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0:312025 NFL Draft Grades: Giants Select Abdul Carter No. 3
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1:59Top Immediate Impact 1st Rounders: Abdul Carter
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1:29Why The Giants Won Day 1
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0:58Abdul Carter Reflects on Being Third Overall Pick
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1:40NFC Winners & Losers: Best NFC Defensive Selection From Round 1
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2:27NFL Draft Recap: Giants Nab Abdul Carter at 3, Trade Up for Jaxson Dart
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11:22Top 5 Players In This Draft
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3:47Why Edge Abdul Carter Makes Sense To Giants
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1:17PSU's Franklin Will Be NFL Draft Day Man In Motion
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1:26CBS Sports Consensus Mock Draft: Pick 2
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1:272025 NFL Draft - Josh Pate's Players to Know: Edge Abdul Carter (Penn State)
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Prisco's "What Teams Should Do" Mock Draft: No. 2 Edge Abdul Carter (Penn State) to Browns
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1:052025 NFL Draft Player Comps: Edge Abdul Carter
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1:20Top Edge Rushers in the 2025 NFL Draft: No. 1 Abdul Carter (Penn State)
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1:002025 NFL Draft: Abdul Carter in contention for top 3 pick
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1:54Pete Prisco's Mock Draft: Giants select Edge Abdul Carter at No. 3
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2:07How Abdul Carter Had To Fight For A Penn State Scholarship Offer
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1:02PSU's Abdul Carter Makes Case As Top Overall NFL Draft Pick
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0:25Abdul Carter not expected to work out at Penn State Pro Day
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0:40Combine 2025: Highlights from Abdul Carter Press Conference
Draft Scouting Report
Rating: 91.75 (All-Pro potential)
Pro Comparison: Cliff Avril
Summary
Abdul Carter has been a productive pass rusher in his first full season fulfilling that obligation for the Nittany Lions. Carter is a bit shorter in stature, but makes up for that with his ability to bend at the waist and flatten at the high side of his rush. The Philadelphia native is still learning the intricacies of the position, such as block awareness.
About
- 2023-24: Two-time first-team All-Big Ten
- 2024: Bednarik Award finalist (nation's best defender)
- 2024: Big 10 Defensive Player of the Year
Strengths
- Great waist bend at the high side of his rush: Carter displays good flexibility to dip and bend the corner to the quarterback.
- Good play strength: Carter shows an ability to hold up against pressure as he is pushing upfield.
- Good quickness: He shows good quickness to exploit oversetting linemen.
Weaknesses
- Experience at edge rusher: Carter transitioned to a true edge rusher role from off-ball linebacker this offseason. Block awareness can improve.
- Coming to balance in space: Carter had a 27.6% missed tackle rate in 2023, per TruMedia, when he was serving as an off-ball linebacker. There were still examples from this season.
- Shorter in stature: His length is more of a question than a concern, because it does not impede his performance. It will be interesting to learn his wingspan, but 6-foot-3 is usually a bit small for a potential top-10 overall selection.
Top Abdul Carter News
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Giants' Abdul Carter: Picked third overall by Giants
The Giants selected Carter (foot) in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft, third overall.
Carter (6-foot-3, 250 pounds) was widely considered a viable first overall pick, and at the third pick the former Penn State star could prove a foundational pickup for the Giants defense. Even with substantial investments made in Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux, Carter will likely force his way into a three-down role at some point his rookie year, if not immediately. Carter's 12.0 total sacks in 2024 doesn't fully capture how disruptive he was -- a better measure would be his 23.5 tackles for loss, which is a threshold rarely reached. It's possible that the Giants will consider moving Thibodeaux, if only because a talent like Carter can't stay on the bench for long. Although a stress fracture in his foot kept Carter from participating in pre-draft athletic testing, the injury won't require surgery and is considered close to a non-issue.
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Abdul Carter: Medical re-check goes well
Carter (foot/shoulder) underwent a medical re-check in Indianapolis on Thursday, confirming that the stress reaction in his right foot is healing and will not require surgery, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.
Carter appears to be progressing on track in his recovery from both the shoulder injury that kept him from handling on-field drills at the the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine, and the stress reaction discovered at the combine which prevented him from working out at Penn State's pro day. His agent Drew Rosenhaus said Thursday that Carter's injuries "should be a non-factor with the teams at this point," and he previously stated that Carted may host private workouts for NFL organizations prior to the draft later this month. The reigning Big 10 Defensive Player of the Year remains widely projected to come off the board within the first picks of the 2025 NFL Draft, assuming teams indeed have no serious concerns about his health.
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Player Bio
| HT/WT: 6-3, 250 lbs |
| Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA |
| Class: Junior |