For the first time in three years, Chicago Bears is not on the clock with the No. 1 election in the 2025 NFL draft, and General Manager Ryan poles privately thank his lucky stars is not in his former employee.
Mike Borgonzi took over as GM of the Titans after ten years with Chiefs, where poles were trained in scouting and entered a Tennessee turning project which includes the big price in the draft 2025.
Open to debate is whether the No. 1 election has a lot of value in a draft with a limited number of blue chips.
The power position to control the draft is for sale in Nashville.
Tennessee would love to move down – a feeling borgonzi repeated several times. One team we talked to in Indianapolis last week suggested the player the titans want is Colorado Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter. If a team wants to go up for a quarterback – Hello, Browns and Giants – Borgonzi is all the ears.
Gnidan here is Cleveland’s GM, Andrew Berry, and Giants’ Front Office, led by Joe Schoen, are fully aware that the Titans are not in love with the QB class. Tennessee was able to show his hand this week by attracting a veteran in free agency. If the Titans do not chase QBs, bluff Borgonzi, and you can pencil in Cam Ward in Miami as no 1 choice.
Opportunities, value and needs cross each other with the QB choice for each of the teams in the top three this year.
Think of 2024 no. 1 Pick Caleb Williams four -year rookie agreement was worth a total of $ 39 million ahead of the fifth year option. To sign the best quarterbacken in free agency last spring, Atlanta Falcons gave over a signing bonus of $ 50 million on a four-year agreement with an annual average more than 4.5 times the Williams contract.
There is not a soul that buys the titans’ promise to let Will Levis compete for the starting job. He got the opportunity in 2024 and fumbled to the bench behind Mason Rudolph, threw in a pick-sex here and there for good dimensions.
The multiplier throughout the scenario is job safety. If you ranked the GM coach combinations of the Titans, Browns and Giants with Win-Now print, the New York Frontrunner is at a significant distance. Borgonzi and second -year coach Brian Callahan have at least another year before sweating. Brown’s signed Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski for new contracts before the 2024 season. Brian Daboll and Schoen are candidates to be shown the door if the giants do not compete again in 2025.
Their draft direction is also due to a pass-fail class in free agency. Can they fix the QB position in the short and long term? Do they have enough on the offensive line and on the skill positions to make it work with a veteran like Kirk Cousins or Aaron Rodgers?
After going hard after Matthew Stafford in February – Giant’s permission to negotiate with Ram’s starter, who chose to stay in Los Angeles – New York’s card is on the table.
If the whiff again when the free agency starts, Schoen is the GM in this draft that pays primary rib prices for a Smash burger.
Tennessee’s Motive, at the moment, gathers “as many choices in the top 100 as possible”, as Borgonzi said.
If he can loosen the best choice for prices on the top shelf and still Nab Hunter-Trot that it is his top goal-is the titans immediately on the way for a turn. But it still leaves Nashville with a big band and no singer.
Which gives us back to value.
The QB options in the draft are not of the stock of Williams or other top selection in the latest memory. Callahan could have his eye on a second level to compete with Levis, which makes acquiring extra choices from Giants or another freer even more important.
A trade back to the first round to throw some (Jaxson) dart? Games at an experienced game manager with Dillon Gabriel or Quinn Ewers? Take a swing on modern Brandon Weeden with Louisville’s closer-to-30-20 Brandon Shough?
The need can be changed before the draft starts in Green Bay. The supply will remain the same.
In Nashville, the decision will all have opportunity costs. In New York, there may be no choice but to pay too much to gain control of the draft.
