This week, our colleague Adam Rittenberg took on the task of ranking college football’s top 50 returning players for 2017 in an Insider piece. So today, we’re taking a way-too-early look at the Big 12’s top 25 players for next season.
This list wasn’t easy to put together, since it features a mix of players with proven production and ones we’re projecting could do big things in 2017. We’ll revise these rankings again in the summer, but for now, here’s our initial top 25: