2025 NFL Draft: Debate on First Round Quarterback Picks

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00:00I believe there's only two quarterbacks worthy of a first-round grade or selection

00:03in the 2025 NFL Draft.

00:06The oddsmakers say there will be three going in the first round.

00:10Jalen Milrow still set to attend the NFL Draft in Green Bay later this week,

00:15a plus-130 price.

00:17DRS, how many quarterbacks go in round number one?

00:21We're getting to at least three.

00:22I do believe that.

00:23And again, it all matters in the late first rounds

00:25because the reason why it's a little bit overloaded is

00:28it's not just the premise that quarterbacks get overdrafted.

00:30They do because you don't have a good quarterback.

00:32You're always reaching for a quarterback.

00:34That's what happens.

00:35But the difference between we could have, let's just say, a couple second-round grades.

00:39Well, they get busted up the first-round grades automatically

00:41because you get the extra year where it's like, you know what?

00:44He might be a little bit more of a project.

00:45We could sit him on the bench here.

00:46We control his rights for longer.

00:48So why would I wait till pick 38 when I can just trade up to pick 31 or 32?

00:52I'll have to spend some capital but get an entire extra year of control over that quarterback

00:57to see if he truly can be our franchise guy.

00:59That's why we take a look at the guys and say, well, they're not really first-round grades.

01:02It doesn't matter.

01:03The extra year sort of bumps that up.

01:05If you had no restrictions and everybody, Ben, was slotted with a five-year contract

01:09from round one to round seven, you wouldn't see those trade-ups into the first round.

01:13You would just wait to get them in the second round, lower pay slot, and be fine with that.

01:16But that's why I think we're going to have multiple quarterbacks outside just the top two

01:19we think are going.

01:20I do think there's going to be at least three quarterbacks taken in the first round,

01:24not because they deserve to be a first round or have a first-round grade on them, per se,

01:28but the fact that you get the extra year of control, somebody's going to slide into one

01:31of those 30, 31, or 32 slots and grab a quarterback.