The 2025 NFL Combine is officially over. While it is certainly a great source of information, we all know that the Combine doesn’t mean everything. This is true for both real football and fantasy football. But what if the NFL Combine did mean everything?

In this article, I’ll compare 2025 prospects to current NFL players based purely on their Combine numbers. I won’t bore you with the details, but I built a formula that uses Euclidean Distance on NFL Combine metrics to find the historical players who tested most similarly to some of this year’s top prospects.

After finding these Combine-based comps, we can do a quick reality check using other metrics and more context, but this is mostly about those sweet, sweet testing numbers.

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2025 NFL Combine Player Comparisons

Omarion Hampton (RB – North Carolina) Is Cam Akers

Tale of the Tape

• Height: Hampton 6-foot-0; Akers 5-foot-10
• Weight: Hampton 221 pounds, Akers 217 pounds
• 40-Yard Dash: Hampton 4.46 sec, Akers 4.47 sec
• Vertical: Hampton 38″, Akers 35.5″
• Bench: Hampton 18 reps, Akers 20 reps
• Broad Jump: Hampton 130″, Akers 122″
• 3-Cone: Both N/A
• Shuttle: Hampton 4.40 sec, Akers 4.42 sec

Technically, Bo Scarbrough beats out Cam Akers as Omarion Hampton’s most similar player, according to the formula. But Akers was more similar in the most critical metrics of weight and 40-yard time, so I made an executive decision to feature the current free agent. Still, this isn’t a perfect match. Hampton is both slightly faster and slightly heavier. The only metric where Akers posted a “better” number was the bench press; perhaps height if you prefer shorter backs.

Reality Check

This feels like an insulting comp now that we have seen Akers struggle with injuries and efficiency in the pros, but it’s fairly reasonable if we just look at both players as prospects. After all, the Rams selected Akers in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft. Prior to his strong Combine, Hampton was considered a second-round pick by consensus mock drafts.

The similarities don’t end there. Both backs were top recruits out of high school, with Hampton being a four-star while Akers was a five-star and one of the top players in his class. Both spent their college careers in the ACC and declared after three years.

However, Hampton was more productive in college, with his sophomore and junior years being better than Akers’ best season. That and his marginally better numbers at the NFL Combine should be enough to earn him the first-round draft capital that Akers missed. Hopefully, Hampton can avoid the injury bug that has plagued Akers so far in his NFL career.

Elic Ayomanor (WR – Stanford) Is Justin Jefferson

Tale of the Tape

• Height: Ayomanor 6-foot-2, Jefferson 6-foot-1
• Weight: Ayomanor 206 pounds, Jefferson 202 pounds
• 40-Yard Dash: Ayomanor 4.44 sec, Jefferson 4.43 sec
• Vertical: Ayomanor 38.5″, Jefferson 37.5″
• Bench: Both N/A
• Broad Jump: Ayomanor 127″, Jefferson 126″
• 3-Cone: Both N/A
• Shuttle: Both N/A

I promise I didn’t begin this article intending to compare anyone to Justin Jefferson. However, the numbers don’t lie. In terms of NFL Combine performance, all that separates these two is three inches, four pounds and 0.01 seconds across five measurements. They even chose to skip the same three events.

Reality Check

Even ignoring the dominance we’ve seen from Jefferson in the pros, it’s clear that Elic Ayomanor is not the same level of prospect as Jefferson was in 2020. In two seasons at Stanford, Ayomanor recorded 1,841 yards and 12 touchdowns. That’s nothing to sneeze at, but it’s essentially the same as just Jefferson’s legendary junior year at LSU: 1,540 yards and 18 touchdowns.

Where Jefferson was a first-round pick, Ayomanor is currently projected to be a late second. He should rise following a strong Combine performance, but there is no guarantee that he will be off the board in the first round, let alone the mid-first, like Jefferson was going off at 22nd overall.

While it’s certainly not a bad thing for Ayomanor to have put up similar numbers to the best receiver in the league, this is a clear case where the Combine doesn’t tell us everything. After all, according to my formula, Ayomanor’s next closest comp, who also posted eerily similar numbers to Jefferson, is Cornelius Johnson. In case you need a refresher on Johnson, he was drafted in the seventh round last year by the Chargers before eventually being waived and landing on the Packers’ practice squad.

My bold prediction is that Ayomanor’s success at the NFL level will be somewhere in between Jefferson’s and Johnson’s.

Harold Fannin Jr. (TE – Bowling Green) Is Greg Dulcich

Tale of the Tape

• Height: Fannin 6-foot-3, Dulcich 6-foot-4
• Weight: Fannin 241 pounds, Dulcich 243 pounds
• 40-Yard Dash: Fannin 4.71 sec, Dulcich 4.69 sec
• Vertical: Fannin 34″, Dulcich 34″
• Bench: Fannin 22, Dulcich 16
• Broad Jump: Fannin 118″, Dulcich 122″
• 3-Cone: Fannin 6.97 sec, Dulcich 7.05 sec
• Shuttle: Fannin 4.39 sec, Dulcich 4.37 sec

Given that they both participated in all eight measured events, Harold Fannin Jr. and Greg Dulcich have incredibly similar numbers. The one glaring difference is that Fannin Jr. easily outdid Dulcich’s lackluster showing in the bench press. Otherwise, there’s little to choose between these two receiving tight ends.

Reality Check

Although they may be nearly identical as athletes, Dulcich and Fannin Jr. are very different prospects. Dulcich was a receiving-first tight end during his time at UCLA, ranking 13th among tight ends in targets during his senior season. Fannin Jr. is on a whole other level. He recorded more yards in 2024 (1,555) than Dulcich did in all four of his years as a Bruin (1,353). To be fair to Dulcich, Fannin Jr. literally set the NCAA record for yards in a season by a tight end, as he absolutely dominated his MAC competition at Bowling Green.

However, I don’t think this comparison is entirely valueless. So far in his NFL career, Dulcich has shown flashes as a receiver but struggled to block well enough to earn consistent playing time. That’s certainly a potential concern for Fannin Jr., who may have out-lifted Dulcich on the bench but also turned his sled during the blocking drills. This, combined with his relatively small size for a tight end, gives us reason to wonder if Fannin Jr. can block at the NFL level.

On the other hand, Fannin was actually PFF’s 10th-highest-graded run-blocking TE in this class (although his pass-blocking grades were abysmal in a small sample). Personally, I’m willing to bet on Fannin Jr.’s massive production, but the comparison with Dulcich may be a cautionary tale about chasing receiving upside above all else at the tight end position.

Ollie Gordon II (RB – Oklahoma State) Is Tyler Allgeier

Tale of the Tape

• Height: Gordon 6-foot-1, Allgeier 6-foot-1
• Weight: Gordon 226 pounds, Allgeier 224 pounds
• 40-Yard Dash: Gordon 4.61 sec, Allgeier 4.60 sec
• Vertical: Gordon 34.5″, Allgeier 33.0″
• Bench: Both N/A
• Broad Jump: Gordon 120″, Allgeier 120″
• 3-Cone: Both N/A
• Shuttle: Both N/A

More like “Taller Tyler Allgeier,” am I right? A two-inch height difference is significant, but it’s the only meaningful difference in Ollie Gordon II and Allgeier’s NFL Combine stats. Neither participated in the bench press or the agility drills, but their near-identical weights and 40 times make this a solid comparison.

Reality Check

I expected Gordon II to be a much better overall prospect than Allgeier, but their numbers aren’t as different as you might think. Allgeier had 2,736 rushing yards over his final two years at BYU on 426 attempts, while Gordon II put up 2,612 yards on 475 attempts. Allgeier also outpaced Gordon II in PFF Rushing Grade, with grades of 93.1 and 90.4 in his final two seasons. Gordon II posted a similarly elite 90.4 Grade in his sophomore season but recorded just a 76.9 in his junior season. In fact, Gordon II’s metrics and production regressed massively across the board in 2024.

However, there are some notes in Gordon II’s favor. He is an early declare and faced tougher competition at Oklahoma State than Allgeier did at BYU during their time as independents. Allgeier also fell to the 151st pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, while Gordon II’s current expected draft position is 119 (although the difference between fourth and fifth-round draft capital for running backs isn’t much). Gordon II was also more productive as a receiver than Allgeier, and his sophomore season is still the most impressive single year of either’s college career. He even earned a few Heisman votes. Especially if we say that Gordon II’s struggles this season were injury-related, he has a clear argument as the more talented of these two backs 

That said, it’s not like being compared to Allgeier is a bad thing for Gordon II. Allgeier recorded 1,000 rushing yards as a rookie, and he has continued to post solid advanced metrics while playing behind Bijan Robinson over the last two years. However, Allgeier’s career in the NFL so far is a good reminder that sometimes situation is more important than talent. Gordon II is one of many likely day-three backs in this draft who potentially could put up 1,000 yards in the right situation. However, he could also easily land in a spot where he is simply a handcuff.

With that in mind, I recommend focusing on landing spots instead of trying to nail talent evaluations when drafting rookie running backs for your fantasy teams.

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Ted Chmyz is a fantasy football contributor for FantasyPros.com. Find him on Twitter @Tchmyz for more fantasy content or to ask questions.