Welcome into their episode of the PFF College Football Show, Max Chadwick, alongside Dalton Wasserman here with my top 10 linebackers in college football entering the

2025 season.

Dalton, we got a couple really good linebackers going the NFL draft.

Jihad Camel going in the first round of the draft, Jalen Walker, also going in the first round

of the draft as well, but still very loaded linebacker group, I feel like come back to college.

Yeah, this must have been a tough rank for you because I think this is a very deep group where there's probably close to 15 guys who at least could have been considered.

And then you have different skill sets.

Some guys are a little bigger, a little bit of run defenders.

Some other guys are speedier, get the job done in coverage, right?

They're really flying around on the weak side. So a lot of different types of players in these rankings must have been tough to rank and then balancing the stats and

the grades and everything like that. So a lot of talent here. What I like is there's the heart and soul

a lot of the best defenses in college football here. Absolutely. A linebacker is always the

hardest position every single year, in my opinion, to rank because they got to do everything on the football field. The only players on the defensive side of the ball have to do literally everything on defense,

whether it be covering players, playing the run, or pass rushing as well.

So I have stats for everything on defense for these guys.

My spreadsheet for linebackers is always the biggest one out of every position I always do every single

year. But now we have the top 10 linebackers for you guys. I want to remind you guys all the stats

that I put together for this list are all available to you guys as well, the PFF plus

subscription at subscribe.pf.com. So you get grades and analytics on every single player in

college football and the NFL and access

to our 2026 NFL mock draft simulator where you could draft a lot of these linebackers on this

list as well.

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