Things haven’t quite been the same for LSU since their 2019 national championship-winning season, but things are turning around. After a couple of .500 years under Ed Orgeron, the Tigers have won 20 games under new head coach Brian Kelly in just two years, including a couple of big ones over top-10 squads Alabama and Ole Miss in 2022.
This year, LSU is viewed as a relative outsider in the new-look SEC, but there’s still plenty of talent on the roster — talent that NFL front offices will be very interested in come draft season.
Here are the three best LSU prospects to watch ahead of the NFL Draft, which begins April 24, 2025:
Will Campbell | Offensive tackle
ESPN’s Matt Miller on Campbell: “Long-term protection”
Prospect ranking:
Pro Football Focus (No. 7), Tankathon (No. 2), Pro Football Network (No. 15)
At 6-foot-6 and 320 pounds, and with an expected 40-yard dash in the neighborhood of 5.1 seconds, Campbell’s physical profile is exactly what you want out of a pro tackle. It’s not always easy being the blindside tackle for an extremely mobile quarterback like Heisman winner Jayden Daniels, as the flow of the play can change at a moment’s notice, but Campbell did a fantastic job last season; he never let his quarterback get sacked by his assigned pass-rusher and allowed just 12 hurries throughout the whole campaign.
Campbell isn’t just an athlete, he’s the consensus top offensive tackle in his draft class. There’s essentially no ceiling to how high Campbell could go, especially in a relative down year for the quarterback position. He’s probably not getting out of the top five and certainly not the top 10. His exact draft position will depend largely on who’s picking where, and whether or not each top-of-the-draft team needs a quarterback.
