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The Smartest, Toughest 2025 NFL Draft Prospect Comes Out of Middlebury
Meet Thomas Perry - the "Total Package"


FEBRUARY 26, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH
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1. The Smartest, Toughest 2025 NFL Draft Prospect Comes Out of Middlebury
Division-III Middlebury vs. Georgia 👀
Advantage: OG/C Thomas Perry
@BigDuke50 calls him "Thomas the Tank" bc he's one of the strongest players in the draft. Tireless worker. Just needs reps and development. Has improved each day at EW practices.
— Dane Brugler (@dpbrugler)
2:43 AM • Jan 28, 2025
by Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic
“Rule No. 1 for being a football player is you have to love all parts of being a football player — even the stuff most dread. Football players, the real ones, live for the strain. And Middlebury Division III All-American offensive lineman Thomas Perry, arguably the strongest player in the 2025 NFL Draft, from a school small enough to lose on a map, is a real one.

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