Value equations and position priority may vary depending on the NFL franchise, manager and coaching personnel with a dazzling exception tested by history and proven in hardware.
Quarterbacks is the ultimate NFL JOOKER SCK, a top necessity with very remarkable exceptions.
Of the 14 start-quarter slopes in the playoffs in 2025, 12 entered the league as the first rounds. The Lombardi Trophy winner – Jalen Hurts of the Eagles – was an exception, like 2024 NFC Super Bowl Quarterback Brock Purdy. Hurts was a second rounder (53rd total 2020) and the lowest prepared playoffs other than Steelers veteran Russell Wilson (a third round, 75th overall, 2012). Ten of Quarterbacks, which started in 2025, the playoffs were prepared in the top 12 in total.
The roundabout on the table goes well past the story for teams that prepare Quarterbacks in the top five.
Most years, a franchise finds its path to the No. 1 choice due to a QB need. Six of the 12 best elections in 2024 were spent on quarterbacks.
This is largely true again this year of the three teams in top three: Titans, Browns and Giants. Everyone had high -profile fires outbreaks around the planned development of spy saviors and appreciated choices and with three wins last season is under greater heat to fix the position.
Can the supply available in the 2025 NFL draft meet demand from law without proven response to the position?
Field Level Media 2025 Draft QB -ranking:
1. Cameron Ward, Miami
With 158 career TD passes and a three-program Track Record to win with top production of five years at the university level, Ward stands as the lone Quarterbacken with the first round in FLM ranking. Fit has become critical of QB-while that was always the case, Synergy and an established development platform are now passfail measurement values that fall on the organization, not the player. Ward may have been no. 3-5 in the historic class 2024 between JJ McCarthy and Michael Penix.
There are, of course, risks, but Ward’s tools attract: pocket mobility, decent speed with card areas, power to rip in a crowded pocket and stir down the field.
He is not fully programmed. The pre -vessel for freelance and trusting that his instincts led to rich success in Miami and Washington State. The same escapades and living arm can lead to him transferring his ability to do something out of nothing. The combination of all these factors invites loose comparisons with Patrick Mahomes, and GMS that takes deep diving on Ward is blown away by his influencing leadership and follow-up style expected from a franchise quarterback.
2. SHEDEUR SANDERS, Colorado
Developed by his father, Deion Sanders, in Jackson State and Colorado, the limelight has never been too engrossing for Shedeur Sanders. Shedeur Sanders was a simple goal as the coach’s child led by spotted and famous Hall of Fame corner, 13-11 in two seasons at the FBS level and finished 73 percent of his passports as a junior before explaining the draft.
Deion Sanders made his fortune at rare speed, explosiveness and game instincts. Shedeur Sanders ticket to the professional success lies in his competitive toughness and the ability to deliver the ball in time as he stares down at the rush of the pass. He is not suitable for every NFL crime and some coordinators are afraid that he cannot be pulled out of an overly cautious in the game. Shedeur Sanders may only succeed with a schedule that is focused on a strong running game with a full-trusted, tough love similar to Bo Nix with Broncos.
3. Jalen Milroe, Alabama
All sorts of variants of this QB class hacking are out among NFL’s 32 opinions that mean something. For all franchise preparing for a rainy day, Milroe is highlighted as a player who can take Jordan Love (26th overall) or Jalen hurts an NFL start -up job.
A quarterback in a backback’s body, Milroes Pro Progress has almost no chance of becoming a straight line to success. He is admittedly raw, new to read in addition to his other alternative and habit to come by with natural gifts – rare as they can be – to win. This can often mean retreating to the highest training as a first way of thinking when games go outside the script.
He did a jump training during first-year coach Kellen Deboer and provides a change in play as a runner-20 rushing touchdowns last season-to add value while using his work-based and professional strategy to develop as an NFL passer. Parallels to current packers Backup Malik Willis are wide of the brand and those who make compounds for Run-Happy Syracuse product Donovan Mcnabb (No. 2 Total, 1999) and Mississippi State Project Dak Prescott (fourth round, 2016) is only marginally closer.
If he has been prepared for ideal circumstances with pro redshirt opportunities, Milroe’s home-controlled speed and upward are diverted.
4. Jaxson Dart, Mississippi
In order not to propose a daily driver cannot compete in a car show, but a host roof seems to be inevitable for Dart in the draft by 2025. He passed for more than 10,000 meters and embodied chip-on-shoulder method for the position coach lane kiffin loves. As a NFL prospectus, there are parts of Dart’s games that are easily transferred to a time-based crime. He is 28-10 as a starter and throws the ball with accuracy, timing and can escape or use the legs to create openings.
He will not cut the ball through Gusty winds but would love to die with a gun mentality that some coaches are safe to embrace.
There are winning features in common with Brock Purdy (49ers) and Kirk Cousins (Falcons), but his greatest production and performance have come in Helter Skelter stimulation or comeback situations and a season or two may be necessary to build him into a more complete starter.
5. Quinn Ewers, Texas
One of the more high-profile recruits in the latest memory and a cornerstone at the beginning of the Nil era, Ewers brings the profile for a backup quarterback to the table despite success and the playoffs in Texas and in Sec.
Ewers is a touch passes with enough mobility to manipulate the pocket, Ewers has undeniable resemblance to the former Pitt first round Pick Kenny Pickett. Pickett is in its third NFL team in three seasons after being acquired from the Eagles by Cleveland Browns. He is good enough to win a game, but maybe not the player’s coach wants the driver’s seat in the long run.
6. Tyler Shough, Louisville
A seven-year college trip paved the way for Shough to hit the NFL draft almost 26 years old and contained an incomplete resume. He only played in more than eight games once in his career and it came last season at Louisville, where his pocket capacity made him perfect in a Downfield game. Given sustainability problems and advanced age, the upside to choose Shough over younger, development options is limited. Shough turns 26 in September, and if a team will not start him as a beginner, what in the name Brandon Weeden do we do here?
7. Kyle McCord, Syracuse
Turnments, risk tolerance and a stiff edition are the problems that scouts cannot come by in the final grade for McCord. His mental makeup, experience, reps and controlled aggressiveness as a decision maker pushes him into top backup and the lashing area.
8. Will Howard, Ohio State
Went from Kansas State to Buckeyes and a season that led a Cadillac crime skyrocketed his efficiency and he won some speids with his toughness. Questions about arm strength and inconsistent accuracy do not disappear.
9. Dillon Gabriel, Oregon
As a draft of the second or third days, Gabriel threw size (5-11, 200) and limited exposure to a pro-style schedule him in the same light as previous career backup Chase Daniel.
10. Kurtis Rourke, Indiana
Six seasons in college and play through a second broken ACL (August 2024, operation January 2025) reduces Rourke to a roof at safety level.
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