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PRO 2025 Rookie Spotlight: Will Sheppard, WR Colorado

Rookie Spotlight: Will Sheppard, Colorado Height: 6-2 (Shrine) Weight: 198 (Shrine) Hands: 9 7/8″ (Shrine) Arm: 32 1/4″ 2025 Age: 23 (2/11/02) NFL Play-Style Comparison: Tyler Johnson, Michael Wilson Draft Grade: 6th-7th Round Projected 40: 4.59 Breakout Age:  19 (Sophomore) Event: Shrine Bowl Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season) Receptions: 14% Receiving Yards: 16% Receiving TDs: 17% High School: Mandeville HS (Mandeville,

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PRO 2025 Rookie Spotlight: Konata Mumpfield, WR Pittsburgh

Rookie Spotlight: Konata Mumpfield, WR Pittsburgh (Kuh-nah-tay) Height: 5-11 (Shrine) Weight: 188 (Shrine) Hands: 8 1/2″ (Shrine) Arm: 29 5/8′ (Shrine) 2025 Age: 23 (10-24-02) NFL Play-Style Comparison: Denarius Moore Other RW Staff Comps: Xavier Gipson, Willie Snead Draft Grade:Day Three Projected 40: 4.50 Breakout Age: 19 (Freshman – Akron) Event: Shrine Bowl Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season)

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PRO 2025 Rookie Spotlight: Tory Horton, WR Colorado State

Rookie Spotlight: Tory Horton, WR Colorado State  Height: 6-3 Weight: 185 Hands: Arm: 2025 Age: 23 – (11/29/02) NFL Play-Style Comparison: Jordan Addison, Josh Reynolds, Marvin Jones Draft Grade: 2nd Round Projected 40: 4.47 Breakout Age: 20 (Junior) Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season) Receptions: 18% Receiving Yards: 24% Receiving TDs: 19% High School: Washington Union HS (Fresno, California) As a

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PRO 2025 Rookie Spotlight: Antwane “Juice” Wells, WR Ole Miss

Rookie Spotlight: Antwane “Juice” Wells, Ole Miss Height: 6-0 (Shrine) Weight: 203 (Shrine) Hands: 8 3/8″ Arm: 32″ 2025 Age: 24 – (4/2/01) NFL Play-Style Comparison: Jayden Reed, Stanley Morgan Draft Grade: 4th Round Projected 40: 4.52 Breakout Age: 21 (Junior) Event: Shrine Bowl Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season) Receptions: 10% Receiving Yards: 13% Receiving TDs: 19% High School: Highland Spring HS

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PRO 2025 Rookie Spotlight: KeAndre Lambert-Smith, WR Auburn

Rookie Spotlight: KeAndre Lambert-Smith, Auburn Height: 6-0 1/2″ (Shrine) Weight: 193 (Shrine) Hands: 8 7/8″ (Shrine) Arm: 33 1/8″ (Shrine) 2025 Age: 23 – (7/29/02) NFL Play-Style Comparison: Rashid Shaheed, Dyami Brown Draft Grade: 6th Round Projected 40: 4.38 Breakout Age: 22 (Graduate Senior) Event: Shrine Bowl Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season) Receptions: 22% Receiving Yards: 31% Receiving TDs: 30% High School:

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PRO 2025 Rookie Spotlight: Emeka Egbuka, WR Ohio State

Rookie Spotlight: Emeka Egbuka, Ohio State Height: 6-1 Weight: 205 Hands: Arm: 2025 Age: 23 – (10/14/02) NFL Play-Style Comparison: Robert Woods, Jarvis Landry Draft Grade: 1st Round Projected 40: 4.54 Breakout Age: 20 (Sophomore) Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season) Receptions: 25% Receiving Yards: 24% Receiving TDs: 29% High School: Steilacoom HS (Steilacoom, Washington)

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Cody Carpentier’s NFL Mock Draft 5.0

The NFL Regular Season is nearly Complete with the Super Bowl upcoming and the Senior and Shrine Bowls in the rearview mirror. The following is version 5.0 of my 2025 NFL Mock Draft Series. As every year, the Draft process can vault some players up or down depending on performance, just like C.J. Stroud in 2023

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PRO 2025 Rookie Spotlight: Matthew Golden, WR Texas

Rookie Spotlight: Matthew Golden, Texas Height: 6-0 Weight: 195 Hands: Arm: 2025 Age: 22 – (8/1/03) NFL Play-Style Comparison: Jordan Addison Other RW Staff Comps: Odell Beckham Jr. Draft Grade: 2nd Round Projected 40: 4.44 Breakout Age: 21 (Junior) Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season) Receptions: 16% Receiving Yards: 20% Receiving TDs: 24% High School: Klein Cain HS (Klein, Texas) As a

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PRO 2025 Rookie Spotlight: Tetairoa McMillan, WR Arizona

Rookie Spotlight: Tetairoa McMillan, Arizona Height: 6-5 Weight: 212 Hands: Arm: 2025 Age: 22 – (4/5/03) NFL Play-Style Comparison: Drake London, Equanimeous St. Brown, Christian Watson Other RW Staff Comps: Tee Higgins Draft Grade: 1st Round Projected 40: 4.52 Breakout Age: 19 (Freshman) Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season) Receptions: 32% Receiving Yards: 44% Receiving TDs: 44% High School: Servite HS (Anaheim, California)

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RosterWatch 2025 3rd-Annual All-Shrine Bowl Team

Live from 2025 Shrine Bowl practices, here is our All-Shrine Bowl Team from the all-star event. The following skill players most impressed our staff with not only their on-field skills but also their off-field temperaments and personalities as professionals during the week of 2024 practices for the East/West Shrine Bowl. Some of these players will have

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