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Top Stanford players - 2025 - msqueri - 08-17-2025

Time for one of my favorite posts of the year, giving a preseason prediction of our top players. This has been a fun annual exercise for me since 2019. The basic rule of it is I'm trying to predict the top 35 players by snap count at the end of the season and rank them in terms of quality (best understood in terms of things like quality in relation to ACC peers, which can be approximated by year-end PFF grades). Specialists are not ranked here. The top 35 in snaps is essentially synonymous with the non-specialists who matter in a season, those with approximately 200 snaps over the course of a 12 game season give or take a dozen snaps or so.



In the earlier attempts I did quite well at this the first two years before whiffing in 2021, doing a nice job in 2022 overall but struggling predicting who would be best, doing even better in 2023, and then doing quite well last year. Let's see how I can do this year:



1. Collin Wright

2. Ben Gulbranson

3. Jahsiah Galvan

4. Scotty Edwards

5. Jordan Washington

6. Sam Roush

7. Jay Green

8. Hunter Barth

9. Cole Tabb

10. Benji Blackburn

11. Zach Johnson

12. Matt Rose

13. JonAnthony Hall

14. Mitch Leigber

15. Micah Ford

16. Tevarua Tafiti

17. Clay Patterson

18. Ernest Cooper

19. Zach Rowell

20. Anthony Franklin

21. Caden High

22. Wilfredo Aybar

23. Che Ojarikre

24. Simione Pale

25. Braden Marceau-Olayinka

26. Brandon Nicholson

27. CJ Williams

28. Niki Prongos

29. Nick Fattig

30. Bryce Farrell

31. Kahlil House

32. Fisher Anderson

33. Ziron Brown

34. Cam Richardson

35. Emeka Ugorji



Apologies to Elijah Brown, Sedrick Irvin, Chris Davis, Tuna Altahir, Myles Libman, Jordan Onovughe, Brendan Doyle, Jack Leyrer (sadly I'm betting on injury nuking his year, at least insofar as who is able to get 200-ish snaps), Nathan Mejia (same), Zak Yamauchi, Charlie Hoitink, Dylan Stevenson, Gabe Kaminski, Zach Buckey, Omar Staples, Darrius Davis, Omari Gaines, Jaylen'Dai Sumlin, Sam Neely, and others who could have been included. it was especially jarring/brutal to omit Sumlin and Chris Davis, as they were among our top 35 players last year as true freshmen. Davis and Buckey were two of our highest graded returning players, so odd to not have them on here. I think that those three as well as Elijah Brown, Libman, Staples, Neely, or Darrius Davis easily could be top 35 but I really try to keep this prediction realistic and in particular think really systematically about how many guys are likely to get significant playing time at each position and how things are trending. The last spot (Johnson vs. Staples vs. Buckey vs. Brown) was, as always, a tough call, but trying my best to be predictive here.



As always, look forward to folks' thoughts/discussion.

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RE: Top Stanford players - 2025 - CowboyIndian - 08-17-2025

(08-17-2025, 09:27 AM)msqueri Wrote:  Time for one of my favorite posts of the year, giving a preseason prediction of our top players. This has been a fun annual exercise for me since 2019. The basic rule of it is I'm trying to predict the top 35 players by snap count at the end of the season and rank them in terms of quality (best understood in terms of things like quality in relation to ACC peers, which can be approximated by year-end PFF grades). Specialists are not ranked here. The top 35 in snaps is essentially synonymous with the non-specialists who matter in a season, those with approximately 200 snaps over the course of a 12 game season give or take a dozen snaps or so.



In the earlier attempts I did quite well at this the first two years before whiffing in 2021, doing a nice job in 2022 overall but struggling predicting who would be best, doing even better in 2023, and then doing quite well last year. Let's see how I can do this year:



1. Collin Wright

2. Ben Gulbranson

3. Jahsiah Galvan

4. Scotty Edwards

5. Jordan Washington

6. Sam Roush

7. Jay Green

8. Hunter Barth

9. Cole Tabb

10. Benji Blackburn

11. Zach Johnson

12. Matt Rose

13. JonAnthony Hall

14. Mitch Leigber

15. Micah Ford

16. Tevarua Tafiti

17. Clay Patterson

18. Ernest Cooper

19. Zach Rowell

20. Anthony Franklin

21. Caden High

22. Wilfredo Aybar

23. Che Ojarikre

24. Simione Pale

25. Braden Marceau-Olayinka

26. Brandon Nicholson

27. CJ Williams

28. Niki Prongos

29. Nick Fattig

30. Bryce Farrell

31. Kahlil House

32. Fisher Anderson

33. Ziron Brown

34. Cam Richardson

35. Emeka Ugorji



Apologies to Elijah Brown, Sedrick Irvin, Chris Davis, Tuna Altahir, Myles Libman, Jordan Onovughe, Brendan Doyle, Jack Leyrer (sadly I'm betting on injury nuking his year, at least insofar as who is able to get 200-ish snaps), Nathan Mejia (same), Zak Yamauchi, Charlie Hoitink, Dylan Stevenson, Gabe Kaminski, Zach Buckey, Omar Staples, Darrius Davis, Omari Gaines, Jaylen'Dai Sumlin, Sam Neely, and others who could have been included. it was especially jarring/brutal to omit Sumlin and Chris Davis, as they were among our top 35 players last year as true freshmen. Davis and Buckey were two of our highest graded returning players, so odd to not have them on here. I think that those three as well as Elijah Brown, Libman, Staples, Neely, or Darrius Davis easily could be top 35 but I really try to keep this prediction realistic and in particular think really systematically about how many guys are likely to get significant playing time at each position and how things are trending. The last spot (Johnson vs. Staples vs. Buckey vs. Brown) was, as always, a tough call, but trying my best to be predictive here.



As always, look forward to folks' thoughts/discussion.

Haven't put as much thought nor energy into this as you...like none...but maybe I'd have Roush up a little higher. I'm hoping that's true, at least.

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