Top 30 Visits 2025

[Dantés]

Colorado St WR Tory Horton, is a Top 30 visit. Played 5 games in 2024, before a season ending injury. I'm sure they want to check that out.

Nice!

Horton isn't in the consensus top 100, but I like him as a surprise day 2 pick if the medicals are good.

He ran 4.41 and jumped 37.5" at 6'2" 196# even though he was coming off an injury. I believe GPS field data had him in the 23 MPH range.

He was really good right away in the Mountain West. He had 16/286/3 in his last four games as a true freshman.

52/659/5 as a true sophomore
71/1131/8 as a true junior
96/1136/8 as a senior

Then struggled with injuries as a covid senior.

Also a really good punt returner. 26/423/3 for his career-- 16.3 average.

 

[AmishMafia]

Up to 24 visits now, with many being potential 1st Rd guys. Here is the list of players who will be in Green Bay attending the Draft.

*Quarterbacks: Cam Ward (Miami), Jalen Milroe (Alabama), Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss)

*Receivers: Matthew Golden (Texas), Tetairoa McMillan (Arizona), Travis Hunter (Colorado)

*Running Backs: Ashton Jeanty (Boise State)

*Offensive Linemen: Tyler Booker (Alabama), Will Campbell (LSU), Josh Simmons (Ohio State)

*Defensive Linemen: Mason Graham (Michigan), Abdul Carter (Penn State), Shemar Stewart (Texas A&M), Mykel Williams (Georgia)

*Linebackers: Jihaad Campbell (Alabama)

*Defensive Backs: Will Johnson (Michigan), Malaki Starks (Georgia)

I would think the NFL would love to have the new Packer step on the stage at Green Bay. I wonder if the guy we are likely to end up with is on this list. Bothers me that Hairston has now been added.

 

[Magooch]

Hypothetical question for you all, just for fun.
Let's say for whatever reason the NFL decides draft-pick trades are no longer allowed. You can't move up or down and have to pick exactly at the pick you've currently got.
Pick #23 rolls around and by some miracle every single player you've had on a top 30 are still available. The league also stipulates that with your first round pick you MUST draft someone that you've had an official visit with.

From that list, who would you pick?

 

[Dantés]

Hypothetical question for you all, just for fun.
Let's say for whatever reason the NFL decides draft-pick trades are no longer allowed. You can't move up or down and have to pick exactly at the pick you've currently got.
Pick #23 rolls around and by some miracle every single player you've had on a top 30 are still available. The league also stipulates that with your first round pick you MUST draft someone that you've had an official visit with.

From that list, who would you pick?

Shemar Stewart

 

[tynimiller]

Colorado St WR Tory Horton, is a Top 30 visit. Played 5 games in 2024, before a season ending injury. I'm sure they want to check that out.

He is one of my six WRs I really like for GB….for the record I do love Egbuka but to me he isn’t a possibility as he should be gone by 23.

 

[tynimiller]

Horton is in my top100. After Royals he is one of the few guys I think can be a 1 someday….maybe Felton but I don’t think he is dynamic enough

 

[OldSchool101]

I'd love to see 4 QB's go off the board before Gute is on the clock. Seems that College QB's are way over-rated, but their upside is worth the gamble for teams lacking a good one.

If I had to put money on a Packer 3 round trifecta, it would be a CB, WR and DT....who and in what order, no clue.

Now that I said it though, Gute probably goes OL, LB and QB.

If it shook out CB, WR, DT that’s probably ideal as far as where strengths are in this years draft. But yeah, I wouldn’t be as upset about the order if we mix it up DT, WR, CB etc.

Likely some good players injected into the fray.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Hypothetical question for you all, just for fun.
Let's say for whatever reason the NFL decides draft-pick trades are no longer allowed. You can't move up or down and have to pick exactly at the pick you've currently got.
Pick #23 rolls around and by some miracle every single player you've had on a top 30 are still available. The league also stipulates that with your first round pick you MUST draft someone that you've had an official visit with.

From that list, who would you pick?

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Tetairoa McMillan​

 

[OldSchool101]

I’ll never forget watching Horton in the Colorado vs. Colorado State game a couple years ago. Horton was tearing it up. Horton is the WR that took it to Double OT and I was in a Hot Springs, AR Hotel watching that game. The room I stayed in was adjacent to the Room where Babe Ruth partied regularly and I was hoping to see his ghost.., not!

My wife passed out just before OT and I was up until 1am into 2OT. Of course I was wanting Colorado to Win because of their resurgence with Deon Sanders and his Boy.

 

[DoURant]

Horton is in my top100. After Royals he is one of the few guys I think can be a 1 someday….maybe Felton but I don’t think he is dynamic enough

I like Horton better than Felton, for the same reason. I feel Horton can be a #1, where I don't have that feeling with Felton.

 

[tynimiller]

I like Horton better than Felton, for the same reason. I feel Horton can be a #1, where I don't have that feeling with Felton.

I don’t have Felton in my 100, I believe he is the late or mid 130s if memory serves

 

[Thirteen Below]

Colorado St WR Tory Horton, is a Top 30 visit. Played 5 games in 2024, before a season ending injury. I'm sure they want to check that out.

Prior to the combine, he was pegged at #157 by Bleacher Report, with a 4th round grade. But he dropped a lot of jaws at the combine, and scored a 9.83 RAS, so his stiock is rising.

It's worth noting that so far, Green Bay appears to be one of only two teams to invite him for a Top 30 visit - the other being Buffalo. Green Bay also sent people to the Colorado State pro day - and considering that the only other Rams player with a chance to be drafted is a safety with a consensus ranking of 497, it's pretty likely they were just there for Tory.

I don't know if Gute would spend a Day Two pick on him, but if he's there in the 4th, I'd like that pick. Possibly even in the 3rd, depending on what we've done up to that point.

Edit: I just learned that the knee injury was an ACL, suffered on October 12th, 2024, and 4 1/2 months later he ran a 4.41 40 at the NFL combine. I don't think I've ever heard of that rapid a recovery before, and to me it suggests a couple of things - first, that it's a very encouraging indicator of the prognosis for his full longterm recovery; and second, that this is one tough, dedicated, courageous kid.

It's a shame his final season was cut short; he was just 35 yards away from breaking the Mountain West receiving record.

 

[Thirteen Below]

Horton is in my top100. After Royals he is one of the few guys I think can be a 1 someday….maybe Felton but I don’t think he is dynamic enough

Would you consider him in the 2nd?

And where do you think he'd go if not for the injury?

 

[DoURant]

I don’t have Felton in my 100, I believe he is the late or mid 130s if memory serves

I view him as a late 4th or 5th rd guy. Now if he was the 2nd WR we drafted, I would be all for it.

 

[DoURant]

Prior to the combine, he was pegged at #157 by Bleacher Report, with a 4th round grade. But he dropped a lot of jaws at the combine, and scored a 9.83 RAS, so his stiock is rising.

It's worth noting that so far, Green Bay appears to be one of only two teams to invite him for a Top 30 visit - the other being Buffalo. Green Bay also sent people to the Colorado State pro day - and considering that the only other Rams player with a chance to be drafted is a safety with a consensus ranking of 497, it's pretty likely they were just there for Tory.

I don't know if Gute would spend a Day Two pick on him, but if he's there in the 4th, I'd like that pick. Possibly even in the 3rd, depending on what we've done up to that point.

If he wouldn't have gotten injured last year, he probably would be in the 2nd rd discussion. His medicals are going to determine a lot. I would definitely take him in the 3rd if he is healthy.

 

[tynimiller]

Would you consider him in the 2nd?

And where do you think he'd go if not for the injury?

If I knew medically he was good to go - which this visit is likely part of that, I would understand it but I ain't picking him over guys like Royals or Bech or Higgins or Burden...all who likely one will be there at our second pick.

 

[OldSchool101]

I just know that Mountain West athletes can’t compete. At least that’s what I was emphatically sold one time in here by the ghost of a Poster! Poser Past

 

[Thirteen Below]

If I knew medically he was good to go - which this visit is likely part of that, I would understand it but I ain't picking him over guys like Royals or Bech or Higgins or Burden...all who likely one will be there at our second pick.

But there may be an ED or DT at that spot who Gute values more highly, and he may judge Horton as good enough to take in the third.

Based on Dantes' excellent breakdown of the positions Green Bay is looking at in the top 30 visits, I think it's likely that Gute plans to go DT and DE with the first couple of picks, but is prepared to take a WR if the right one falls to him. However, if he does go DT-DE in the 1st and 2nd rounds, he wants to have a list of possible WR sleepers to take in the 3rd.

 

[Thirteen Below]

I just know that Mountain West athletes can’t compete. At least that’s what I was emphatically sold one time in here by the ghost of a Poster! Poser Past

Absolutely. It's a known fact. Brian Urlacher, Jordan Love, Romeo Doubs, Josh Allen, Davcante Adams, Brett Rypien, Bobby Wagner, Steve Smith, and Derek Carr are probably just the exceptions that prove the rule.

Green Bay has done well with players from that area, largely due to legendary scout Sam Seale - who is now national scout for the Packers, but formerly was our West Regional Scout.

There's an average of just under 3 MWC players per team in the NFL.... not like Georgia or Ohio State, but they've spit out some players.

Fifty-Three Players from MW Programs on NFL Active Rosters

themw.com

 

[Voyageur]

2025 TOP 30 VISITS:

OFFENSE:
Taylor Elgersma QB Wilfred
Tetairoa McMillan WR Arizona
Matthew Golden WR Texas
Emeka Egbuka WR Ohio State
Tory Horton WR Colorado St
Tai Felton WR Maryland
Isaiah Bond WR Texas
Josh Simmons OL Ohio State
Anthony Belton OL NC State
Dalton Cooper OL Oklahoma State
John Williams OL Cincinnati
Jacob Bayer OL Arkansas State
Esa Pole OL Washington State

DEFENSE:
Tyleik Williams DT Ohio St
TJ Sanders DT South Carolina
Walter Nolen DT Ole Miss
Mykel Williams Edge Georgia
Shemar Stewart Edge Texas A&M
James Pearce Edge Tennessee
Elijah Roberts Edge SMU
Jordan Burch Edge Oregon
Trey Amos CB Ole Miss
Shavon Revel CB E Carolina
Jason Marshall Jr CB Florida
Micah Robinson CB Tulane


Virtual Visits (Not Counted Against Top 30)
Fadil Diggs Edge Syracuse
Warren Brinson DL Georgia

For what it's worth, I think the position played by the players the Packers brought in on visits spells out their intent in this draft. The names themselves may not be whom they pick, but the positions they play is what they're concentrating on. There were past years I would have said they are using the positions as a decoy to give a false impression as to what they're going to concentrate on but that's hardly the case this year. The needs are specific, and actually obvious to most observers, so there's no sense on their part, of hiding it.

It's going to be an interesting draft, and I have a hunch the Packers could end up moving up or down for someone specific in one of the top 3 rounds.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Absolutely. It's a known fact. Brian Urlacher, Jordan Love, Romeo Doubs, Josh Allen, Davcante Adams, Brett Rypien, Bobby Wagner, Steve Smith, and Derek Carr are probably just the exceptions that prove the rule.

Green Bay has done well with players from that area, largely due to legendary scout Sam Seale - who is now national scout for the Packers, but formerly was our West Regional Scout.

There's an average of just under 3 MWC players per team in the NFL.... not like Georgia or Ohio State, but they've spit out some players.

Fifty-Three Players from MW Programs on NFL Active Rosters

themw.com

What I would love to know is the percentage of players from each program/conference, that get drafted and end up playing in the NFL.

I know the big named programs get a lot of guys drafted, but how many of them stick (play in the NFL)? With the Transfer Portal and NIL money changing things pretty dramatically in most NCAA Sports, those numbers, if they exist, will become muddled messes in the future.

 

[Dantés]

I'm going to attempt to narrow down the visits to those players most likely to be drafted.


Taylor Elgersma, QB, Wilfrid Laurier: UDFA recruiting

Tetairoa McMillan, WR, Arizona: Gone by #23
Matthew Golden, WR, Texas: Below normal size thresholds and generally don't draft WR rd 1
Emeka Egbuka, WR, Ohio State: Generally don't draft WR rd 1
Isaiah Bond, WR, Texas: Character scouting
Tory Horton, WR, Colorado State
Tai Felton, WR, Maryland

Josh Simmons, OT, Ohio State: Medical re-check
Anthony Belton, OL, North Carolina State
John Williams, OL, Cincinnati: UDFA recruiting
Jacob Bayer, OL, Arkansas State: UDFA recruiting
Dalton Cooper, OL, Oklahoma State: UDFA recruiting
Esa Pole, OL, Washington State: UDFA recruiting

Walter Nolen, DT, Mississippi: Character scouting
Tyleik Williams, DT, Ohio State
T.J. Sanders, DT, South Carolina

Mykel Williams, DE, Georgia: Gone by #23
Shemar Stewart, DE, Texas AM: Gone by #23
James Pearce, DE, Tennessee: Character scouting
Jordan Burch, DE, Oregon
Elijah Roberts, DE, Southern Methodist

Shavon Revel, CB, ECU: Medical re-check
Trey Amos, CB, MISS
Jason Marshall, CB, FLA
Micah Robinson, CB, TUL: UDFA recruiting

Now all of this is obviously just speculation. They could be re-checking a medical and decide everything is fine and draft that guy or they could be checking up on character reports and feel comfortable with them and draft that guy or someone I see as a UDFA type might actually be a late round draft pick. But if I had to say which guys are actually most likely to be picked out of their visits, I would say...

Tory Horton, WR, CSU
Tai Felton, WR, MAR

Anthony Belton, OL, NCSU

Tyleik Williams, DT, OSU
T.J. Sanders, DT, SC

Jordan Burch, DE, OR
Elijah Roberts, DE, SMU

Trey Amos, CB, MISS
Jason Marshall, CB, FLA

 

[Capitol 8805]

Nice story on Jacob Bayer. I will be rooting for him to make an NFL roster.

Center prospect Jacob Bayer has quite a story of recovery

The Packers brought Central Arkansas prospect Jacob Bayer in for a meeting prior to the 2025 NFL Draft.

www.acmepackingcompany.com

 

[Thirteen Below]

Nice story on Jacob Bayer. I will be rooting for him to make an NFL roster.

Center prospect Jacob Bayer has quite a story of recovery

The Packers brought Central Arkansas prospect Jacob Bayer in for a meeting prior to the 2025 NFL Draft.

www.acmepackingcompany.com

Anybody who works hard enough to get back on the field 6 months after an ACL is one tough, hardworking kid. I'm pulling for him, too.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Nice story on Jacob Bayer. I will be rooting for him to make an NFL roster.

Center prospect Jacob Bayer has quite a story of recovery

The Packers brought Central Arkansas prospect Jacob Bayer in for a meeting prior to the 2025 NFL Draft.

www.acmepackingcompany.com

Seems like some of the Packer Top 30's are guys they want to immediately target in the UDFA market. I wouldn't be sad at all to see them sign Bayer.