2025 Draft Board: Defensive Backs

The below information I included in the QB draft board earlier in the week, I'm going to include it for every board, but it will be identical on each.

If you've ever read one of my draft board articles before then you have an idea of what you'll see below, but there is a slight change. If you haven't read them, quick explanation, I use stats, athletic testing, past performance from current pro players, and formulas to try and determine the chances a prospect in the current draft has at succeeding as a pro. In the past I used a "PSR", and an "A Met" and "S Met" to give every player a round grade. Now, it all comes down to a Score. The scores differ by position, so before each draft board I will put what the high score was between the 2020-2023 drafts at that position. And at the bottom you will see a small blurb I wrote up for each position.

NOTE: Unlike in season's past, with the addition of the Slot CB group, you will see a third board below. How I decided what players ended up on what board is simple: If a player received an undrafted grade on one board, but not the other, then they only show up on the board they received a "Day" grade on, if they got an undrafted grade on both boards, then I listed them on the board that they played the majority of their snaps at in college.

This will be updated as pro day results become available.

High Score for CB: 61.79

My CB Draft Board

High Score for Slot CB: 74.96

My Slot CB Draft Board

High Score for Safety: 99.88

My S Draft Board

Things worth noting:

-Same as with the Receivers, the Slot role is not a relegation, it's just a look at who could make their money playing out of the slot as a pro. And in this case, every Slot Corner also makes the CB board.

-I mentioned it with the Receiver board, Travis Hunter didn't run, had he, he would've shot up my board. And the fact that he is where he's at based on production alone while splitting time between two positions is ridiculous. If I was a GM, he'd be at the top of my board here, just like he would be at Receiver.

-I've become a huge fan of Zah Frazier, that's pretty obvious from the two CB boards, but Justin Walley is my Sleeper. Walley looked like a top Corner prospect after wrapping up his Freshman and Sophomore years, but his Junior year did not go to plan, his stock plummeted and he fell off the radar. He bounced back quite a bit his senior season, but is still flying relatively under the radar. He only ran his forty at the Combine, but the 4.40 he ran was impressive. I think he's going to be a starter, potentially day 1, as a pro.

-Watts and Emmanwori at the top of the Safety board only affirms what everyone else is saying. However, my numbers don't support the Malaki Starks love. If you look at the success rate board below you'll see that Day 3 isn't a killer though.

-Sleeper pick from the Safety group: Marques Sigle. He's a little undersized, but he's slightly bigger than Quandre Diggs who has carved out a solid career as a starting Safety. Sigle had pretty good college production, and then at the Combine he lit it up, but was overshadowed by Emmanwori's performance. Still, a 4.37 forty, 38" vertical, and 10'10" broad are thoroughly impressive.

I've been tracking the success rate of each position individually based on my grades from 2020-2022, and I'm going to include that for each position. It might help shine a light on some of my "things worth noting." No Slot Corner to work from since it's new this year, so no board for them below.

CB Success Rate

S Success Rate