The New York Giants maintain the No. 3 general decide within the 2025 NFL draft and are in determined want of a younger quarterback. In some other 12 months, that might put them in a chief place to realize their purpose however that is the Giants we’re speaking about.
Six quarterbacks went off the board within the first spherical a 12 months in the past however that gained’t be the case in 2025. With the Giants lastly in putting distance of a younger quarterback to construct round it appears becoming that the category is essentially underwhelming.
Miami’s Cam Ward and Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders are thought of the highest two on the quarterback place, however ESPN’s Matt Miller believes they’d have been thought of QB5 and QB6 in 2024.
In reality, Miller doesn’t have a single quarterback with a first-round grade this 12 months.
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One 12 months after seeing six quarterbacks drafted within the first spherical, the 2025 class has zero passers with a real first-round grade. Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders and Miami’s Cam Ward would have each been ranked behind Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye and even J.J. McCarthy in 2024.
Each Sanders and Ward are proficient and have the potential to rise within the predraft course of, however I wouldn’t be comfy calling them first-round prospects based mostly on this previous season’s tape. That doesn’t imply they gained’t be drafted within the first spherical, although. In reality, it’s a protected guess that each get drafted within the prime 5 choices; quarterbacks all the time go early.
If that weren’t dangerous sufficient, Miller had simply three quarterbacks with a first-round grade in 2024 (Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, and Drake Maye). That may counsel Spherical 2 or Spherical 3 grades on Sanders and Ward a 12 months in the past and Spherical 2 grades on them this coming April.
In fact, grades may be taken with a grain of salt. Nobody is ideal and each analyst will get one thing flawed sooner or later, however there appears to be a rising consensus that taking any of those quarterbacks within the prime three could be thought of a probably harmful attain.
