Potential Saints first-round pick continues to tumble down recent prospect rankings ahead of 2025 NFL Draft
If you look at recent 2025 NFL mock drafts, the New Orleans Saints take Arizona Wildcats wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan fairly often. McMillan is a big-bodied wideout, who made a lot of plays with the football in his hands. He could be an addition to their passing game that makes a ton of sense. With that in […]
If you look at recent 2025 NFL mock drafts, the New Orleans Saints take Arizona Wildcats wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan fairly often. McMillan is a big-bodied wideout, who made a lot of plays with the football in his hands. He could be an addition to their passing game that makes a ton of sense.
With that in mind, draft analysts have had their evaluation of McMillan waver a bit in recent weeks. Sometimes, he is ranked as the best wideout in the class. Other times, he's fallen to the edge of the top five.
His mock draft projections have seen a slip at times as well. McMillan even gets into the 20's of round one in some mocks. Earlier in the offseason, he rarely got out of the top ten picks – ever.
Tet McMillan's stock
In Daniel Jeremiah's latest 2025 NFL Draft prospect rankings, the Arizona product has slipped a little bit further down. While it was only a two-spot drop, McMillan is now his fourth-ranked tie receiver – if you count two-way star Travis Hunter.
McMillan is a tall, rangy receiver with a Drake London-like skill set. He primarily lines up outside, though he’ll take some reps in the slot. He lacks ideal suddenness or burst in his release, but he’s a smooth, easy mover. His tape is littered with contested catches. Some of that spawns from an inability to consistently create separation, but it’s also because he’s so comfortable using his plus size to win 50/50 balls. He has outstanding body control and high-point skills. His catch radius is a real weapon in the red zone. He’s been productive after the catch because of his strength and physicality. Overall, I thought London played with more urgency as a prospect, but McMillan has the potential to provide a similar impact at the next level. — Daniel Jeremiah
Texas' Matthew Golden and Ohio State's Emeka Egbuka have both moved just ahead of McMillan for Jeremiah, holding the 16th and 17th ranks, with McMillan at 18th overall.
Fair or Fake?
I'm of the belief that McMillan's stock shouldn't have been affected much by his Pro Day testing. He was never going to test with blazing speed, but his smooth movement and dynamic downfield ability on the outside is really exciting as we all try to project these players to the next level.
If you believe that McMillan is good enough of an athlete to work in your scheme, his workout or testing numbers should not sway you enough to work away from that concept at this point.
With Arizona, he consistently proved that he could win jump ball opportunities, as well as work underneath or in the middle of the field and break open chunk gains after the catch. For the Saints, he should definitely be in play at pick nine.