ESPN’s wild new NFL mock draft has a surprise AFC team moving on from their young signal-caller to select Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders.
Shedeur Sanders is regarded as one of the big three QB prospects for the 2025 NFL Draft, along with Georgia’s Carson Beck and Quinn Ewers of Texas. He turned heads last season by completing 69.3 percent of pass attempts for 3,230 yards and 27 touchdowns against only three interceptions despite taking more sacks than any other quarterback in the nation.
A lot can change between now and the end of the 2024 NCAA football season, but it’s not too early to project Sanders as a top-five pick in next year’s draft.
In his early 2025 NFL first-round mock draft, ESPN’s Field Yates projects that the Tennessee Titans will select Sanders with the fourth overall pick and move on from 2023 second-round pick Will Levis:
“If Tennessee is picking this high, it would — like with the Panthers — at least invite questions about whether to address quarterback again. I would argue yes for the Titans, though, as Will Levis being a second-round pick last year makes the financial side of this situation far less complicated than Carolina’s predicament, allowing them to move on from him. Sanders could wind up in the conversation for the first overall pick of the draft, as he’s an absolutely surgical pocket passer. He completed 69.3% of his throws last season and threw just three interceptions. He has great arm strength and pristine accuracy.”
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For what it’s worth, Yates projects that the Giants will trade up for the top pick via the New England Patriots and select Beck. He then has the Las Vegas Raiders securing the other top QB, Ewers, at No. 8.
In the nine games he played during his rookie year, Levis completed 58.4 percent of pass attempts for 1,808 yards and eight touchdowns against four interceptions. He may only be entering his second year, but a rough sophomore season just might prompt the Titans to move on and take a new QB next year.
Titans Would Be A Fascinating Fit For Shedeur Sanders
The Titans aren’t the big-market team that Deion Sanders would probably want his son to play for, but they’d be an interesting landing spot for him nonetheless.
They have two promising young offensive tackles in Peter Skoronski and JC Latham, a star wide receiver in Calvin Ridley and two-time 1,000-yard rusher Tony Pollard. Fellow stud wideouts Tyler Boyd and DeAndre Hopkins are entering their contract years, but GM Ran Carthon will surely be motivated to ensure enough weapons are in place for his next QB if the Titans are in position for someone like Sanders.
