Newest league information, rumors forward of Friday’s Rounds 2-3

With the mud now settling after an eventful Spherical 1, one of many largest conversations coming into Day 2 of the 2025 NFL Draft is the place Shedeur Sanders will land.

Sanders, broadly considered as one of many prime quarterbacks within the 2025 class, was not chosen throughout the first 32 picks, leaving many to surprise what occurred with a participant persistently projected as a first-rounder in mock drafts.

NFL Community Insider Tom Pelissero defined Friday on Good Morning Soccer why the event wasn’t solely shocking, given the panorama of groups in search of a QB and the kind of signal-caller some wish to lead the franchise.

“I feel that the place we fall brief at instances, because the media, is permitting sure issues to get forward of what folks throughout the NFL truly see,” Pelissero stated. “In case you speak to scouts and coaches across the NFL, there was one man on this draft who was a surefire beginning quarterback, by way of profile, and that was Cam Ward. The remainder of them — Shedeur Sanders, Jaxson Dart, who goes to the Giants after they commerce up, Jalen Milroe, Tyler Shough — they’re all someplace in that first-, second-round border sort of situation.

“For the Giants, they like Jaxson Dart’s athletic potential, they like his measurement, they like the truth that they’ll run the soccer with him, run RPOs and skim choices, which actually is not Shedeur Sanders’ recreation. With Shedeur, you gotta have a very clear imaginative and prescient. You gotta imagine that he is gonna have the ability to alter his recreation, at the very least considerably, from what he did on the school stage to the NFL, by way of getting the ball out sooner, not taking as many sacks, being extra environment friendly as a quarterback. And when there’s solely so many groups which might be even within the first-round quarterback market, you may say, ‘Yeah, he is sliding,’ however is it truly a slide?”

Sanders stays because the third-highest participant accessible on Daniel Jeremiah’s High 150 prospects record coming into Friday night time. Pelissero added Friday morning that he not solely believes Sanders will hear his identify referred to as on Day 2, however as much as 5 different QBs may additionally discover their new properties throughout the second and third rounds.

The Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints and Pittsburgh Steelers — three groups that handed on perceived QB wants with the alternatives of Mason Graham, Kelvin Banks Jr. and Derrick Harmon — are amongst those who might be on the lookout for a signal-caller tonight.

“Day 2 of the draft, you bought the Browns with a few picks excessive within the second spherical, you bought the Saints, who’ve a excessive second-round decide,” Pelissero stated. “Steelers haven’t got a second-round decide — they do have a 3rd. In my thoughts, that may doubtlessly be the ground for Shedeur Sanders right here. His alternative is coming, however, once more, we may discuss all the opposite issues round Shedeur Sanders. It is all actual. By way of simply the participant itself, I perceive what the numbers have been in school, I perceive the manufacturing. However the feeling throughout the league, you are speaking about traits and what that man’s gonna be within the NFL.”