The 2025 college football campaign has yet to kick off, and we’re still nearly a whole year away from the 2026 NFL Draft, with the 2027 draft even further down the road.

But Clemson rising sophomore wide receiver Bryant Wesco Jr. is already a very tantalizing NFL Draft prospect, according to one national outlet.

A former consensus top-35 recruit nationally coming out of Midlothian (Texas) High School, Wesco shined as a true freshman in 2024, when he caught 41 passes for 708 yards — a team-high 17.3-yard average — and five touchdowns over 12 games (11 starts). The 6-foot-2, 180-pounder was named a freshman All-American by multiple outlets, including Pro Football Focus (PFF).

Looking way ahead to the 2027 NFL Draft, PFF listed Wesco as one college football player who “already has scouts drooling.”

“The Tigers have two star sophomores at receiver between Wesco and T.J. Moore, but we’ll highlight the former here,” PFF’s Max Chadwick wrote. “Wesco’s 707 receiving yards trailed only Jeremiah Smith and Ryan Williams among true freshmen wideouts while his 2.21 yards per route run were fifth and led the Tigers this season. He showed off his upside most in Clemson’s ACC Championship win over SMU, where he caught eight passes for 142 yards and two touchdowns.”

Wesco’s receiving yards against SMU were the most by a freshman in ACC Championship Game history, and tied for the second-most of a player of any classification in ACC title game history.

The ACC title game marked Wesco’s third 100-yard game of the season, and he became only the fifth Clemson true freshman with three or more 100-yard receiving games since the NCAA instituted permanent freshman eligibility in 1972.

Wesco’s average of 17.3 yards per catch last season was the highest by a Clemson player with at least 40 catches since Tee Higgins in 2019 (19.8) and the best by a Tiger freshman with 40 or more receptions since Justyn Ross in 2018 (21.7).

Wesco was ranked by PFF as the seventh-best returning wide receiver in college football entering the 2025 season, while he was ranked by ESPN as the eighth-best receiver in college football for 2025.