It’s been assumed for months that the Colorado Buffaloes would have two players go in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft. Travis Hunter is likely to come off the board with the very first pick, while Shedeur Sanders has been expected to be one of, if not the first, quarterback to go.
Well, it might not be as sure-fire as many had expected — at least not with Sanders. While Hunter is going No. 1 overall in pretty much every Mock Draft available, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero says that some NFL scouts aren’t even projecting him as a Day 1 selection, let alone a top 10 player.
“Shedeur Sanders, for a variety of reasons, is going to be a fascinating overall evaluation, and I’ve already talked to people within the league who don’t have anything close to a first-round grade on the guy,” Pelissero said about Sanders on Friday’s episode of the Rich Eisen Show.
“The idea that he’s just going to walk in and going to be the No. 1 pick, that’s probably pushing it… if I were guessing who comes off the board first, I’d say Shedeur is not the first Colorado player off the board as it stands today.”
Of course, the first Buffalo to come off the board in that case would be the Heisman winner, Travis Hunter.
“Travis Hunter may be a generational type of player,” Pelissero explains. “Somebody may well fall in love with Shedeur Sanders and he could go No. 1 overall. I wouldjust say, in my conversations, there his healthy skepticism among people in the league that, when it comes to the end of the process and they get to that last week of April, that somebody is going to jump out there and use a really high pick on making him a franchise QB.”
Pelissero also noted that, of the projected first 10 teams in the 2025 Draft order, several teams are almost assuredly looking to take a quarterback with their first pick if the right guy is there, with the Titans, Browns, Giants, Jets, Raiders, and Saints all being in the market for a franchise quarterback.
