2025 Dynasty Fantasy Football Rookie Profile: Isaiah Bond, WR Texas

Isaiah Bond is a name college football fans and devy players have been familiar with for years. He was highly recruited out of Georgia and played football for two powerhouse programs in Alabama and Texas. However, Bond has virtually no college production to speak of. Is he just a name or is there more to his profile than meets the eye?

The Stats

Bond went to Buford High School in Georgia but struggled to put together a productive season. As a junior, Bond caught 15 passes for 382 yards and five touchdowns. He then followed that up with a senior campaign of 42 catches, 909 yards, and seven touchdowns. He earned the 43rd overall rank in the class of 2022 not because of his skill as a football player, but rather his speed. Bond won multiple Georgia state championships in both the 100-meter and 200-meter races.

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He committed to Alabama and was nothing more than a rotational piece during his freshman season. Bond then took a major step forward in 2023 with Jalen Milroe under center, but he was still outproduced by Jermaine Burton that season. After the departure of Nick Saban, Bond decided to transfer to Texas to play with Steve Sarkisian but his 2024 season left a lot to be desired.

Bond looked good across the first five weeks of the season but that was greatly aided by Texas playing the easiest schedule in the country to start the year with games against Colorado State, Michigan, UTSA, UL Monroe, and Mississippi State. Following that stretch, Bond was a complete afterthought and struggled even to find the field. In the three most important games of the season (the SEC championship and two CFP games), Bond ran only 17.6 routes per game and had two catches for 30 yards in total. Seven different Texas players ran more routes than Bond in their two playoff games.

The Film

This isn’t going to be the most glowing prospect profile you’ve ever read, so I want to make sure I show the good that comes with Isaiah Bond. Throughout this article I’ll highlight a lot of negatives but there are some positives too!

 

Bond’s biggest strength, and maybe only strength, is his speed with the ball in his hands. One of the frustrating things about watching Bond is that he doesn’t always play as fast as he can, and he’s an inconsistent route runner. However, throughout this game against Colorado State, you can see how dangerous he is when he turns on the jets.

Bond’s potential role in an NFL offense will be similar to someone like Rondale Moore in the sense that Bond will see targets behind the line of scrimmage and 35 yards downfield but nothing in between. He isn’t built to succeed in the intermediate part of the field and that’s okay; not everyone can succeed at all three levels.

There is another concern I have about Bond that routinely pops up throughout this video and that is his hands and play strength. Unsurprisingly for someone his size, Bond caught only 31% of his contested targets in college. He only has a drop rate of 6.7%, which is about average, but he does struggle to play through physical defenders.

The Measurables

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Bond somehow found a way to run a 4.39-second 40-yard dash and be a disappointment. This combine performance was no surprise; everyone expected Bond to be small and fast. However, Bond spent the entire lead-up to the event talking about how he was going to run a 4.2 and break the record. So when he only ran a 4.39, it came across as a huge disappointment. It’s also no surprise that he didn’t do any of the other testing events based on his 10-yard split, which was fairly slow compared to his overall 40-time.

The Value

In December, Bond was routinely mocked as a first-round pick, and some people viewed him as the WR3 in the class ahead of Emeka Egbuka and Matthew Golden.

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Since that peak in mid-December, he’s steadily fallen and now ranks in the middle of the third round. So many other receivers did well at the combine and have risen up draft boards that Bond had to be pushed down. At this moment, I’d be shocked if Bond is even a second-round pick in April. With an ADP of 70th overall, he’s projected to go at the start of the third round but I could see that falling even more. If he fell to day three I wouldn’t even be that surprised.

The Dynasty Outlook

Isaiah Bond is currently going as the 25th pick in Superflex rookie drafts according to DLF’s ADP, which would mean he’s the first pick of the third round which feels extremely rich to me.

Courtesy of DLF’s Superflex Rookie ADP.

Bond is still being propped up because of name recognition and one cool play against Auburn in 2023 than because of his skill. He had only one 100-yard receiving game in his entire NFL career and it came against UTSA this season. Over his last two seasons, he has 15 games over 30 receiving yards with 12 games under that mark. I know that seems like an arbitrary cutoff, but it’s such a low bar to clear which highlights just how unproductive he was throughout his career.

There isn’t a world where I’m taking Isaiah Bond over RJ Harvey, Jaylin Noel, or DJ Giddens based on what we know at this moment and I think there’s even more room for Bond to fall from now until the end of the NFL draft.

Isaiah Bond is unproductive, small, and not as fast as we previously thought. If he is a late, day-two pick then I’m comfortable fully fading Bond at his current price in rookie drafts.