PRO 2025 Rookie Spotlight: Isaiah Neyor, Nebraska
Rookie Spotlight: Isaiah Neyor, Nebraska
Height: 6-4 (Shrine)
Weight: 222 (Shrine)
Hands: 9 5/8″
Arm: 34 7/8″
2025 Age: 24 – (6/07/01)
NFL Play-Style Comparison: Tarik Black, Brian Quick, Josh Gordon
Draft Grade: UDFA
Projected 40: 4.56
Breakout Age: 20 (RS Sophomore)
Event: Shrine Bowl
Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season)
Receptions: 13%
Receiving Yards: 17%
Receiving TDs: 42%
High School: Lamar HS (Arlington, Texas)
As a high school prospect: Class of 2019; 2-star (5.3)
Honors: Second-Team All-MWC in 2021
College Attended: Wyoming(3), Texas(2), Nebraska(1)
Pros
– Rare upper and lower body length combination
– Flashes high-end abilities once/twice per game in contested or alpha situations
– Ideal outside receiver frame
– Strong hands with the ability to succeed in red zone contested areas
Cons
– limited route tree, with underwhelming stem work
– liability in the run game
– won’t force many tackles after the catch, minimal yards after the catch
– lacks effort
– contested catch rate dropped from 60% in 2021 to 27% in 2024
– hasn’t seemed to get back to his pre-2022 self physically prior to ACL surgery
– 3rd-worst 2024 yards/route run among combine and all-star game invitees
Highlight/Film
Scouting Notes:
Beginning his career at Wyoming after receiving recruitment from Stephen F. Austin, Incarnate Word, Illinois State and Wyoming, Isaiah Neyor opted to take the highest road possible and go Division I. Neyor attended the same High School (Lamar) in Houston, Texas as former NFL Wide Receivers Josh Gordon and Brandon LaFell. After three seasons in Cheyenne, Neyor finally received recognition from a blue-blood, his home state team (Texas) where he spent the 2022 and 2023 seasons, in two seasons in Austin, Neyor dealt with a multitude of injuries, playing in just one game with one reception.
In 2024, Isaiah Neyor entered the transfer portal once again, this time with eyes on Lincoln, Nebraska. It didn’t take him long to establish himself, finishing Week 1 against UTEP with 6 receptions 121 yards, and 1 touchdown, his best output since October 2021. What Neyor lacks in effort in the run game and strength as a route runner, he makes up for in pure athleticism. Within the first quarter of game one that I watched, I found myself begging for more.. more.. more! The comparison of Josh Gordon does not come from his high school being the same, but rather his boom/bust range of outcomes and his athletic dominance that flashes at times. In six years at the college level, I’d expect a more refined route running game from Neyor as well as creativity and effort with and without the football, working to get open.
