PRO 2025 Rookie Spotlight: Elic Ayomanor, WR Stanford
Rookie Spotlight: Elic Ayomanor, WR Stanford
Height: 6-2 (unofficial)
Weight: 210 (unofficial)
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2025 Age: 22 (6/15/03)
NFL Play-Style Comparison: Adam Thielen
Other RW Staff Comps: Michael Pittman, Cooper Kupp, Michael Wilson, Amara Darboh, Jalen Coker
Draft Grade: 3rd Round
Projected 40: 4.56
Breakout Age: 20 (Sophomore)
Event: Senior Bowl
Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season)
Receptions: 28%
Receiving Yards: 36%
Receiving TDs: 33%
High School: Deerfield Academy (Deerfield, MA)
As a high school prospect: Class of 2022; 3-star (5.5)
Honors: 2023 First Team Freshman All-American, 2024 Second-Team All-ACC, 2023 Jon Cornish Trophy Winner (Best Canadian Player in College Football)
College Attended: Stanford(3)
Pros
– Good hand-fighter at the line of scrimmage
– Big body creating lots of surface area on in-breaking routes, overall an appealing route-runner
– Deceptive ability to stack outside defenders with strong release and footwork
– Strong hands and excellent body control
– Willing and capable run-game stalk-blocker
– 2023 Jon Cornish Trophy Winner (Best Canadian Player in College Football) – “Prev. Chase Brown, John Metchie, Chuba Hubbard”
– Consistent…hit 63 catches, 6 touchdowns, 6 drops, and a 48% contested catch rate in each of two seasons
– 2023 First Team Freshman All-American
– Proven ability to absolutely take over football games at the college level versus top talent (see Colorado 2023 vs. Travis Hunter)
Cons
– lacks downfield breakaway speed
– a bit lumbering at the stem on return routes
– Found himself in a lot of Contested situations (29), 5th most in 2024
– Quarterback play at Stanford has been in the Bottom 5 in the Country in the Power 5, according to PFF (and the eyeballs). (2023, 2024)
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Scouting Notes:
Elic Ayomanor (eye-o-MANN-er), is one of less than 10 underclassmen at the wide receiver position in the 2025 NFL Draft. The model of consistency in the last two seasons, 60+ receptions in each season with over 80 first downs and 12 touchdowns, Ayomanor shows elite no. 2 traits, while lacking downfield explosion. I see traits of Mike Evans and Michael Pittman in his sometimes-lumbering style but strength-stacking defenders on the outside and consistently winning on slants across the intermediate area.
Ayomanor began his life in Canada, where he was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, he attended Medicine Hat High School before transferring to the United States where he attended Peddie School in New Jersey before finishing his career at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. The same school that Los Angeles Rams Tight End Hunter Long attended nearly a decade ago. Ayomanor chose Stanford over Notre Dame, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt.
With professional traits as a route runner and the deceptive ability to stack defenders after hand-fighting the hell out of them, Ayomanor is a sure-fire Day 2 or early Day 3 selection in this spring’s NFL draft, I finished with a 3rd round grade and a slam dunk comparison of… Adam Thielen!
