Peeking ahead to the 2025 QB class … With all the focus on the QBs with the 2024 draft now just over 72 hours away, we’ve had a number of correspondents ask about the prospects at the position for the 2025 draft just in case their particular team misses out this year. Again, its a year away so we don’t want to get too far out over our skies, but a preliminary look at next year’s QB class suggests that it likely won’t be quite as good as this year’s group; however, it also won’t be the wasteland some folks have been predicting. Indeed, Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders was talked about as being very much in the mix to be one of the first three QBs off this year before he announced he was returning to school, while Quinn Ewers of Texas also figured prominently in the first-round discussion before he too opted to return to school. At the same time time, Carson Beck of Georgia looks to be on the same trajectory of JJ McCarthy this year, while Alabama’s Jalen Milroe also has tons to physical talent and just needs to polish up some of the technical elements of his game. Then there’s the small army of solid veteran college QBs that surprisingly chose to give college another year including Cam Ward (now at Miami). Cam Rising (Utah), Riley Leonard (Notre Dame), Will Howard (Ohio State), Tyler Van Dyke (Wisconsin), DJ Uiagalelei (Florida State), Will Rogers (Washington), KJ Jefferson (UCF) and Grayson McCall (NC State). Meanwhile, any team looking for a sleeper at the position will surely want to check out 6-6 Western Kentucky gunslinger TJ Finley, while former MAC star Kurtis Rourke will get a chance on the Big Ten stage this fall at Indiana. Here’s our very preliminary ranking of the QBs for 2025, again with the proviso much will change between now and then.
