Another mock with Sanders to the Giants
The first wave of free agency has passed and the landscape of the NFL has once again shifted. Team needs heading into the 2025 NFL Draft have changed since March 10th, and that will obviously impact mock drafts.
But one thing that hasn’t changed is that the New York Giants need to come out of the draft with a quarterback of the future. If they don’t, then Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll will almost certainly be fired and the franchise will change directions yet again.
With that in mind, NFL.com draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah released his third mock draft, sending his best QB available to New York.
3. New York Giants – Shedeur Sanders, QB, Colorado
I’ll be curious to see what the Giants do here. If Abdul Carter is available at No. 3, that might change things, but in this scenario, they secure their answer at quarterback.
Raptor’s thoughts
It seems as though we’re in the phase of the draft where people start to return to their priors. For much of the 2024 season following Daniel Jones’ departure, Sanders was the most commonly mocked quarterback for the Giants. And we now have two major mocks on the same day sending Sanders to the Giants.
The context of the pick here is interesting, however.
Jeremiah has Cam Ward going first overall, though he isn’t sold on it being to the Tennessee Titans. He leaves the door open for a trade, saying, “As we inch closer to the draft, it’s beginning to look more and more likely that Ward will be the first overall pick, whether it’s to the Titans or one of the QB-needy teams that sit close behind them in the order, if one were to trade up to No. 1.”
He doesn’t mock any trades in this scenario, however the Giants have to be in the conversation as a team looking to trade up.
Ward has seemingly separated himself from the pack and is all alone in the “top tier” of the quarterback depth chart. There does, however, seem to be a bit of a scrum for QB2, with some believing that teams could have Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss) or Tyler Shough (Louisville) at QB2 ahead of Sanders.
The big question is where Sanders lands on both the Browns’ and Giants’ boards, and that very well could be two different answers.
There’s a growing belief circulating that the Browns have settled on Shedeur at second overall.
There’s quite a bit of tea leaf reading going on, but the confluence is interesting. Within the last week or so, Sanders has publicly established ties with Cleveland Guardians players, Myles Garrett withdrew his trade request and is explicitly expressing confidence in their quarterback situation, and the Browns are (reportedly) not among the teams who have expressed disappointment in their interactions with Sanders.
Sanders has many of the traits with which Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski has succeeded in the past.
Daboll, however, has shown a preference for a different type of quarterback. Whether it’s Josh Allen, Mitchell Trubisky, Davis Webb, Tyrod Taylor, Russell Wilson, or Drew Lock, they all have plus arm strength, a willingness and ability to attack down the field, and the athleticism to be active contributors in the run game.
It’s clear that Jeremiah understands the assignment as far as the Giants coming out of this draft with a quarterback. He implicitly left the door open for them to trade up for Ward, but without mocking that trade he sends his second quarterback to the Giants.
What we don’t know is if the Giants’ board differs from the public boards.
