NFL football will be here before you know it with the start of most training camps happening within the next 10 days. That also means college football is coming soon too, something the league’s front offices will be keeping a close watch on in advance of the 2025 NFL Draft.
Now, it’s time to kick off our CBS Sports 2025 NFL Draft summer prospect series on some of the NFL’s most valuable positions, beginning with the most valuable of them all: the quarterbacks.
The 2024 NFL Draft valued the quarterback position like no other with six being selected in the first 12 picks: USC’s Caleb Williams (No. 1 overall to Chicago Bears), LSU’s Jayden Daniels (No. 2 overall to Washington Commanders), North Carolina’s Drake Maye (No. 3 overall to New England Patriots), Washington’s Michael Penix Jr. (No. 8 overall to Atlanta Falcons), Michigan’s J.J.McCarthy (No. 10 overall to Minnesota Vikings), Oregon’s Bo Nix (No. 12 overall to Denver Broncos).
According to CBS Sports Research, the most recent NFL draft featured history in this regard becoming the:
First draft with four quarterbacks in the first eight picks First draft with five quarterbacks in the first 10 picksFirst draft with six quarterbacks in the top 12Draft with shortest span of picks for six quarterbacks at any point in a draft (previous mark: 20 picks in 1992 from picks 211-230)
However, this latest class had a have and have-not’s in terms of their draft slots. After those first 12 picks, the 2024 NFL Draft turned into only the third all-time to have no quarterbacks taken in the second or third round, joining the 1983 and 1994 drafts. When it was all said and done, here were a record number of picks between QBs, 138 picks separating Bo Nix going to the Broncos at No. 12 and Spencer Rattler joining the Saints at No. 150.
Going into the 2025 NFL Draft at this stage, it’s not fair to expect a high volume of passers to go within the…
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-07-15 12:49:24
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