A week before the draft, ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg published an article describing who college football coaches believe were the best sleepers going into the 2025 NFL Draft. Based on the consensus draft board, several of these players were drafted much earlier than they were expected to, so it appears that the NFL and college football were more often than not in line with their evaluations.
One player who didn’t get selected off of this list, though, was Kentucky linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson, who began his career at Georgia before transferring to the Wildcats in 2024.