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

We’ve formally reached the week of the 2025 NFL Draft and shortly sufficient we’re going to know who has been mendacity and who has been telling the reality.

Probably the most intense tunnel imaginative and prescient doable is critical this week because the eleventh hour of the pre-draft cycle all the time brings intense rumors. In the intervening time these are churning proper alongside and as all the time we right here at The Skinny Publish, Michael Peterson and RJ Ochoa, have ideas and takeaways on every of them.

Let’s start.

Chatter is swirling concerning the Giants and Shedeur Sanders

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RJ:

Possibly I get older or maybe I’m simply shedding to the passage of time (I suppose they’re the identical factor), however I simply can not muster a passionate take about Colorado retiring Shedeur Sanders’ jersey final weekend. I do know quite a lot of you maintain intense opinions, although.

What I’m very excited by although is that this chatter and connection that Sanders appears to have relative to the New York Giants. It’s primarily recognized that the Tennessee Titans might be taking Cam Ward at No. 1 total, however the questions as to who the subsequent quarterback off the board might be and the place they go have been lingering for months.

Early within the course of it appeared like Sanders to the G-Males at 3 total was doable, however then these waters rapidly cooled. Are they again and transferring? May Shedeur be part of a room that already options Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston? What would that even be like?

I feel that I have to know.

Michael:

I’ve additionally thought so much about Sanders’ jersey getting retired so rapidly alongside aspect Travis Hunter’s and I definitely have opinions. First off, Hunter deserves it. Doesn’t matter what occurs in his NFL profession; he simply turned one of many most-decorated single-season faculty soccer gamers ever. This is sensible. Nevertheless, I can’t get behind Sanders’ quantity being retired. He set some faculty information for a quarterback and he’s seemingly going within the prime 10 throughout a weak quarterback class. His win-loss file at CU was pedestrian. He beat one top-25 group in his profession. He didn’t win any postseason video games.

I don’t learn about you, however on this case you’d wait till he has an amazing NFL profession to justify the quantity being retired. That’s simply how I see it, particularly getting retired earlier than a bunch of different CU gamers who’ve deserved it for for much longer. I agree along with his father that colleges mustn’t wait till a participant dies or they’re a lot older earlier than retiring a quantity/giving them a statue. It is best to do it as quickly as doable in the event that they deserve it. Nevertheless, that justification nonetheless doesn’t persuade me why Shedeur obtained his quantity retired so rapidly.

Anyhoo, that wasn’t the principle premise of this subject. I’m additionally getting the sense that Shedeur to the Giants hype is again and swinging. Apparently the Giants have completed an immense quantity of homework on him and are leaving no stone unturned in relation to deciding who to take at No. 3. If not Sanders, they may be capable to choose one of many true blue-chip gamers within the class and probably nonetheless get one of many prime passers early within the second or late within the first in the event that they select to commerce up.

Who’s a prospect who isn’t receiving a ton of first-round hype however you continue to wouldn’t be shocked to see them come off the board on Thursday evening?

Michael:

There are all the time going to be surprises throughout each draft, even within the first spherical. Typically groups merely love a man and don’t need to danger not drafting them within the title of maximizing “worth” for no matter spherical they might be in. In relation to the quarterback place, particularly in an underwhelming class like this one, some coaches and staffs which are tremendous needy might not be capable to wait till subsequent yr for concern of being unemployed by then.

That leads me to consider some group, be it the Giants, Browns, or Steelers, might find yourself leaping at a quarterback a bit sooner than you’d anticipate. For me, that’s Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart who appears to be the consensus QB3 this yr behind Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders.

In our SB Nation Neighborhood Mock, the Giants traded up with the Vikings to pick out Dart and it simply makes an excessive amount of sense ought to New York go on Sanders to take one of many prime defensive gamers in Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter.

I don’t suppose Dart, and even Sanders in a standard quarterback class, would go within the first spherical. However with how this class has formed up, the demand might be there for such a premium place.

RJ:

With my protection of the Dallas Cowboys I’ve completed quite a lot of work and examine on this yr’s large receiver class. The Cowboys are choosing close to the highest of the draft at No. 12 total so it stands to purpose that one in all Tet McMillan or Matthew Golden might be there. I’m good with that.

However clearly I’ve explored quite a lot of potentialities and buying and selling again is one which I like so much. It goes with out saying that this might be for the needs of choosing up additional draft capital, however relying on the place Dallas needed to transfer again in the direction of they may additionally nonetheless stroll away with a large receiver.

Ohio State’s Emeka Egbuka is a fringe first-round participant, it varies on the place you look lately, and I feel he has gotten misplaced within the fold of quite a lot of issues. The Buckeyes received the nationwide championship which signifies that EVERYONE on their group obtained quite a lot of consideration, however Egbuka was phenomenal all season. The difficulty for him is that he was not Jeremiah Smith who was the belle of the ball for all Buckeye large receiver discussions.

The fact is that Ohio State does an outstanding job of churning out wideouts who succeed on the NFL stage. I anticipate Egbuka to be a steal for somebody.

Who holds the keys within the draft to make issues actually chaotic in your opinion?

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RJ:

In relation to chaos in our trendy second I feel that the obvious reply right here is Aaron Rodgers.

Final week Rodgers made it recognized that he’s comfy with retirement which is definitely a selection and assertion on the place he appears to be at in his profession. To every their very own.

Whereas the Pittsburgh Steelers have appeared like essentially the most logical touchdown spot for him, many have thrown out the prophecy that was foretold in that Rodgers is destined to comply with his Brett Favre arc and play for the Minnesota Vikings. That is essentially the most chaotic grenade that may be launched into this complete factor.

Think about if it had been to occur. Think about if throughout the draft we obtained phrase that the Vikings had been signing Aaron Rodgers. I’m unsure what occurs to J.J. McCarthy on this hypothetical, however I do know as someone with no attachment to the Vikings that I might type of be in on the theater of all of it.

Michael:

Realizing Aaron Rodgers, I might not put it previous him to agree to hitch a group throughout both of the primary two days of the NFL Draft. He’d zap the highlight proper off of Inexperienced Bay whereas instantly forcing no less than one group to probably alter their draft plans. That might not shock me within the slightest.

Think about if Shedeur Sanders falls nearer and nearer to the Steelers within the again half of the draft simply to see them signal Rodgers which forces a good additional slide for the quarterback. A group just like the Giants or Browns would have bolt to the telephones to make a commerce up for his companies. It might the very best form of chaotic.

Solely 15 gamers are scheduled to attend the NFL Draft in Inexperienced Bay this yr. I miss Radio Metropolis Music Corridor when the inexperienced room was packed.

Michael:

So the NFL Draft is in Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin this yr and as of Monday throughout draft week, the variety of initially reported attendees has gone down to only 15. That quantity appears so low, however then I keep in mind that solely 13 attended final yr’s occasion in Detroit.

Possibly I’m simply getting outdated now that I’ve just lately turned 31 years outdated however one thing appears lacking from current drafts and I can’t assist however really feel that it’s the shortage of attendance by the highest prospects. When the occasion was nonetheless at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York, I recall that inexperienced room all the time being full of gamers. It additionally appeared that method when the draft was hosted in Las Vegas in 2022.

I can perceive that extra gamers at the moment are desirous to have a good time the event with extra of their family and friends round them. It’s a really particular, life-changing evening for them, however I can’t assist however really feel among the luster round Day 1 has died down together with the development.

Am I…yelling at a cloud? Inform me I’m improper right here.

RJ:

This take isn’t an outdated man yelling at a cloud as a lot as it’s a illustration of the place we’re.

I feel it’s nice that gamers need to be house, and I additionally don’t blame them for not desirous to go to particular NFL areas versus an iconic one like Radio Metropolis.

As true as that’s, I additionally actually like that the draft strikes round. It isn’t the Tremendous Bowl that’s somebody depending on going to a location that isn’t thwarted by winter climate. Shifting the draft round permits colder areas (throughout winter months) to point out off who they’re to the NFL world.

That is simply the pure influence of it. It’s all good.