With the 2025 NFL Draft complete, 257 former college standouts have new pro football homes.
So which of the newcomers will make the most immediate impacts?
Oddsmakers from the top online sportsbooks have weighed in with fresh Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year odds, and Las Vegas Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty and New York Giants EDGE Abdul Carter are the current favorites.
Heisman Trophy winner and two-way standout Travis Hunter is a wild card in both races, ranking third among the favorites as a wide receiver and cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Following we break down the early odds and outlook for each of the NFL ROY awards.
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NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year odds: Will Jeanty run away with award?
The 4-13 Raiders finished dead last in the NFL in rushing in 2024 with 1,357 total yards.
So there wasn’t a better immediate draft fit than Jeanty, the former Boise State standout and Heisman runner-up who rushed for 2,601 yards last season. That’s 890 more yards than anyone else in the FBS ranks — and, more importantly, nearly double the Silver and Black’s 17-game team total.
Early OROY bettors certainly like the fit as Jeanty, the sixth overall pick, quickly supplanted the draft’s No. 1-overall pick, Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward, as the early favorite.
Jeanty is attempting to become the first running back to win OROY honors since Saquon Barkley in 2018. Four quarterbacks, including Jayden Daniels and C.J. Stroud the last two seasons, and a pair of wide receivers, have taken home the last six OROY awards.
Ward, who threw an FBS-most 39 TD passes and only seven interceptions last season at Miami (Fla.), is expected to beat out 2023 second-round pick Will Levis and start for the 3-14 Titans whose QBs tossed 22 TD passes and 21 interceptions last season.
Meanwhile, Hunter had 96 receptions for 1,258 yards and 15 TDs while averaging 113.9 total snaps per game last season at the University of Colorado. He is expected to start immediately at wide receiver for the Jags while playing part time in defensive packages which could expand as the season progresses.
Hunter’s dual prowess (4 interceptions, 11 passes defensed) pushed him over the top in the 2024 Heisman voting, but he won’t have that luxury in the NFL, which splits its rookie awards.
Bettors, though, haven’t exactly been deterred so far as Hunter had attracted the highest percentage of the OROY handle (16%) and the second-highest share of the DROY money at DraftKings Sportsbook, as of two days after the conclusion of the draft.
NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year odds: Carter favored to bag honor
With the third-overall pick in the draft, the Giants swooped up Penn State’s Carter, who recorded 12 sacks as part of an FBS-most 24 tackles for losses last season.
Defensive lineman/edge rushers have bagged five of the last six NFL DROY awards, and Carter is favored to make it six of seven with +263 sportsbook-consensus odds as of April 28.
Atlanta Falcons EDGE Jalon Walker (+725) and Hunter (+888) entered pst-draft week as the only players with better than 11-1 consensus odds.
Walker starred collegiately at in-state Georgia with 6.5 sacks and 11 TFLs last season and has a golden opportunity to elevate an Atlanta pass rush that has produced the NFL’s fewest sacks (141) over the last five seasons.
Hunter is third in the DROY odds but likely will have to play at least 50-60 percent of Jacksonville’s defensive snaps to have a chance of beating out his full-time first-year defensive compatriots for the award.
