Rob Rang
NFL Draft Analyst
As the leaves start to fall in mid-October, so do the hopes of some NFL fan bases. And with college football officially reaching the midway point of its regular season, the time has come to revisit our early 2025 first round mock draft.
As the only teams without a loss this season, the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs and upstart Minnesota Vikings are two of the biggest stories of the early NFL season. A hot start does not guarantee the Lombardi Trophy, of course, so for the purposes of this mock draft, we simply took the reverse order of the current Super Bowl odds via DraftKings to create the selection order.
[Related: Why Travis Hunter is an unprecedented prospect]
Individual players’ stocks will fluctuate in the months leading up to the draft, but at this point, cornerback, running back and linemen appear to be this year’s strongest positional groups. That could make things interesting for teams like the Carolina Panthers, Cleveland Browns and Las Vegas Raiders, all of whom might be considering another reboot at quarterback in a draft currently featuring more questions than answers at the position.
1. Carolina Panthers: Travis Hunter, CB/WR, Colorado
The Panthers are the worst team in the NFL in just about every meaningful statistic, so new GM Dan Morgan and head coach Dave Canales have lots of work in front of them. Carolina has won a total of three games over the past two seasons and currently ranks dead last in points allowed (33.8 per game) and 28th in points scored (17.2). As such, the Panthers should exhaust all opportunities to trade out for more picks in a massive rebuild — which is precisely what I projected in last month’s mock draft — but if forced to pick here, taking Hunter, the best player in the class, makes the most sense.
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2. New England Patriots: Mason Graham, DT, Michigan
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Publish date : 2024-10-17 19:08:05
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