Sizzling surge has SEC QBs ahead of pack in early Heisman Trophy race and NFL Draft projections

No conference in college football touts as much talent at quarterback as the SEC this season. The league’s top-end group of signal callers flexing College Football Playoff intentions are off to stat-happy starts and should be spotlighted selections in the 2025 NFL Draft.

This week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll features five SEC teams in the top six spots, four of which are led by draft-eligible quarterbacks. The SEC became the first conference in the modern era to have four quarterbacks taken in the first three rounds of the 2023 NFL Draft after Bryce Young, Anthony Richardson, Will Levis and Hendon Hooker got the call.

Earlier this spring, Heisman winner and former LSU star Jayden Daniels went No. 2 overall at the position and now, the SEC could have the top pick in the 2025 cycle if Georgia’s Carson Beck or Quinn Ewers at Texas gets the nod.

With Beck and Ewers widely-perceived as the top prospects at quarterback from the SEC, the league’s record-setting number of signal callers taken two years ago should be eclipsed with this star-studded 2025 group. Behind the captains for the Bulldogs and Longhorns, the league features rising stars Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss), Garrett Nussmeier (LSU), Jalen Milroe (Alabama) and Brady Cook (Missouri). That’s a half-dozen SEC signal callers who could be selected within the first few rounds.

Three games into the season, Dart leads the nation in passing yards (1,172) and completion rate (83%), Nussmeier ranks No. 2 in touchdown passes (10), and the SEC has four of the top 6 leading Heisman candidates — showcased by Dart and Milroe — according to latest odds, via SportsLine.

Looking further, there’s also two quarterbacks ascending at a Space X-level pace who are not draft-eligible: Tennessee’s Nico…

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Author : Brad Crawford

Publish date : 2024-09-18 17:26:31

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