Nfl All-pro 2025 Midseason Picks And Predictions

The play is quickly unfolding, and truthful are nan races for nan individual accolades. 

Through 8 weeks, a fewer truths are starting to emerge. Patrick Mahomes is starring nan MVP race, trying to go only nan seventh subordinate successful convention history to triumph nan grant astatine slightest 3 times, joining nan ranks of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Johnny Unitas and others. 

In Indianapolis, Jonathan Taylor is making a difficult complaint astatine Offensive Player of nan Year pinch a chance of becoming nan 2nd backmost successful arsenic galore years to eclipse nan 2,000-yard barrier.

Finally, Myles Garrett whitethorn beryllium connected different losing Browns team, but he has a morganatic changeable astatine mounting nan single-season sacks record, presently co-owned by T.J. Watt and Michael Strahan astatine 22.5. With 10 sacks successful 8 games, it’s not impossible.

So who makes our All-Pro squad astatine nan midseason juncture? We commencement astatine quarterback, wherever a acquainted look is erstwhile again playing lights out.

First squad (1): Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs

Second squad (1): Matthew Stafford, Rams

Mahomes is nan betting favourite connected each book successful America, and rightfully so. After watching Kansas City morph into a defense-first squad nan past 2 seasons, Mahomes and his discourtesy are back. The two-time MVP has thrown for 2,099 yards and accounted for 21 touchdowns pinch 4 interceptions. 

Meanwhile, Stafford entered his Week 8 bye pinch 1,866 passing yards and 17 touchdowns. The Rams person 1 of nan league’s astir explosive pass-catching duos, pinch Puka Nacua and Davante Adams, and Stafford has taken afloat advantage.

Running back

First squad (1): Jonathan Taylor, Colts

Second squad (1): Christian McCaffrey, 49ers

It’s intolerable to overstate really awesome Taylor has been for nan Colts. The seasoned backmost leads nan NFL pinch 12 rushing touchdowns and 850 rushing yards, helping nan highest-scoring discourtesy successful nan convention pinch 33.8 points per game.

Meanwhile, McCaffrey has been awesome for nan 49ers. The 2023 Offensive Player of nan Year mightiness triumph nan grant again, ranking 13th successful rushing yards (490) and eighth successful receiving yards (559). 

First squad (1): Kyle Juszczyk, 49ers

Second squad (1): Reggie Gilliam, Bills

Juszczyk has been a versatile subordinate complete nan past 9 years successful San Francisco, earning 9 Pro Bowl berths and 2 All-Pro honors. It’s a bully stake he’ll get a 3rd this week. As for Gilliam, he’s nan lead blocker successful Buffalo’s tally game, helping James Cook find unfastened spaces. He’s played 112 violative snaps for Buffalo this year.

Wide receivers

First squad (3): Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Seahawks; Puka Nacua, Rams; Ja’Marr Chase, Bengals

Second squad (3): Justin Jefferson, Vikings; George Pickens, Cowboys; Amon-Ra St. Brown, Lions

Smith-Njigba is an easy choice. He leads nan NFL by a wide separator pinch 819 receiving yards contempt Seattle being connected a bye successful Week 7. Nacua is besides an evident telephone pinch 616 yards and 2 scores contempt missing 2 weeks. Chase is coming disconnected a Triple Crown run and ranks first successful receptions (70), 2nd successful yardage (720) and eighth successful receiving touchdowns (five).

On nan 2nd team, Jefferson has 41 receptions and 602 yards contempt playing pinch J.J. McCarthy and Carson Wentz. Pickens has been 1 of nan champion offseason additions successful nan convention pinch 685 yards and six touchdowns, helping Dallas enactment live successful the playoff picture. Finally, St. Brown has 50 catches connected 61 targets while notching a league-high 7 receiving touchdowns.

Amon-Ra St. Brown scored successful nan Lions’ Week 7 triumph complete nan Buccaneers. / David Reginek-Imagn Images

First squad (1): Tyler Warren, Colts

Second squad (1): Trey McBride, Cardinals

Last year, we saw a rookie tight extremity (Brock Bowers of nan Raiders) gain first-team All-Pro honors for nan first clip successful convention history. It mightiness hap again successful 2025, pinch Warren starring everyone astatine nan position pinch 37 catches and 492 yards, including 3 touchdowns. 

As for McBride, he’s nan main motor for nan Cardinals’ offense. He has 47 receptions for 421 yards pinch 4 touchdowns, including 3 efforts of astatine slightest 70 yards successful 7 games. 

Left tackle

First squad (1): Garett Bolles, Broncos

Second squad (1): Trent Williams, 49ers

Bolles has been an anchor connected nan near broadside for Denver. His Pro Football Focus people of 86.0 is 3rd among each tackles, a fig that matches up pinch his ascendant play successful some nan tally and walk games pinch zero sacks allowed.

Williams is simply a four-time All-Pro and nan 37-year-old continues to play astatine a precocious level. He’s only allowed six backmost hits each year. 

First squad (1): Quenton Nelson, Colts

Second squad (1): Joel Bitonio, Browns

Nelson is arguably nan champion defender of his era alongside Bitonio and Joe Thuney, and he’s having different elite campaign. The 29-year-old hasn’t allowed a sack this play while permitting conscionable 2 backmost hits. He’s besides a immense portion of nan line, which has Jonathan Taylor flirting pinch a 2,000-yard pace. 

Center

First squad (1): Creed Humphrey, Chiefs

Second squad (1): Drew Dalman, Bears

Humphrey mightiness beryllium nan champion violative lineman successful nan league, sloppy of position. The fifth-year pivot man has fixed up zero sacks, 1 hit, 2 hurries and 3 pressures connected Patrick Mahomes. Already pinch 2 rings, Humphrey is starring an elite violative onslaught erstwhile more.

First squad (1): Trey Smith, Chiefs

Second squad (1): Quinn Meinerz, Broncos

Smith earned his first Pro Bowl motion successful 2024 and could beryllium an All-Pro 1 twelvemonth later. Smith has nan second-highest PFF pass-blocking people astatine 81.2 and hasn’t allowed a sack this season. Alongside Humphrey, Kansas City has nan champion interior tandem successful nan league.

Right tackle

First squad (1): Penei Sewell, Lions

Second squad (1): Lane Johnson, Eagles

Sewell has been nan golden modular astatine correct tackle complete nan past 2 seasons, earning first-team All-Pro honors successful 2023 and ’24. There’s nary logic for thing to change. Sewell has been a stone connected nan correct broadside for Detroit, permitting a azygous backmost deed done 7 weeks.

First squad (2): Myles Garrett, Browns; Brian Burns, Giants

Second squad (2): Nik Bonitto, Broncos; Byron Young, Rams

Garrett has been utterly phenomenal contempt nan Browns being 2–6. He leads nan convention pinch 10 sacks, including 5 successful a 32–13 Week 8 nonaccomplishment to nan Patriots. Burns has besides been tremendous, tied pinch Garrett’s 10 sacks while besides posting 13 backmost hits. 

Bonitto mightiness beryllium nan astir underrated subordinate successful nan game, starring a wicked Denver walk rush. The Broncos are pacing to shatter nan 1984 Bears people of 72 sacks, and Bonitto has 8 and 17 backmost hits. Finally, Young has 9 sacks successful 7 games, creating havoc connected a Rams beforehand headlined by Jared Verse, nan reigning Defensive Rookie of nan Year.

Defensive tackles

First squad (2): Jeffery Simmons, Titans; Chris Jones, Chiefs 

Second squad (2): Maliek Collins, Browns; Calais Campbell, Cardinals

Simmons is simply a world-beater toiling successful comparative anonymity. The 28-year-old has 4.5 sacks to lead interior rushers while generating 8 tackles for loss. In Kansas City, Jones has only 2 sacks but has been everywhere, pinch 8 QB hits and six tackles for loss.

While Garrett deservedly gets nan attraction successful Cleveland, Collins has been a unit inside. He’s racked up 3.5 sacks successful his 10th year, antecedently having a career-high of five. Campbell has besides been a wonderment successful his age-39 season, pinch 3 sacks, 5 tackles for nonaccomplishment and 12 QB hits. 

Chris Jones has helped assistance nan Chiefs to a 5–3 record. / Denny Medley-Imagn Images

First squad (3): Jack Campbell, Lions; Bobby Wagner, Commanders; Devin Lloyd, Jaguars

Second squad (3): Jamien Sherwood, Jets; Demario Davis, Saints; Tremaine Edmunds, Bears

Campbell fills nan stat expanse each week. The 2023 first-round prime has 64 tackles, 3 sacks, 5 tackles for loss, 2 forced fumbles and a walk defensed. Then there’s Lloyd, who won September’s Defensive Player of nan Month pinch 4 interceptions this season, including a 99-yard pick-six of Patrick Mahomes. 

While nan Jets and Saints aren’t good, nary 1 should place Sherwood and Davis. Sherwood has been a linchpin successful nan middle, racking up 75 tackles, including 5 for nonaccomplishment and 4 passes defensed. Davis is still a menace astatine 36 years old, arsenic he tries to beryllium an All-Pro for nan sixth clip successful 7 seasons.

Cornerbacks

First squad (2): Quinyon Mitchell, Eagles; Patrick Surtain II, Broncos

Second squad (2): Jamel Dean, Buccaneers; DJ Turner II, Bengals

Mitchell has been awesome successful his 2nd year. Targeted nan fourth-most of immoderate subordinate (48 times), he’s allowed only a 47.9% drawback rate. Surtain has been targeted 30 times and hardly allowed much than a 50% clip pinch 19 receptions, helping Denver’s secondary go 1 of nan NFL’s vaunted units. 

In Tampa, Dean has led a young secondary and nabbed 3 interceptions, while Turner has been a agleam spot connected an atrocious Bengals defense, holding opponents to 16 completions connected 35 targets (45.7%) pinch conscionable 67 yards aft catch.

First squad (1): Trent McDuffie, Chiefs

Second squad (1): Kenny Moore II, Colts

McDuffie has been an All-Pro each of nan past 2 years, and he has a beardown lawsuit to make it 3 consecutive seasons. Versatile successful his expertise to descent wrong and out, McDuffie is besides fantabulous successful tally fits, ranking sixth among corners successful unreserved defense per PFF (with astatine slightest 100 snaps).

Moore has agelong been a gem connected nan wrong for nan Colts, and that’s continued nether caller coordinator Lou Anarumo. Moore has played exclusively successful nan slot, lining up only 4 times connected nan perimeter. The vet must enactment healthy, though, having missed 3 games.

Safeties

First squad (2): Derwin James Jr., Chargers; Kyle Hamilton, Ravens

Second squad (2): Jalen Pitre, Texans; Antoine Winfield Jr., Buccaneers

Hamilton hasn’t racked up nan individual numbers frankincense acold successful 2025, playing six games without a sack aliases interception. However, he grades supra each safeties connected PFF astatine 82.7 successful coverage. Nobody is amended astatine sticking to tight ends aliases receivers astatine nan position. 

Pitre is having a breakout run aft softly starring successful a secondary that has overshadowed him, pinch Derek Stingley Jr. and Kamari Lassiter connected nan corners. Pitre has been fantabulous for immoderate clip and is putting connected a show erstwhile much successful 2025 pinch 3 interceptions, 5 passes defensed and 2 tackles for loss. 

First squad (1): Brandon Aubrey, Cowboys

Second squad (1): Cameron Dicker, Chargers

Aubrey hasn’t missed a section extremity this season, going 16-of-16, including hitting each 5 of his attempts from 50-plus yards. Dicker has been astir arsenic good, connecting connected 18-of-19 section goals while hitting each 18 of his extra-point attempts. 

Punter

First squad (1): Jordan Stout, Ravens

Second squad (1): Blake Gillikin, Cardinals

Stout is sixth successful nan NFL for mean yards per punt astatine 49.9 but nan fourth-year seasoned is 2nd astatine 45.9 nett yards per boot. As for Gillikin, he’s punted 22 times, averaging 51.7 yards per punt pinch a nett mean of 45.4, ranking 4th and third, respectively. 

First squad (1): Chimere Dike, Titans

Second squad (1): Luke McCaffrey, Commanders

Dike has been nan Titans’ astir explosive subordinate done nan first half of nan year. The fourth-round rookie has 991 footwear return yards while averaging 26.0 yards per runback, 3rd of anybody pinch astatine slightest 20 attempts. McCaffrey has besides been a unit successful his 2nd twelvemonth pinch 750 yards and 30 yards/return.

Punt returner

First squad (1): Marcus Jones, Patriots

Second squad (1): Tory Horton, Seahawks

Horton leads nan convention pinch 238 punt return yards and a touchdown, showing why Seattle took him successful nan 5th information retired of Colorado State. Jones has been arsenic awesome pinch 216 yards and a touchdown, but connected conscionable 10 returns compared to Horton’s 16.

First squad (1): Kylen Granson, Eagles

Second squad (1): Dane Belton, Giants

Granson has been fantabulous each twelvemonth connected typical teams for Philadelphia, co-leading nan Eagles pinch 10 tackles. Belton has done a bully occupation connected defense successful a reserve role, but nan fourth-year pro has shined connected teams pinch 12 tackles, checking successful astatine 2nd league-wide. 

Long snapper

First squad (1): Andrew DePaola, Vikings

Second squad (1): Morgan Cox, Titans

DePaola has been 1 of nan champion agelong snappers successful nan convention since his rookie play successful 2014, being an All-Pro each of nan past 3 years. Cox is simply a five-time Pro Bowler, looking for his 2nd All-Pro berth.

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