It’s the final Rivals Rankings Week for the 2025 class and today we unveil all 32 players from the class that will forever be able to claim being a five-star prospect in high school.
Rivals recruiting director Adam Gorney gives his thoughts on each of the 32 prospects as we reveal them throughout the day. The full Rivals250 for 2025 will be released on Wednesday.
RIVALS RANKING WEEK
Monday: Who should be the No. 1 QB in the 2025 Rivals250?
Tuesday: Final Five-Star Countdown for the 2025 class | Meet the new five-stars
Wednesday: Final Rivals250 released | 2025 team champion announced | Gorney’s thoughts
Thursday: Final offensive position rankings revealed
Friday: Final defensive position rankings revealed
Saturday: Final state rankings revealed
Sunday: Rankings Roundtable
Gorney’s Take: When we saw Hylton Stubbs’ performance at the Rivals Five-Star over the summer, the Florida signee – who had been committed to USC – looked like a long, rangy cornerback out there and while some of the elite receivers did catch passes against him, it was never easy and always contested.
Stubbs has a laser focus on being great and while he was quiet like all the other safeties at the Navy All-American Bowl, the Jacksonville (Fla.) Mandarin standout has ranginess and burst that’s rare in this class. He has no problem coming up and hitting, but plays the back end like a hawk as nothing gets by him.
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Gorney’s Take: There are no better-looking prospects in the 2025 class than Jackson, who at 6-foot-6 and 260 pounds looks like he fits right in on Texas’ roster now and has the ability to make an immediate impact akin to what former five-star Colin Simmons did this season.
The Texarkana (Texas) Pleasant Grove standout dodged a lot of national events and we would have loved to see him against elite competition. That didn’t happen, but with his presence off the edge, his length and his ability to push the pocket back into the quarterback, Jackson has special ability and a five-star ranking was warranted.
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Gorney’s Take: When Deuce Knight has it going well, there might not be a smoother quarterback in this class as the Auburn signee throws a beautiful ball, looks great doing it and hits his receiver in rhythm. Over the last year to 18 months, the Lucedale (Miss.) George County standout has put together more and more impressive performances including at the Rivals Five-Star last summer.
Ole Miss battled Auburn to the end and it was because coach Lane Kiffin saw the same things in Knight as we did – someone who has tremendous arm strength, fluidity and has improved his accuracy a ton since the beginning of his high school career.
If Michael Penix is the comp and Penix was a first-round NFL Draft pick, then we think Knight deserves a five-star ranking as well.
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Gorney’s Take: When you look at Amare Adams in person at 6-foot-4 and 300 pounds, the Clemson signee looks like an unstoppable force up the middle with little bad weight and a projection to be one of the next best interior guys for the Tigers. He certainly has that potential as Clemson has developed many of these players over the years and pumped them into the NFL. Ten former Clemson defensive linemen are currently on NFL rosters and Adams could be next.
He was not dominant at all times during the Navy All-American Bowl week, but when Adams was good, he was great and could not be stopped by interior offensive linemen during practice. Adams has the power, speed, strength and no doubt size to be one of the best defensive tackles in college football for years to come.
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Gorney’s Take: Na’eem Offord nearly slid out of five-star status and it’s mainly because we’re not absolutely certain where he’s going to play at the next level and how that’s going to translate to the NFL. Still, the Oregon signee and former Ohio State commit is too talented, and perhaps too versatile, to keep off the five-star list.
Offord might grow out of playing strictly cornerback and could be a nickel. Or maybe he moves to safety and similar to DJ Pickett and others, he’s a good-enough athlete to even move to offense and possibly play some receiver.
He had some good and some bad moments during the Under Armour All-America Game week but overall, he’s still a really special prospect in this class.
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