Where Texas players were picked in PFF's 2025 NFL Mock Draft

The success on the field that Texas football and head coach Steve Sarkisian have found in the past few years has translated to better results in the NFL Draft each offseason. Texas had a first-round pick in the NFL Draft in each of the past two classes, including multiple first-round draft picks this past spring.

Which Texas football players will be picked in the first round for the 2025 NFL Draft?

Texas is expected to have at least one player selected in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft, with multiple early entrants projected to declare for the next level next spring.

In the latest 2025 NFL Mock Draft from Pro Football Focus (released on Oct. 2), two Longhorns players were picked in the first round.

The first Longhorn picked in PFF's first-round 2025 NFL Mock Draft was junior offensive tackle Kelvin Banks Jr., going to the Cleveland Browns with the fifth overall selection. After the season's first five weeks, Banks is the highest-graded pass-blocking offensive tackle in the P4.

He is also the only starting SEC offensive tackle this season that hasn't allowed a single QB hit or sack. Banks fills a need for the Browns as a reliable and highly proficient pass-blocking left tackle to help Cleveland fill one of their biggest needs on the offensive side of the ball: blocking for starting quarterback Deshaun Watson.

Banks is the second offensive tackle off the board in this mock draft, behind LSU Tigers preseason All-American Will Campbell, who was picked by the New England Patriots third overall.

The second of two Longhorns players selected in the first round of this 2025 mock draft is speedy junior wide receiver Isaiah Bond. This mock has Bond getting selected 22nd overall by the Denver Broncos from the AFC West, joining fellow former Longhorns including wide receiver Lil'Jordan Humphrey and safeties Brandon Jones and PJ Locke.

Bond is one of the fastest and most elusive wideouts in this draft class. He is Texas's new speedster in the receiving corps who could easily be selected in the first round of the 2025 draft after former Longhorns star Xavier Worthy broke the 40-yard dash record time at the NFL combine this past spring.

The Broncos need another speedy playmaker in the receiving corps, and Bond could help them fill that need on offense.

Maybe the biggest surprise from this mock draft was the exclusion of redshirt junior Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers from the first round. Ewers is projected by many early 2025 mock drafts to be a top 10 or 15 pick next spring.

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