An exciting first round of the 2025 NFL Draft is in the books. It featured plenty of surprise, including one right off the bat with the Jaguars trading away next year’s first round pick to Cleveland for the rights to draft Travis Hunter.
The way the board broke this year, with just two quarterbacks going in the first round (Cam Ward and Shedeur Jaxson Dart) and Shedeur Sanders falling into the second day, I think 2026 will call for a reversal. The talent is better and there will be more teams at the top who need to get off the free agent carousel and find their quarterback of the future. Could that be Arch Manning? He will appear in many way-too-early mock drafts, but my hunch is he plays two full seasons at Texas and thus enters what will be a historically good 2027 NFL Draft — that is, unless he either wins the Heisman Trophy or a national championship and rides off into the sunset.
Arch Manning in 2026 NFL Draft? Could the prospect of going No. 1 cut Texas QB’s college career short?
Will Backus
You’ll see many of these players featured in my ranking of the top 150 players in college football, which I released a few weeks ago for the 2025 season. But not all of them. South Carolina fans won’t be thrilled with me for snubbing LaNorris Sellers, who I have too many questions about right now. And the order is different, too, as is the difference between a great college player and a great NFL prospect.
Our draft order here is based on a combination of projected win totals, reversed Super Bowl odds and a few judgement calls —…
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Author : Blake Brockermeyer
Publish date : 2025-04-25 03:52:00
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