2025 NFL Mock Draft: 3 top-5 QBs (Cam Ward! Shedeur Sanders!) in another offense-heavy first round

The 2025 NFL Draft quarterback class isn’t as good as the 2024 class. It’s not as bad as the 2022 class, either.

That makes next spring’s deluge of rookie saviors a little tougher to figure out this fall. There’s no Caleb Williams to slot into the top spot. Even if there were, some of this year’s worst NFL teams — namely the Jacksonville Jaguars and New England Patriots — already have quarterbacks locked in. As a result, this look at the upcoming draft, some six months early, won’t look especially like the way picks one through 32 actually unfold.

What it can tell us, however, is what each team’s needs are half a year out from the draft and which college stars could fill those holes. So, with four weeks down in the 2024 NFL season — and five (or six) taken out of the NCAA schedule, let’s make some educated guesses in our first mock draft of the year.

Draft order here comes from my Week 5 power rankings and will change wildly before the 2024 season is over, so don’t get too worked up over who is picking where. Draft needs are approximate, listed in no particular order and will vary significantly based on each team’s free agency plans.

With that out of the way, let’s take a way-too-early look at the 2025 NFL Draft.