NFL Draft 2025: Will the New York Giants draft QB Shedeur Sanders?

The 2025 NFL Draft has formally come and gone and it was fairly the doozy.

Some issues went chalk and others had been full surprises. That is a part of the magic of the draft: There may be at all times one thing that occurs that catches us off guard.

With the mud totally selecting the outcomes we figured now can be one of the best time for us at The Skinny Submit, Michael Peterson and RJ Ochoa, to deal with a few of the bigger issues to occur all through all of it.

Let’s start.

Mel Kiper appeared to crash out on dwell tv, stating that the NFL has been clueless on quarterback analysis for over 50 years. Was this the pot calling the kettle black?

Michael:

It appeared so out of left area. The Shedeur Sanders discourse was unsurprisingly on the forefront of all NFL Draft protection because of a slide that completely nobody on the skin of an NFL franchise noticed coming.

Following Sanders’ choice by the Browns within the fifth spherical, Kiper went on a wierd, emotional, and prolonged tangent calling out NFL evaluators for his or her lack of ability to correctly scout quarterbacks over the previous 50 years. To borrow a phrase out of the Gen Z playbook, it was tremendous “cringe.” It was laborious to look at from the man many deem to be the “godfather” of recent draft protection.

Right here’s the factor: Kiper is identical man who stated he’d retire if former Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen didn’t make it within the NFL (he didn’t). He additionally thought JaMarcus Russell can be the following coming of John Elway (he was not). To high all of it off, he was a giant proponent for Lamar Jackson switching to extensive receiver so he might have a greater probability of constructing it as a profitable professional (spoiler alert: Jackson has a number of MVPs as a quarterback).

Was this, indirectly, the start of the tip for Kiper as a decent draft voice? I do know that sounds a bit over-exaggerated, however there’s a wealth of younger, up-and-coming draft voices who might simply step in and supply the identical, if not higher, protection of NFL draft prospects throughout all three days. I’m already seeing folks on X convey up the concept of conserving Kiper off the desk for subsequent yr.

I’m undecided I disagree with that sentiment.

RJ:

To be fairly trustworthy, I wouldn’t have a very passionate tackle all of this.

It was undoubtedly predictable that there can be sturdy, deeply held opinions about Sanders falling — possibly a cause why he did so if we enable ourselves to zoom out — and Mel Kiper definitely exhibited ardour in his level.

I feel it’s superb for him to defend that he discovered the state of affairs to be preposterous and unfair whereas not calling out the method at massive. To behave like every single individual is batting even .250 at evaluating NFL Draft expertise is disingenuous. I do know that Michael introduced up Kiper’s errors in analysis prior to now, however everybody misses. All of us are positive about one thing that doesn’t work out or assure a participant will fail who goes on to thrive.

If I’ve a grand takeaway it’s that typically it’s okay to say you don’t know what’s taking place. Within the case of Shedeur there have been clearly assumptions about his fame derailing every part, however guessing at something is basically simply superior conjecture. I’d have personally been superb if Kiper or anybody would have provided one thing alongside the traces of, “look I can not consider that is taking place… I’ve no logical rationalization for it.”

Typically that’s greater than superb.

Shut your eyes and see the long run… who’s successful OROTY?

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RJ:

There are a handful of choices to select from, clearly. Tennessee’s Cam Ward will make loads of sense and has the benefit of being a quarterback… maybe in that respect somebody like Jaxson Dart will shock us by getting within the combine and working away with it.

So far as I’m involved there isn’t any cause or have to overthink this and due to this fact I’m going to go together with Travis Hunter. The Jaguars traded as much as get him and in all chance didn’t achieve this for him to not be a most important a part of their total operation. Trevor Lawrence is in want of a bounce-back form of season… the mathematics simply makes an excessive amount of sense.

For what it’s value I’ve not seen a ton of “Travis Hunter might win BOTH Rookie of the Yr awards” however I’ll say that I’ll hedge my wager a bit and assure that he wins a minimum of one.

Michael:

As a lot as I hate to confess it, I feel new Raiders working again Ashton Jeanty goes to run away with the award this yr (pun completely meant).

The Raiders did get their new beginning quarterback by buying and selling for Geno Smith however I simply don’t see how Pete Carroll received’t try to experience Jeanty to the promised land. I can already see it. Smith goes to pelt tight finish Brock Bowers with a billion targets as a result of Jeanty’s effectiveness will maintain the play-action recreation extensive open. The latter will likely be fed, fed, and fed en path to successful the league’s Offensive Rookie of the Yr honor, proper after his new teammate Bowers did it in 2024.

And sure, I’m so down unhealthy understanding that the Chargers should face the Raiders and Jeanty twice a yr for the foreseeable future. It’s not precisely the identical, but it surely feels harking back to once I realized Patrick Mahomes was going to be superb and that I’d have to look at him dominate the Bolts yearly after I used to be pushing for him to be LA’s choose at No. 7 that yr over Mike Williams.

Which workforce put collectively your favourite draft class?

Michael:

Lots of groups posted photographs on X of their complete draft lessons following the tip of day three. The one class that basically made me cease and stare was the Seattle Seahawks. This can be a workforce that blew me away with their group that was filled with dimension and athleticism.

Their first-round choose, offensive guard Gray Zabel, was one of many most secure picks for a offensive lineman within the class. He’s 6’6 and a mauler. Seattle then adopted that choose up by choosing South Carolina security Nick Emmanwori, a 6’3, 220-pound security who blew the doorways off of the NFL Mix.

The ultimate two picks on Day 2 had been Miami tight finish Elijah Arroyo and Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe. Once more, two dudes with immense athleticism and dynamic play-making potential. The Seahawks don’t even want a quarterback however the offensive minds within the room will in all probability discover a strategy to get the elusive Milroe on the sphere to make a distinction for his or her workforce as a rookie.

Final however not least, I’ve to shout out their fifth-round number of Alabama fullback/tight finish Robbie Outzs. This man sported one of the best mustache on the NFL Mix and is a home.

There’s a lot to like about this group. After being the one 10-win workforce within the NFL to overlook out on the playoffs in 2024, count on the Seahawks to be extremely motivated to by no means be in that place once more.

RJ:

It pains me to say this, however I actually like what the New York Giants did.

To be clear I feel the sensible groups within the Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens all did their regular factor, however I feel that the Giants are on the very least one step nearer to fixing every part that has been occurring for a decade (longer if we’re prepared to acknowledge that their two Tremendous Bowl wins had been unimaginable, but in addition the product of supreme luck).

I’m a proud Arizona State Solar Satan and due to this fact devastated that Cam Skattebo goes to run at my Dallas Cowboys twice a yr for the foreseeable future. The factor is that the Giants have begun to construct a longtime core of younger offensive gamers in Skattebo and (clearly) quarterback Jaxson Dart… oh and Abdul Carter now will get to wreak havoc and possibly even make life simpler for Kayvon Thibodeaux.

It’s tremendous simple for a workforce just like the Eagles as talked about to maintain being elite. That’s boring.

Seeing the Giants take a severe step ahead is applause-worthy.

Which was essentially the most “after all” draft choose of the whole group?

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RJ:

Anybody who watched the Faculty Soccer Playoff knew that Jack Sawyer was going to be a enjoyable choose for whoever finally wound up with him. The play that he made for Ohio State to shut out the Cotton Bowl in opposition to the Longhorns was an all-timer.

It was the form of play that celebrity defensive gamers like T.J. Watt make, so after all destiny would lead Sawyer to the Pittsburgh Steelers. By all measures, Sawyer looks like a dude who’s going to only grind perpetually and ever which makes him an ideal match for the Metal Metropolis.

If I can add to this I’ll say that Will Howard, Sawyer’s Ohio State quarterback, ending up in Pittsburgh is one thing we aren’t speaking about fairly sufficient. I do know we surprise if Aaron Rodgers is finally nonetheless going to signal there, however Howard presents a challenge to work on for the long run on the very least.

Michael:

Jack Sawyer is a very good choose right here.

For me, I can’t assist however choose a workforce that — with out lacking a beat yearly — finds a strategy to draft a participant that had no enterprise being out there after they had been on the clock within the first spherical. In fact, I’m speaking concerning the Philadelphia Eagles someway getting the possibility to choose Alabama linebacker Jihaad Campbell at No. 31 when he was anticipated to return off the board anyplace from No. 8 to No. 15.

In a category that appeared to lack any elite expertise on the off-ball linebacker spot, the Eagles took benefit and bought the highest man at a place that appears to have been devalued lately. On the identical time, in case you have a look at the groups who’ve been essentially the most profitable lately, all of them are likely to make use of a reasonably good participant within the center. Take into consideration Zack Baun who was prolonged by the Eagles this offseason. The 49ers and Fred Warner. The Ravens and Roquan Smith. There appears to be a pattern right here.

The Eagles didn’t even NEED Campbell, however they took him anyway as a result of they actually do stand by the idea of choosing one of the best participant out there and I assure — on a couple of event this upcoming season — we’ll be watching the Eagles protection dominate and say to ourselves, “I can not consider they had been allowed to draft this man.”

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