Five Mountaineers Named to 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl Watchlist
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (August 21, 2024) – The Reese’s Senior Bowl has announced that five West Virginia University Football players have earned a spot on the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl Watchlist.
The five are quarterback Garrett Greene, offensive lineman Wyatt Milum, defensive lineman Ty French, defensive lineman Sean Martin and defensive back Garnett Hollis Jr.
This year’s 12th annual list is comprised of an all-time record 859 prospects. This total number is up significantly from past years due to the new addition of specialists and underclassmen, as well as the inclusion of many fifth and sixth-year seniors opting to use their extra Covid year of eligibility. All the prospects who made the cut were evaluated by our staff and tape-based grades were also logged on hundreds of other senior prospects who ultimately did not make the list.
Per last November’s ruling by the National Football League, all college players three years removed from high school are now eligible to enter the NFL Draft and thus, for the first time ever, the Watchlist includes 81 underclassmen our staff has identified as potential early-out draft prospects. Our longstanding relationships with college coaches is critical to us so we were intentionally very selective with what juniors were included on the list. Rather than use this new rule as an easy excuse to cast a wide net, we tried our best to communicate with college coaching staffs about the underclassmen they realistically felt might have an opportunity to leave early.
It takes professional evaluators to identify future professional players and this year’s Senior Bowl staff will be comprised of 11 regional scouts with over 200 years of NFL experience. Our staff will rely on decades worth of relationships at the college and NFL levels to stay on top of all the risers, career backup late-bloomers, and transfers taking advantage of opportunities in their final seasons.
One of our goals each year is to get live game exposures on as many prospects as possible so our Senior Bowl scouts will be in virtually every FBS and many small-school stadiums this college season. Last year, our staff saw all but two (out of 139) prospects in-person who ended up on the American and National rosters in February.
It is important to note that this initial Watchlist is just a starting point for us. 2024 tape will be the most critical criteria in our selection process and all draft eligible players will be re-evaluated based on their tape this fall. We know how hard the players all have worked since last season, so we owe it to them to stay open-minded and exhaustive in our process. For reference, seven position players, including a pair of third-rounders (USC RB Marshawn Lloyd and Boston College CB Elijah Jones), not included in last year’s Watchlist ended up playing in last year’s Reese’s Senior Bowl.
Finally, all college football and NFL draft fans are invited to follow along every week of the college season on Twitter/X (@JimNagy_SB), where the executive director will be bringing you down to the field with up-close videos of prospects from pre-game drills across the country every Saturday (and sometimes weekdays).
Please see notes below on the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl Watchlist:
Items to note:
- One conference with 200+ players
- Three conferences with 100+ players
ACC: 134 total players
Big 12: 118 total players
