Former Times News sport writer Jason Boris (Tamaqua, PA) has once again proved that he is the king of mock drafts. Boris’ 2025 NFL mock draft appeared in Thursday’s edition of the Times News, which marked its 25th anniversary appearing in the newspaper.

In what he deemed one of the hardest drafts to project in years, Boris finished in third place out of 170 entries in The Huddle Report’s (www.thehuddlereport.com) mock draft scoring contest, which is considered the most respected NFL mock draft grading service out there. Boris successfully predicted 29 of the 32 players to go in the first round, and matched 11 of those players with the team that actually ended up selecting them.

In The Huddle Report’s scoring system, you get one point for each player placed in the first round, and two points for matching a player to the team that selected them. Boris finished with 51 points, which was just one point shy of becoming the first-ever repeat champion in The Huddle Report’s history. Last year, Boris produced a historic mock draft (59 points), which tied for the highest scoring mock draft ever recorded.

This season, The Huddle Report’s Cory Rindone, and Nick Jacobs from Kansas City’s KSHB 41 News, took top honors with 52 points each.

Since debuting his mock draft in The Huddle Report in 2009, Boris has finished in the “Top 10” in 10 of the 17 years, including three runner-up finishes (2011, 2013 and 2015) in addition to last year’s championship mock.

Boris, regarded as the most accurate mock drafter in the industry for 8 of the last 14 years, has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, Sports Illustrated and the Washington Post, in addition to making appearances on sports podcasts and radio stations all across the county.

He is currently The Huddle Report’s reigning “Mock Draft King of the Hill,” which compiles an average score of a person’s mock draft from the previous five years. Boris’ five-year average is 48.2 points, which is four points better than second-place Brandan Donahue of the website Sharp Football Analysis (44.2).

Boris has been named the “King of the Hill” a record eight times (2012-2017, 2024 and 2025), as his annual mock draft is not only viewed locally by Times News readers, but also by thousands across the world, including several NFL teams.