The file for the most quarterbacks taken in the first round of the NFL Draft is six. That file, first set in 1983, was matched in 2024. The file may be damaged in 2025, with properly over seven highly-regarded QB prospects.
Per Mel Kiper Jr., the highest 10 QB prospects for the 2025 draft are:
Sanders, Beck, Ward, Dart and Howard are seniors or graduate college students.
Ewers, Milroe, Allar, Nussmeier and Moss are juniors or redshirt juniors, with eligibility to stay on the collegiate degree in 2025 ought to they so select.
In a current mock draft by CBS Sports’ Chris Trapasso, Ward goes No. 2, Moss goes No. 3, Beck goes No. 6, Dart goes No. 14 and Nussmeier goes No. 16. Though Trapasso didn’t embody Sanders and Ewers as first-round choices on this mock, he expressly acknowledged that each of them “very properly might…be chosen within the first spherical.” In that case, a brand new file can be set, with seven QBs picked within the first spherical.
After all, a level of hypothesis is concerned in forecasting draft choices, significantly seven months beforehand. A bunch of variables are at play. As an example, QBs like Moss, Milroe and Nussmeier would possibly resolve to play one other yr on the collegiate degree. Nonetheless, the opportunity of the number of a record-setting variety of QBs within the 2025 NFL Draft is intriguing, and it’s fascinating to evaluate whether or not the likelihood could grow to be actuality.
Fox Sports activities NFL Draft analyst Rob Rang notes that the 6-foot-5 Allar is already producing appreciable “draft buzz,” together with his “ideally suited mix of dimension, arm energy and an aversion to interceptions.”
Per NFL Draft Buzz, LSU’s Nussmeier “might simply hear his title known as on Day 1 of the draft.
In a Bleacher Report mock, Ohio State’s Howard is the No. 21 choose.
In a current Sports Illustrated top 10 mock draft, Ward goes No. 2, Sanders goes No. 4 and Milroe goes No. 8.
Thus, all 10 of Kiper’s prime QB prospects are first-round choices in respected mock drafts.
Different well-regarded QB prospects for the 2025 NFL draft embody Taylen Inexperienced (redshirt junior, Arkansas Razorbacks) and Kyle McCord (senior, Syracuse Orange).
Time will inform whether or not the file of six quarterbacks chosen within the first spherical can be surpassed within the 2025 NFL Draft, however it actually seems like a chance as we transfer towards the center of the school soccer season.
