Giants Wire
The New York Giants hold the No. 3 overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft and are in desperate need of a young quarterback. In any other year, that would put them in a prime position to achieve their goal but this is the Giants we’re talking about.
Six quarterbacks went off the board in the first round a year ago but that won’t be the case in 2025. With the Giants finally in striking distance of a young quarterback to build around it seems fitting that the class is largely underwhelming.
Miami’s Cam Ward and Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders are considered the top two at the quarterback position, but ESPN’s Matt Miller believes they would have been considered QB5 and QB6 in 2024.
In fact, Miller doesn’t have a single quarterback with a first-round grade this year.
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One year after seeing six quarterbacks drafted in the first round, the 2025 class has zero passers with a true first-round grade. Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders and Miami’s Cam Ward would have both been ranked behind Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye and even J.J. McCarthy in 2024.
Both Sanders and Ward are talented and have the potential to rise in the predraft process, but I wouldn’t be comfortable calling them first-round prospects based on this past season’s tape. That doesn’t mean they won’t be drafted in the first round, though. In fact, it’s a safe bet that both get drafted in the top five selections; quarterbacks always go early.
If that weren’t bad enough, Miller had just three quarterbacks with a first-round grade in 2024 (Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, and Drake Maye). That would suggest Round 2 or Round 3 grades on Sanders and Ward a year ago and Round 2 grades on them this coming April.
Of course, grades can be taken with a grain of salt. No one is perfect and every analyst gets something wrong at some point, but there seems to be a growing consensus that taking any of these quarterbacks in the top three would be considered a potentially dangerous reach.
