The 2025 NFL draft has come and gone, bringing a new class of quarterbacks into the pro ranks. The 2025 quarterback class was not particularly lauded, with just one player—No. 1 pick Cam Ward—going at the top of the draft and just two in the entire first round. Shedeur Sanders, widely projected as a first or, at worst, second-round pick, slid all the way to the fifth round. He was the headliner, but a number of quarterbacks wound up going later than many would have guessed entering the weekend.
Ward is the favorite to open the year as the starter for the Tennessee Titans, and even if the team opts to give Will Levis the job for Week 1, the clock is ticking. The rest of the class is fighting an uphill battle to capturing one of the 32 coveted QB1 jobs. Of the league's projected starters for the upcoming season, 25 of the 32 quarterbacks are former first-round picks. Just two—the Dallas Cowboys' Dak Prescott and San Francisco 49ers' Brock Purdy—were taken on day three of the draft.
