NFL Draft
3/4/25
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Isaiah Neyor 2025 NFL Draft: Scouting Report For Nebraska Cornhuskers WR
Height: 6036 (verified)
Weight: 222lbs (verified)
Year: Redshirt Senior
Pro Comparison: Cornelius Johnson
Scouting Overview
Nebraska Cornhuskers wide receiver Isaiah Neyor is a height/weight/speed developmental talent who should warrant consideration as a long-term stash in hopes he can live up to his athletic potential. He was a productive talent at Wyoming before transferring to Texas and then Nebraska.
He’s a supersized wide receiver with massive strides that eat up turf and allow him to fly down the field and create vertical separation. However, his route running and ball skills are generally underdeveloped and lead to frustrating inconsistencies with his targets and adjustments to the football.
2025 NFL Combine Results
| Position | Name | School | 40-Yard Dash | 10-Yard Split | Broad Jump | Vertical Jump | 3-Cone Drill | 20-Yard Shuttle | Bench Press |
| WR | Isaiah Neyor | Nebraska | 4.4 | 1.51 | 133 | 38 |
Positives
- Boasts uncoachable size and linear explosiveness to play on the perimeter
- Long strides allow him to consistently stack and separate outside on vertical routes
- Big-bodied frame allows him to secure tough catches through contact in the middle of the field
Negatives
- Has some frustrating misplays of the football in both downfield and middle-of-the-field targets; he can fight the ball away from his frame
- Offers a very modest receiving profile from a route-running perspective
- Will need to play more into his size and strength against press coverage to win at the line of scrimmage
Background
Neyor is from Fort Worth, TX, and played high school football at Lamar HS. There, he was a 2-star recruit (247 Sports) who accepted an offer to play at Wyoming over offers from programs like Incarnate Word and Western Illinois. Neyor was enrolled at Wyoming for three seasons, including a redshirt year in 2019. His second freshman season in 2020 saw him play in half a dozen games during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic campaign. He broke out in 2021 with more than 800 receiving yards and 12 receiving scores. After his third season, he entered the transfer portal as a 3-star transfer (247 Sports).
Neyor landed at Texas ahead of the 2022 season but tore his ACL during fall camp. He did not play in any games that season and then fell behind on the depth chart. Neyor caught one pass in two seasons with the Longhorns before entering the transfer portal once again after the 2023 season. He landed this time with the Nebraska Cornhuskers and put together a modest year of production.
Neyor once again put his name in the transfer portal but withdrew his application in early 2025, instead accepting an invitation to the 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl as he transitioned to the NFL.
Tale Of The Tape
Neyor is an enticing athlete who is sure to have a number of opportunities to catch on at the NFL level, thanks to his surreal blend of height, speed, and explosiveness. The tools are worth a flyer to develop, although Neyor’s development feels like a bit of a long shot on account of his status as an older player.
Neyor’s growth and refinement of his game has been stunted by injuries and getting caught in the backlog at Texas, and his usage and role for the Cornhuskers was supremely basic. He ran go routes, shallow crosses, and hitches at a high rate. Nearly half of his targets this season for Nebraska were collected under 5 yards downfield between the numbers or 20+ air yards downfield outside the numbers — with go routes and shallow crosses.
His more advanced routes illustrate the ability to sell a double move on the perimeter, but hard-angled breaks are challenging. His long strides pose challenges for snapping off the stem and creating separation at the top of the route.
Neyor will need to sharpen his breaks and find more dynamic change of direction ability, or alternatively, find more physicality at the top of the route and manhandle corners. He generally has a lot of potential to play with power. That includes against press releases, on the route stem, and at the catch point.
Despite a massive catch radius with a large wingspan, Neyor’s consistency away from his body will create inconsistent results at the catch point. He has fought the football, trying to flash his hands late. He’s allowed contact to jar him loose from the football, and he has allowed himself to get pushed too tight to the perimeter and ridden out of bounds before getting his feet in bounds. It’s the little things that make Neyor feel like a potential sleeping giant if the light bulb can come on, but he’s got to lean more into his rare physicality profile.
Neyor does pop with his high-point ability and skill to elevate and float off the ground. He’s an excellent athlete, as evidenced by his prolific NFL Combine performance. But he’s rough around the edges and too underdeveloped to contribute to an NFL passing game without significant growth or an overly limited role.
In a perfect world, he'd have a special team background to fall back on, but he's been largely unused in this phase of the game and, as a result, is a complete projection in that regard as well.
Ideal Scheme Fit, Role
Neyor projects as a developmental Z-receiver. He has the traditional build of an X-receiver, but his vertical element is comfortably his best quality, and asking him to learn how to win on the outside as a “lift” player is presumably his best ticket to finding a role.
He could, theoretically, compete for a special teams role as a gunner as well — but he’s played just 14 snaps on special teams in the last three seasons combined.
Grade: 68.50/100.00, Seventh Round Value
Big Board Rank: TBD
Position Rank: TBD
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