NFL Draft Wide Receiver Prospect Rankings, Comps, Outlooks (Episode 853 with Evan Silva, Mike Renner, Adam Levitan)
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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva continue their NFL Draft Prospect series with CBS Sports’ Mike Renner by deep diving into the 2025 Wide Receiver class with lots of early to mid-round talent on offer.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Adam's disgust at seeing a 154lb WR ranked
- How far will Tet McMillan fall after his lack of studying habits emerge?
- Why Kyle Williams is surging up draft boards
- What was to blame for Luther Burden's big drop in production last year?
- Is Emeka Egbuka destined for similar success coming off the Ohio State Wide Receiver production line>
Timestamps:
2:11 - Travis Hunter
6:50 - Tetairoa “Tet” McMillan
10:38 - Luther Burden
14:03 - Matthew Golden
17:26 - Kyle Williams
19:35 - Emeka Egbuka
22:43 - Jayden Higgins
24:59 - Jaylin Noel
26:20 - Elic Ayomanor
29:23 - Tre Harris
31:26 - Tez Johnson
33:48 - Elijhah Badger
35:34 - Jack Bech, Jalen Royals, KeAndre Lambert-Smith & Isaiah Bond
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 853 of the official. |
| 0:19.5 | Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:21.4 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:22.3 | As always, joined by Evan Silva. |
| 0:24.3 | NFL Draft is coming up at the end of this month. |
| 0:28.2 | It is long past time to get to know all of the prospects |
| 0:30.9 | who are going to be affecting fantasy football and props this fall. |
| 0:35.2 | For this, we are joined by Mike Renner of CBS Sports Draft Prospect |
| 0:41.0 | Evaluator extraordinaire. Mike, how's it going today? Going great. Excited talk wide receivers. |
| 0:46.9 | Unique class. It's not a bad class, though. Oh, so we have to get into that. People say it is a bad |
| 0:51.3 | class. Anyways, Evan, how's it going today? Yeah, I was just going to go on a rant about how if this was your off season, you needed a white out this all season. |
| 0:59.8 | You were pretty much screwed because T. Higgins was taken off the market immediately. |
| 1:04.8 | The free agency market was barren at wide receiver. |
| 1:10.1 | And it seems like, I don't know, I feel like people think that there is |
| 1:13.9 | not a clear number one receiver in this draft, but I do like to hear that Renner might be a |
| 1:19.4 | little bit more optimistic than the general public about the group. Okay. On today's show, |
| 1:25.5 | we will be discussing the outlook for both fantasy and real life. |
| 1:29.0 | On wider series, we expect to go in roughly rounds one, two, and three. |
| 1:32.7 | We'll go in the order of Mike's rankings. |
| 1:34.0 | We'll also get renter's NFL player com for each prospect. |
| 1:37.7 | This is the third part in a four-part series. |
| 1:40.9 | Hopefully you guys caught quarterback and running back already. |
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