Bye Week Tradition: 2025 Three-Deep

You knew this was coming. I've been doing this for 15 years now. During the bye week, I peek at next year's depth chart. And, during seasons with two bye weeks (like this one), the second bye week will be a look at the 2026 depth chart.

The reason for two bye weeks this year, in case you're not aware: some years there are 13 Saturdays between Labor Day Weekend and the weekend after Thanksgiving. Other years (like this one), there are 14 Saturdays between the two. This is one of those "14 Saturdays" years, so everyone gets two bye weeks (and teams that played a Week Zero game, like Florida State and Georgia Tech, get three bye weeks).

We'll do this one as a three-deep. Here are the rules:

• If a player has eligibility next season, he goes on here. There might be players declaring for the draft, but for now, I'm showing everyone as returning.
• Yes, this is a transfer portal world and several players will choose to transfer after the season. I can't predict those so every player with eligibility is on here.
• Yes, we will add several incoming transfers in the offseason so those names won't be on here yet.
• Yes, the incoming freshman I'm listing here have not signed yet and could technically still flip somewhere else.

There. I just put a stop to half the "butwhatabout" comments after I publish this. I'm aware of all of those things... yet I'm still going ahead with a three-deep. Because I like to peek at next season. And the season after that.

Here's the current 2025 Three-Deep. As always, I'm showing 12 positions on defense so that I can cover all defensive formations. True freshmen are in italics. And each player is listed by their 2025 eligibility (there, I just eliminated the yearly "I thought Altmyer was a junior?" comment).