Big-bodied NIU defensive tackle with upside, but still an unproven college snap count
Phelps is a 6-foot-3, 271-pound defensive tackle for Northern Illinois who has the frame teams want in the middle, but the 2025 season notes show he did not play in a game and had no statistics, so the care factor is mostly projection right now[4][3]. He entered NIU as a high-academic, high-character prospect from Wisconsin, and that background plus his size suggests a developmental lineman with room to grow into a rotational run-stopper if his power and pad level come along[13][4].
