2025 NFL Draft Grades: Geoff Schwartz analyzes the first round

The first round of the NFL 2025 has gone and left.

With that, there is no time to lose. We are going to immerse ourselves in my first round qualifications.

1. Titans: Cam Ward, QB
Grade: a

The Titans made the obvious selection. The Titans needed a change of game in QB, and wrote the most talented player in the position.

2. Jaguars (through Cleveland Browns): Travis Hunter, WR/CB
Grade: a

There was steam in the last 24 hours that the Jaguars were going to make noise on the draft night, and surely they did. Maybe the selection package was too heavy, and we will only know in a few years. What I know at this time is that the Jaguars wrote the most electric player in the draft. Hunter immediately helps the Trevor Lawrence field as an open receiver and that was the objective of the draft: obtaining the most helps.

3. Giants: Abdul Carter, Edge
Grade: a

The giants take the best player available on the board and do not think twice. Carter has a set of skills that makes a rapid transition to the NFL, with the use of the hand, its explosion and its ability to end in Quarterback.

4. Patriots: Will Campbell, OT
Grade: a

The Patriots had to leave the first round with an offensive Tackle, so they dressed from OT1 with the fourth selection. Campbell is a violent offensive liner and became the left Tackle of the Patriots when their name was announced.

5. Browns: Mason Graham, DT
Grade: B+

The Browns exchanged three points while picked up a future first round selection. I am not sure if the browns needed to write a defensive Tackle in the first round. However, it seems clear that with them exchanging and not writing a QB with their first choice, they are giving a little to the next season. Therefore, they add the improved defensive Tackle for the future.

6. Raiders: Ashton Jeanty, RB
Grade: b

Who is blocking for Jeanty? That is the question I have for the Raiders. I have the need to recruit a player like Jeacty, but in a deep corridor class they could have helped develop his offensive line and task in the corridor later in the Draft. In the end, they wrote one of the few super premium players in the draft without having to ascend.

7. Jets: Armand Mebou, OT
Grade: a

The new Jets chief coach Aaron Glenn used to be in Detroit, where he saw the importance of a dominant offensive line. This draft selection is in the mold of what lions are and what jets with Glenn because they will be. Mebou has an outstanding balance and works to end the best of them. Good construction block.

8. Panthers: Tet McMillian, WR
Grade: a

The consensus for months was that the Panthers were going to write a defensive liner to underpin that side of the ball. Instead, they opted for WR1 with the eighth selection. McMillian will be added to an offensive that needs his skill set and will give Bryce Young a great type of receiver to look for the ball. ” I will trust the Panthers Draft Board here.

9. Santos: Kelvin Banks Jr., OT
Grade: b

The Saints rejected the fifth year option for the offensive Trevor Penning Tackle. They have just written their replacement. The saints continue the reconstruction of the offensive line for another year, and you cannot blame them. Chief coach Kellen Moore won a Super Bowl with the Eagles offensive line, so she understands the importance of making sure she is there.

10. Bears: Colston Loveland, in
Grade: B+

Rumors all day on the bears that are potentially exchanged until number 5 by Jeanty, and made the smart game to stay well for a closed wing. The bears have passed the entire building of the low season around Caleb Williams, and do it again with Loveland. I am surprised by Loveland about Tyler Warren, since I think Warren is the most complete closed wing. However, I like your process.

11. 49ers: Mykel Williams, Edge
Grade: a

The 49ers had to go to any of the lines, and decided to start with the defense. Williams is a great and powerful defensive extreme. Hello, it fits the factory of what the 49ers have seen success in that position.

12. Cowboys: Tyler Booker, og
Grade: B+

I was surprised by the eraser of the process that Booker’s name was not discussed as a higher draft selection. In the end, he was recruited as OG1 by a team that is reconstructing his line with the retirement of Zach Martin. I think the cowboys were looking at McMillian, but he was already selected. I like the impact that Booker will have on Dallas.

13. Dolphins: Kenneth Grant, DT
Grade: c

This is the first choice that I thought a team reached a lot above the draft slot. Grant can be a fantastic professional, but he has raw transmission skills and Derrick Harmon or Walter Nolan were greedy. I just don’t think Dolphins have used their draft selection in an immediately explosive player.

14. Colts: Tyler Warren, you
Grade: a

The colts obtained incredible value in Warren, whom I see as a player who can give an exceptional game from such a shocking position. Name a main offensive in the NFL and I can show you its production from the wing closed. Warren can also block, so the ways of using it are endless.

15. Falcons: Jalon Walker, Edge
Grade: a

Is John Abraham the last restriction game, Edge Pass player who have the Falcons? I think so. Well, they wait with the Walker selection, which change. Walker is the best football player in the edge group after Carter and, although he is raw as a edge, the skills are there. Halcons take a great position of necessity.

16. Cardinals: Walter Nolan, DT
Grade: a

The cardinals filled a great need with a defensive Tackle that has tons of rise. It is a former five -star recruit that shows the ability to be trained and exploit with production in the league. It is an intelligent choice for cardinals.

17. Bengals: Shemar Stewart, Edge
Grade: b

The Bengals were linked to take a defensive liner by the majority, since it is a great position of necessity. They write a player without much university production but has the body and tools to improve rapidly. The Bengals only needed to add talent in this position and did.

18. Seahawks: Gray Zabel, Ol
Grade: a

I love this selection for Seahawks. These offensive liners of Dakota are bad, unpleasant and make a rapid transition to the league. Zabel played four positions at the university and will be located in a place of guard for Seattle. This is a perfect combination of necessity with the selection.

19. Buccaneers: Emeka Egbuka, WR
Grade: b

Bucs add a slot receiver to their squad to match their already excellent receiving group. I am not upset to add more talent to the offensive, but I am surprised that they have transmitted to a defensive player.

20. Broncos: Jahdae Barron, DB
Grade: a

A surprising selection for the Broncos, with all those who have a corridor. With the offenses facing the Broncos in the AFC West, having more corners is never a bad thing. Barron is a Twichy player and will combine well with Pat Sortain II.

21. Steelers: Derrick Harmon, DT
Grade: a

Derrick Harmon is one of my lovers. I think it will be a wonderful professional defensive Tackle. He had about 50 pressures last season since the defensive Tackle position, which is very incredible to do at the university. They thought that the Steelers would write a field marshal, but they must have felt that Shedeur Sanders was not good enough to write.

22. Chargers: Omarion Hampton, RB
Grade: b

At pick No. 22, the chargers took a gun to help Justin Herbert. I imagine that the chargers would have loved a great defensive Tackle, but they are all tasks. Hampton is a three -way setback that will provide the offensive of the Chargers with an explosive game potential from the field.

23. Packers: Matthew Golden, WR
Grade: B-

The Packers finally did. They wrote a receiver in the first round, they even thought they thought they would write a corner. Will Johnson’s medals should not have become clean. Anyway, I think it is a good choice and the Packers will need to perfect some technique with Golden. But it can fly, which is always a good start.

24. Vikingos: Donovan Jackson, og
Grade: b

The Vikings continue to build their team’s backbone with Jackson’s writing. It can move well with good balance. This is just a quality choice for Vikings.

25. Giants: Jaxson Dart, QB
Grade: c

If you love a field marshal, you must recruit them. Then I understand what the giants did. I just don’t think Dart is more than they have had in position when Daniel Jones was healthy. I understand why the giants did this, but do nothing for me.

26. Falcons: James Pierce Jr., Edge
Grade: d

The Falcons were negotiated in the first round to write a defensive liner with more potential than production. Clearly, the pass race was a need for Atlanta, but Pierce is not a player that is worth exchanging additional assets. I could also have changed in a lower slot to grab it too. I don’t think he dressed soon.

27. Ravens: Malaki Starks, S
Grade: b

Georgia’s defensive players are good in the NFL and the Ravens needed security. It is a safe choice and the Ravens have stood out in the writing, so we must always trust them.

28. Lions: Tylelk Williams, DT
Grade: c

This is early for Williams, but when you choose at the end of the first round, you don’t have a first round qualification in any player. Lions need help in the defensive line and find it with Williams.

29. Commanders: Josh Conly Jr., OT
Grade: b

I’m not sure where you will play now for commanders, but this is a work for the future. Conly is only 21 years old with so much space to grow in your body. His improvement in the last six games this season is the reason he is in the first round.

30. Bills: Maxwell Harrison, DB
Grade: b

The Bills add Kentucky’s defensive. A position of necessity is filled and can go to the receiver in the second round.

31. Águilas: Jihad Campbell, LB
Grade: a

Howie Roseman does it again. I don’t know how the thesis draft selections continue to find. Campbell is just another show of athletics fans to add to the defense of the Eagles. Only an exceptional draft selection.

32. Chiefs: Josh Simmons, OT
Grade: b

Simmons was OT1 before his knee injury against Oregon on October 12. Chiefs do not “need” to play at this time so that they can allow their knee to heal completely. There is good value. I will have loved Chiefs to find a DT, but there is no one ready.

Geoff Schwartz is an NFL analyst for Fox Sports. He played eight seasons in the NFL for five different teams. He started at the right Tackle for the University of Oregon for three seasons and was a selection of second team All-Pac-12 in his last year. Follow it on Twitter @Geoffschwartz.

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