2025 NFL Draft Stock Report: Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl

2025 NFL Draft Stock Report: Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl

Hi. Trey here. I hope you have been enjoying the 2025 NFL Draft Stock Report notes all year. We haven’t missed a week and I think the version we created this year was the most in-depth ever. I strive to take our NFL Draft coverage to another level on an annual basis. For this year, any time I watch a Bowl Game, we’re going to talk about it.

Except… we’re going to take it one step further. Sometimes these games display guys who will be featured for the following year’s draft… or maybe even the following year after that. It will provide great linkbacks for future rankings so don’t think of this post just for the 2025 NFL Draft. College Football is the information process so it should be treated as such regardless of the year.

So… yeah. We’re kicking off Bowl season with the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl between Florida and Tulane. By the way, Florida won 33-8 and Tulane scored on the last possession of the game in garbage time.

Florida

Jadan Baugh is the guy now. Montrell Johnson has finally gone into Dameon Pierce turd suck mode. He’s third strong now. Ja’Kobi Jackson might have something to him too. We still got a ways to go here but Baugh looks like an NFL player. Still a true freshman and already passed a guy like Johnson no problem. Has some size on him too. 227 and moves great in space. Five yards per carry on 14 attempts. A really nice flash for more to come.

Jackson comes from a community college in Mississippi. Looked really good. Runs hard, no problem going through the tackles without screwing around, and plus contact balance. He’s not nothing.

This DJ Lagway is tough to bring down. It’s going to be important for quarterbacks to be in the coming yards. Not that he’s hard to tackle but it’s going to take more than a half-assed attempt to get him down. For a true freshy he looks kinda built.

Not sure his touch is totally there but it looks like he gets in the weight room and is improving over the course of the regular season. He’s still a bit clunky with his eye level trying to get the ball down the field. Not necessarily saying he can’t throw deep. It’s more about when it’s not scripted for him can he shift his eye level and make the second play. Right now he does this weird thing where he looks like he’s bracing for a hit keeping his shoulder in a weird spot and hesitating. He’s not very fluid in general yet. I swear it looks like someone hit the guy in the shoulder with a hammer six times before the game. I’m not sure what’s going on with that release yet. We’re in wait-and-see mode on that.

Arm talent is there. A bit stiff in the front foot but you can see he’s talented. There’s just something missing right now. It’s like he’s unbalanced and needs to improve mechanically. Look at the pick he threw in the first quarter. Just watch his body angle here. WTF is this? This ball was picked the moment he looked like a noob trying to throw this ball with eight dropping into coverage. It’s like he’s been infected with the Anthony Richardson curse of being a hot mess. It’s a matter of is it just a case of the cold or is it stage five cancer and it’s never going to get better. That’s TBD. Still way too young to be like YUP or NO either way.

By the way, he did basically the exact same thing in the red zone in the second quarter. What’s obvious is he’s far from a finished product. Got ways to go here. But talent is there. The downside is that he’s a total mess right now. Bad ball security. Ball security is job security. Can’t see a zone to save his life. Fumbling around the end zone.

What he can do is step up in the pocket and layer balls down the field. Combine that with these zone read runs and he’s going to be a threat in the coming years. I’ll say this. He’s definitely not the first, second, or third QB in the SEC I’d want for 2025. Maybe fourth? Your imagination can do the rest. I just wish that on some of this stuff, it wouldn’t look like he was doing it blindfolded. Finished the game 22/35 for 305 passing yards, one touchdown, and two interceptions.

The good news for this Florida team. Everybody basically comes back next year. That includes the offensive line and the center looks like he has some potential.

How do you not love this nose tackle Desmond Watson? I know the dude is literally 450 pounds (and that’s probably 50 pounds lighter than reality) but you gotta have guys like that to clog up the middle of the defense. Gotta have guys like that to stop the run. You stop the run you win the game. The biggest problem is he’s never on the field. Feel like I only get him for a handful of snaps. Just one tackle in the game but it’s not an accident Tulane averaged 2.6 yards per carry.

Jalen Coker vibes for this Chimere Dike? Not overly big. Not overly fast. Just a football player. Was at Wisconsin forever. Six catches for 96 yards and just got open. Beating up this Tulane team is a requirement for being taken seriously. Welcome to the mix.

Tulane

No Darian Mensah who basically guided their season. He’s at Duke now after entering the portal after the regular season. First throw of the game, Ty Thompson throws a pick on a stupid flea flicker. Thompson started out his career at Oregon and it kinda fits. He looks like something the Ducks would have had in 1999. He’s nothing NFL wise. We’re not even Dennis Dixon territory here. This is really nothing. They will miss Mensah. He’s so bad that I’m not sure he’s Tulane good enough. 11/29 with 125 yards, one touchdown, and three picks. He made me vomit.

By the way, the trick ball throw by Mario Williams was the best thrown ball by Tulane the entire game.

I’m not sure what you want me to say. I watched this entire game. This team doesn’t have many NFL bodies. When I say many, I mean the list might be zero. Mario Williams, the wide receiver, has the best chance to do so. Defensive lineman Patrick Jenkins might be a late round guy. That’s literally the end of the list.

Six catches for 91 yards and a score for Williams. He’s like less alien mode of Jaylen Waddle. Small but quick and a plus route runner. Way more talent than Jha’Quan Jackson from a year ago. 5-foot-9, 178, and did next to nothing in the first half.

The running back is alright but he’s a sophomore and far from a guarantee to make it. Certainly doesn’t have the wiggle Tyjae Spears has. When I say alright, I mean you’re sitting there on your couch asking who that is during a random preseason game.

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