The Raiders are in the running for one of the top picks in the 2025 draft, but is there a quarterback at the top of the draft worth being excited about?
There doesn’t seem to be consensus on the top quarterback prospect among this year’s group, but Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders is the early favorite to be the first quarterback drafted.
There are reasons to believe the Raiders will be interested in Sanders, but many don’t consider him an elite prospect at the level of Caleb Williams or Jayden Daniels.
Yahoo and FOX Sports radio host Jason Fitz talked about the 2025 draft class this week and he has been told this year’s top quarterback would rank as the 6th-best quarterback in last year’s draft.
If accurate, the Raiders landed on a terrible year to need to quarterback while sitting on one of the top picks in the draft…
Looking specifically at Sanders, Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter touched on him in a recent podcast…
“I’m going to tell you a couple of things. And I don’t want to get into all these guys, but just a little bit. In the interest of full disclosure, I love Deion Sanders. Love the guy. He is not a friend, I’m not implying that, but away from football, I have had several interactions with him. I respect him personally,” Hondo said on the Las Vegas Raiders Insider podcast.
“Maybe sometimes the bravado is over the top, I admit that. But I like him and I respect him, and he is just an unbelievable father. There are some concerns with Shedeur that I’m hearing from scouts, and I’ll tell you what those are,” Hondo continued. “None of them are character, like he is a bad kid. But I’ll give you one example, and there are several, but I’ll give you one… He loses the Nebraska game and after the game in his press conference, he says, ‘How many times did the Nebraska quarterback get hit?’ And I had a scout tell me he not only threw his teammates under the bus, but he also threw his dad, because these are the kids his dad recruited under the bus. And he said, I know in our organization how we rate quarterbacks, that he took a huge hit…”
“[The same scout] gave me some others that I’m not allowed to share publicly, just because they don’t want to share all of their scouting, but because that one happened publicly, and so many scouts have talked about it,” Hondo said. “Carson Beck, there’s a lot of concern that he’s distant from his teammates. He’s not a bad teammate. He’s just, he’s a business guy. He walks out of the locker room, does his thing, and I’ve heard this from people at Georgia who get frustrated with him, and I’ve heard it from the scouts.”
A couple of players Hondo says he has heard good things about from the scouting community are two players that might not even be drafted in the first round…
“Jaxson Dart is a guy that I’ve not heard one blemish on. [Garrett] Nussmeier is a guy I haven’t heard a blemish on. I’m just giving people some names. The point of the matter is, you don’t want to get to the draft next year thinking, we got to get a quarterback if one’s not there, and you miss a Brock Bowers.”
It’s early, but right now it doesn’t seem like the most exciting outlook for any teams desperate to find a franchise quarterback in the draft.
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I’d trust Pookie’s Fly By Night Used Car Sales more than anything Hondo Carpenter spouts off about.
I’ve been vilified for saying the exact same thing.
Tom Brady was the best at it, at the end of the day this is a American privilege to watch this kids play a game that once they hit the NFL they better be ready and I look at legends and really look at 95 percent this kids and man are playing with broken toes bodies aching and we complain when they express a feeling people , imagine putting work to go out and look lost whoever take this privilege and act like they lives depends on it, and if your lives does then you are the is the problem, i wish I could get a job with them I have them winning Ring, if my team is looking at the next QB I would make it my job to put seeds in they heads remember is a game that was supposed to bring the best out of us and them,
Is that the same scout that helped put the past 3 teams together… maybe it’s time for a new scout and insider…
They will get a qb rest assured. And they will have a boatload of cash to get a free agent running back. Minshew is in the dumpster along with O’Connell. Koonce will get a contract extension and Crosby and Koonce will be scary. A couple of other injured players will bounce back. Epps and Christian Wilkerson. So keep up the hate our days in the Sun are coming soon.
I came to USA 1989 from Honduras and Raiders and Yankees became my escape I study read learn but I was blessed to see Moss Rice Gannon Porter Tim Brown E smith Vick Sanders, And Saunders is going make a lot of franchises mad and I hope Brady and Mark are ready because so far And is sad because I love college football I’m a hoe lol,but My heart has been ripped from my Raiders 2017 was and still stings I will never forget I was ready to draft Patrick i remember And I still have my NFL diary my goal was keep Mack attack trade Carr take Patrick Mahoney, and Carr proved 2017 was another wasted season I remember Carr throw his team listen I disagree with NFL politics because is a game not a political party I live in New York and i remember going to work and some player wife was on Hot 97 saying that Carr did some Bs, now I understand you white and you not getting into a black situation But the way it sound your team ask you to stand back while they will kneel but you go stand in front like F them the shows you not a leader and I was proved right Mack gets traded Chucky becomes racist which I believe it was personal not a skin color anyway Carr got paid for like a top 3 QB but played like a top 25 I believe 77 percent QB rating yeah, look at this year WTF you let Jacobs walk you pay Adams lose Carr thank you for taking this long to move Carr lol but I do see better times I believe Brady, will get Sanders we get a RB let’s not forget AP going with iNT throwing machine was a head scratching move but losing Koonce was huge hit because we wasn’t going out scored teams we was a defensive team sorry but the facts were trade Adams early get picks hope second year QB can leap from average to good to really good but AP hit the panic button when Koonce was lost and losing Jacobs sucked
I agree I think the raiders should use that first pick and get one of the linebackers like Williams and Wilson out of Georgia then go for Jaxson Dart in the second round, his numbers are better than schuler and the guy from LSU, and then build the offense, but you’re right about Sanders, I’ve watched too many first round picks from the raiders be a bust, Brock was a miracle,
The Raiders I like the Coach but they need a Star Q.B. and beef up the O line!