Kadyn Proctor is Alabama’s highest-ranked player in CBS Sports’ list of 2026 NFL Draft players to watch this season.<\/p>\n
Alabama football<\/a> has some NFL draft analysts buzzing ahead of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n Small wonder. The Crimson Tide<\/a> have gone 17 years since a player wasn’t selected in the first round of the draft. That was all the way back in 2008 after Nick Saban’s first season when the talent simply hadn’t arrived in Tuscaloosa but was more than on its way with Saban’s banner ’08 class.<\/p>\n Exactly who the first Alabama<\/a> player chosen at next year’s draft, to be held in Pittsburgh, will be is probably a matter of debate and hinges on who steps up the most in 2025. Two players to keep an eye on are offensive tackle Kadyn Proctor<\/a> and defensive lineman LT Overton<\/a>.<\/p>\n Proctor and Overton are two of four Alabama players that made CBS Sports’ top 50 draft prospects to watch<\/a> ahead of the 2025 college football season. Proctor has been a two-year starter at left tackle and enters the season as a rising junior among the draft boards.<\/p>\n He was ranked the No. 3 overall player in CBS Sports’ list on Friday, behind Texas<\/a> quarterback Arch Manning at No. 1 and former Crimson Tide safety Caleb Downs of Ohio State<\/a>.<\/p>\n Overton will return for his senior season and second with the Crimson Tide after transferring to Alabama from Texas A&M<\/a> after the 2023 season. In 12 games last season, the 6-foot-5, 283-pound tackle made a career-high 42 tackles (17 solo) and recorded two sacks and a forced fumble.<\/p>\n Overton, named to the 2025 Lott IMPACT Trophy Watch List, was ranked the No. 13 overall play to watch by CBS Sports. Further down the list, fifth-year senior linebacker and fellow Lott IMPACT Trophy Watch List member Deontae Lawson<\/a> was ranked at No. 35 overall, with offensive lineman Parker Brailsford No. 49.<\/p>\n Alabama will open the 2025 season against\u00a0the Florida State Seminoles<\/a>\u00a0at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee on Aug. 30. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. CT. The game will be televised on ABC.<\/p>\n Alabama football schedule 2025<\/p>\n All times Central.<\/p>\n Aug. 30: at\u00a0Florida State, 2:30 p.m., ABCSept. 6: vs. Louisiana-Monroe, 6:45 p.m., SEC NetworkSept. 13: vs.\u00a0Wisconsin<\/a>, 11 a.m., ABC or ESPNSept. 27: at\u00a0Georgia, 6:30 p.m., ABCOct. 4: vs. Vanderbilt, TBAOct. 11: at Missouri, 11 a.m., ABC or ESPNOct. 18: vs.\u00a0Tennessee<\/a>, TBAOct. 25: at South Carolina, TBANov. 8: vs. LSU, prime timeNov. 15: vs.\u00a0Oklahoma<\/a>, TBANov. 22 vs. Eastern Illinois, 1 p.m., ESPN+Nov. 29: at\u00a0Auburn<\/a>, TBA<\/p>\n Contact\/Follow us\u00a0@RollTideWire<\/a>\u00a0on X, and like our page on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of\u00a0Alabama Crimson Tide<\/a>\u00a0news, notes and opinions.<\/p>\n