Updated preview of the 2025 QB class … Over the course of the last week or so a number of correspondents have asked where they could find the 2025 positional previews we posted earlier this summer. So rather than clutter up the menu with a whole bunch of links we decided to repost the series with some updates starting with the upcoming QB class. Of course, the upcoming draft is almost a year away and there are bound to be numerous changes, 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, but it also won’t necessarily be that far behind; for the record, this year’s QB group is also exceptionally deep, in part because so many QBs took advantage of the NCAA’s extra year of eligibility and opted to return to school for the 2024 campaign.
Certainly, it seems unlikely that QBs are going to be selected 1-2-3 at the upcoming draft as they were this past April. That said, though, both Carson Beck of Georgia and Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, who 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, are currently considered to be top 5-10 prospects for the upcoming draft, while Quinn Ewers of Texas also figures to be very much in the first-round discussion for 2025, especially if he can build on last year’s solid campaign. At the same time, there are several other SEC QBs including Jalen Milroe of Alabama, Jaxson Dart of Mississippi and Connor Weigman of Texas A&M that pro scouts will be watching carefully this year as each has the potential – in their own way – to push up into the opening round. Same for Riley Leonard, now at Notre Dame, Cam Ward, now at Miami, and Penn State’s Drew Allar, who has first-round tools, but has yet to put it together.
At the same time, as noted above, there is a small army of solid, veteran QBs dotting the college football landscape including Cam Rising of Utah and Missouri’s Brady Cook, who stayed home, as well as a small army of transfers including Will Howard at Ohio State, Tyler Van Dyke at Wisconsin, DJ Uiagalelei at Florida State, Will Rogers at Washington, KJ Jefferson at UCF, Grayson McCall at NC State, Tyler Shough at Louisville, Kyle McCord at Syracuse, Kurtis Rourke at Indiana, and Max Johnson at North Carolina. Here’s our very preliminary ranking of the QBs for 2025, again with the proviso much will change between now and then.
