THE NFL 2025 draft is almost there, and the sports experts of Yahoo Nate Tice and Charles McDonald decompose the position of the superior prospects by position. Here are the quarters. Discover Nate and Charles' Big Board consensus herewith Nate's large final board And Final Big Board de Charles.
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Here are the five best hopes of a quarter of the NFL 2025 recovery (Davis Long / Yahoo Sports)
1. Cam Ward, Miami
Nate Tice: Cam Ward gives off calm when you look at it. Whether in its pocket movements or the execution in great moments, Ward is more than happy to try to make difficult throws or try shooting. He has no qualms that pursues him even when he is punished.
Ward has a good frame, a good arm with a quick armament delivery which can attack the three levels, and it can create with its legs or its platform if necessary. He can also make higher difficulty parts. Ward can be a little too won with his moments of heat check and have him escape him, but he continued to add diapers to his game with each stop of his university career and makes everyone around him.
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Ward is a good athlete, but not overwhelming, but is an effective fog with a good clock in his head to put the ball and run. Ward has measured in less than 6 feet 2 inches with the combine harvester, but its size is not a means of deterrence due to its capacity to operate quickly and to change the arms angles around the rushers of passes.
Ward still has a few things to clean, and could lack a real overwhelming line, but it is young and has already shown the ability to operate (and excel) both in and outside the structures – with results also. Any fans base that writes it should rightly be excited because Ward is just a fun player to watch. You have to love a QB that testing thing.
Charles McDonald: Ward has taken a windy route to get here, but it is almost the best consensual quarter of this year's class. He went from the word embodied in the state of Washington in Miami and never looked at him in any place.
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Last season, Ward was the engine of Miami's success and almost dragged the Hurricanes to the eliminations of university football despite a porous defense. Ward is a big risk on the ground, but his talent for arms and his precision on the ground allowed him to keep the hurricanes living in difficult places. His desire to hunt big games sometimes causes him trouble, but it is better to have to slow down that to try to have him play outside of his comfort zone.
Ward will have a learning curve as soon as he adapts his style to the increased rhythm of the NFL game, but he has all the tools to be a quarter of the NFL franchise.
2. Shemer Sanders, Colorado
Charles McDonald: Sanders will probably go a lot, much more than 37th in total, where I ranked it, when the draft arrives. It's just the nature of writing the quarter in the NFL at the moment. However, it's just to wonder exactly what your ceiling is.
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Nate Tice: Sanders has improved his game this season, especially with his sensation in his pocket and the timing with which he plays on the concepts. Sanders is hard, has a good arm and is more than ready to challenge defenders on more difficult throws like breakers in the middle. In rhythm, he can let his passing sensors thrive because of his friendly ball placement.
Sanders has a size lower than the average and is also just an average athlete, which appears when asked to create. He has considerably improved his pocket movement (although he always tends to derive back).
Sanders still has a lot to work, especially with regard to timing and sensation in the pocket. And although he has a good arm for the NFL, his tools are not overwhelming enough to constantly reduce difficult situations. Sanders will have to be deposited in a good ecosystem to continue climbing to the next level.
3. Tyler Shough, Louisville
Nate Tice: I did a Deep diving on Shough recently. The TL; Dr – Shough is an old perspective with an injury history, but it is a good athlete who can absolutely run it, especially while launching in motion. He also doesn't take bags (which can be both good and bad). There are enough high -end throws on the Shuch band that makes it interesting. The teams will have to assess how early it is to write a QB which was part of the same high school recruitment class as Trevor Lawrence.
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Charles McDonald: Shough is a quarry perspective, but injuries and age make him a curious case to break this draft season. Shough will be 26 years old this fall and was at university for seven seasons. He exploited the offensive of Louisville well and has beautiful features as a passer. It has a start -up potential, but its path has no good work history in the NFL.
4. Jaxson Dart, Ole Miss
Charles McDonald: Look, Dart goes higher than where I ranked it on my large board (68th), but my classification will not be in accordance with that. Dart has intriguing physical tools to develop, but its precision is striated and it has a large learning curve from the NFL Lane Kiffin offensive. Someone will be attracted to the cutting edge games he makes, but there is a lot of room to grow here before he is ready to start in the NFL every week.
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Nate Tice: I wrote more widely on Dart recently. Overall, it has an interesting size and tools with which to work with. But its ability to work regularly through games is always a work in progress which will need time to sharpen at the next level.
5. Riley Leonard, Notre Dame
Nate Tice: I'm probably going to be one of the highest people on Leonard. I think there is a lot to love and the tools with which working for a dart throwing of day 2.
Leonard has a good size and is an excellent athlete who is a weapon on designed races and on the field open. He has a good feeling in the pocket (but can sometimes bail out the outside a little too quickly) with an ability to alleviate the bags and the pressure, something he has now shown behind two trembling offensive lines in Duke then behind a – forgive the play on words – Green Notre Dame Unit.
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Leonard is a specific launcher below with a few real flashes of superposition throws (and some excellent throws as at the end of the match against Indiana in the CFP), but his deep ball remains a gigantic question and he can have bad sprays especially. Part of this was Notre Dame's reception core, but Leonard had the impression that he was never comfortable pushing the ball regularly.
Leonard's tenacity, tenacity and ability to avoid negative games make him intrigue for me, and his overall death has happened over the season while Notre Dame's offensive – and staff – have started to mature. I give Leonard a certain latitude because he was late in the QB position (basketball being his main objective and the wide receiver at the start of high school). But he must still show that he can execute these complex throws on a more coherent basis, which could never occur and will make it more than one interesting backup option.
But it is not the worst bet to make on such a competitive player with so much athletics – which shows more sensation for the position he obtains – to turn into a starter on the road, with the usual warning “obtains an appropriate training”.
