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The Giants are in the market for a new quarterback. Will they find one in 2025?
What we’ve long expected has come to pass. The New York Giants are officially in search for their quarterback of the future.
We knew the Giants were interested in last year’s quarterback class, with GM Joe Schoen personally scouting each of the top prospects. The Giants also attempted to trade up with the New England Patriots in the hopes of drafting either Drake Maye or Jayden Daniels. But as we know, that didn’t happen.
So now the Giants will turn their attention to the 2025 quarterback class. But will they find Their Guy in the upcoming draft class?
There’s skepticism that this class will yield many (or any) top flight quarterbacks.
Dane Brugler wrote in the introduction to his latest Top 50 big board,
But with all of the varying opinions throughout the league, the only consensus at this stage in the process is that teams are struggling to find positive conviction on any of these QBs.
In that same piece, he asked an NFL scout how he would stack the quarterback prospects. His response?
“I don’t envy you.”
We’re still a long way from establishing a final order for the quarterback class. For now, we’re simply keeping track of their draft stock.
Cam Ward (Miami), Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss), and Kurtis Rourke (Indiana) did not play this week, so we’ll consider their draft stock to be neutral.
Draft Stock - Neutral
We recently learned that the Giants have shown some significant interest in Colorado. Joe Schoen has personally scouted two of their games (including this one), and have also sent scouts to practices. They’re likely scouting both WR/CB Travis Hunter as well as QB Shedeur Sanders.
For our purposes here, we’re just concentrating on Sanders, who did what he was supposed to against a 4-5 Utah team over whom Colorado was heavily favored. He completed 30 of 41 for 340 yards and three touchdowns (one interception), on the game.
But the reason why his stock is listed as “neutral” is because his flaws have been on display as well.
Sanders still took three sacks, and his 21.2% pressure-to-sack rate is a pretty bright red flag. Only two quarterbacks in recent memory who have been drafted with a pressure-to-sack rate over 20% have not been busts — those two being Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow. He also started the game with a bad interception thrown while feeling pressure.
Sanders is a good college quarterback, but there are questions as to how well his game will translate to the next level.
Next game: Kansas vs. (17) Colorado - Fox, 3:30 p.m.
Stock: Neutral
Similarly to Sanders, it’s tough to say that Milroe’s draft stock is raised by doing what he was supposed to against the Mercer Bears. Nothing against Mercer, but it would be a titanic upset if the game was even close.
Milroe did...
