2025 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Tyler Flanagan, RB, Central Washington University

• Name: Tyler Flanagan
• Position: Running Back 
• College: Central Washington University 
• Height: 5’11
• Weight: 225
• Twitter: tyler_flanagan3
• Instagram: Tylerflanagan21

What makes you a top prospect at your position in the 2025 NFL Draft?

What makes me a top prospect at my position is that I’m not a one down back I’m a four down back who can break a long one or pass pro on passing down to getting a yard on 4th and 1. 

What is one thing that NFL teams should know about you?

I’m a competitor.  

If you could donate to one cause in the world, what would it be?

I would donate to a cause like All Kids Play, that way kids can have an opportunity to play and enjoy sports like I did. 

Who was your role model?

My Role is my dad. 

Who is your favorite NFL team?

Seahawks 

Who is the most underrated teammate at your school?

Noah Thompson 

What is your biggest pet peeve?

Being late 

Who is your favorite teacher ever?

Judy Schomer 

Overcoming adversity is what defines character, what was the hardest moment in your life to overcome?

I tore my ACL and both meniscus and fractured my femur in the first game of the season. However by the end of the spring in April I was padded up playing. 

If you could have any franchise restaurant in your house what would it be?

Fogo de chao 

What is your favorite snack food?

Uncrustables and beef jerky 

What is your degree in?

Sports management and physical education 

If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would it be and why?

My mom and dad and God. This is because I grew up going to church with my parents and it would be amazing to be able to sit down and ask him questions and how he saw things in life. 

What is your biggest weakness?

Spelling