage.
Johnson has the power and balance to ignore bad tackle attempts, as well as the ability to become lean and to convert good tackle attempts into near-miss. He should be a high -quality runner early in his career and a reliable option to keep an attack on schedule.
4. Quinshon Judkins, Ohio State
Judkins crossed Van Ole Miss prior to the start of the 2024 season, making it half a dynamic Backfield duo.
Judkins is a generalist with a good size (5-foot-11, 221 pounds), speed and strength. He has Angouch Agility and bursting to use spending cuts, as well as the toughness to hit or run these arm ramps. He has the potential to be a Elke-Down Bel-cow at the NFL level and is doing quite a lot of everything.
Judkins and Henderson can both be realistically seen as “RB3”, with their exact value in the eyes of the team that explores them. One of our voters actually had Judkins in second place.
3. Treeveyon Henderson, Ohio State
Treveyon Henderson is the other half of that duo of the state of Ohio and was an effective effective contrast to the punitive style of Judkins.
Henderson is much more of ‘scatback’ who, instead of power, acts speed, agility and spatted instead of power. He would vary a low volume -hard runner in Ohio State, only wears more than 160, but he made the most out of every occasion and on average 7.1 meters per Carry and amounted to 1,000 meters in 2024 if he goes to an A team that is willing to maximize his skills.
2. Omarion Hampton, North Carolina
Omarion Hampton would be comfortable “RB1” in almost any other design class. Hampton has prototypical size (5-foot-11, 221 pounds), good speed (4.46) and Burst (38-inch Vertical, 10-foot-10-wide jump). He has a great vision and balance and the ability to regularly contribute to the passing game. He was incredibly productive for UNC, with 3,164 Yards (5.9 per Carry) and 30 touchdowns in the past two years.
I have reality is a “complete package” in the Achterveld.
Hampton is a flexible athlete that can contribute to any down and distancy, and his team never feels that they have to get him off the field. The fact that Hampton is not RB 1 is not small for him, and he will be a terribly Good NFL player with Pro Bowl Upside.
I happen to have in the same design as our top that runs back …
1. Ashton Jeanty, Boise State
Even in a class This Good, Ashton Jeanty is apart. The top choice on every mood, he was not surprisingly our unanimous upper respect.
He has no incredible movement skills of Christian McCaffrey or the explosive athletics of Saquon Barkley. But what he has DOS is really incredible vision, contact balance and core power, as well as the speed and agility to take advantage of the smallest chance. He is not so “out-atohlete” opposite defenders, instead instead seems to reject the realities in which he can be tackled.
On 5-foot-8, 211 pounds Ashton Jeanty ran for 2,601 Yards last year, and 1,970 came from that After Contact. To put that in perspective, Omarion Hampton (our number 2 back) ran for 1,660 Yards total.
Jeanty is, simply put, one of the best football players in this design and the best back in an excellent class.
