This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/florida as ESPN Tabs Three Gators as Top 50 Players for 2025. Three of the Florida Gators ' best found themselves inside ESPN’s top 100 college football players for the upcoming season, which they released on Wednesday.

Florida football has 3 Gators among ESPN's list of top 100 college football players—DJ Lagway, Jake Slaughter and Caleb Banks—ahead of 2025.

On Wednesday, ESPN’s Field Yates released his first look at next year’s draft this week, projecting all 32 first-round picks. Florida landed two players on the list, with offensive tackle Austin Barber and defensive tackle Caleb Banks both projected to come off the board in the middle of Round 1.