As the beginning of college football season approaches Aug. 23, the white-hot highlight usually shines on skill-position gamers reminiscent of QBs, large receivers and operating backs.
Whether or not bulldozing via visitors, exploding into the open subject or catching passes out of the backfield, these 5 elite RBs are poised to ship highlight-reel moments in 2025.
Jeremiyah Love, Notre Dame Preventing Irish
Love (6-foot, 206 kilos) could also be the very best returning operating again in faculty soccer. He rushed for 1,125 yards and 17 touchdowns final season and was an enormous motive Notre Dame acquired to the nationwide championship sport towards Ohio State.
NFL Draft analyst Todd McShay believes Love stands above all elite faculty operating backs.
“[H]e’s a first-round operating again primarily based on his operating expertise,” McShay famous. “The agility, acceleration, imaginative and prescient … contact stability and the facility all make him a first-round operating again.”
Professional: “J Love” has breakaway pace, highlighted by his 98-yard landing run final season.
Con: His ball safety and route operating should enhance.
Nate Frazier | Georgia Bulldogs
In his freshman season in 2024, the 5-foot-10, 205-pounder rushed for 671 yards and eight touchdowns and added 85 yards on 12 receptions. Count on these numbers to extend in his sophomore season.
Frazier isn’t NFL Draft eligible till 2027, however he understands that as an skilled participant, it is his job to be a frontrunner and to proceed to get higher.
“This man’s going to be particular,” George linebacker Justin Williams mentioned within the spring, per DawgNation.
Professional: Velocity. Velocity. Velocity. Per UGA.rivals.com, in highschool, “Frazier ran the 100-meter sprint in 10.58 seconds. His means to hit the opening and discover a crease is a ability you may’t train, and is a menace for an enormous play each time he touches the ball.”
Con: Ball safety. He fumbled 3 times within the closing six video games of the 2024 season.
