It is the day of the Draft. On Thursday night, the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, will cross a scenario outside Lambeau Field and declare the NFL 2025 draft officially open.
If you feel for you as if the draft has an open bone for months, it is not alone.
But we have arrived, and it is time to turn the last rumors before everything really begins.
Jaxson Dart QB2?
In the last hours before the NFL of 2025, a couple of notable experts: Daniel Jeremiah with the NFL Network and Dane Brugler with The Atlético – He launched his simulated draft finals.
Both had Jaxson Dart, no Shedeur Sanders, like the second quarterback outside the board.
In its final drill, Jeremiah has the New York giants to return to the first round in an agreement with the Seattle Sehawks and select the Mississippi pin in No. 18:
The giants and the browns are candidates to change to the first round, with the aim of moving forward in front of the QB steers. I have heard of Seahawks looking to trade from Ronda 1, so this match makes sense. New York would get its is QB and the GM of Seattle John Schneider would be armed with a lot of selections of day 2 after this exchange. There is a belief in the league circles that the giants see Dart as a better adjustment than Shedeur Sanders.
As for Brugger, his final drill causes Sanders to slide to the Pittsburgh Steelers at number 21 and, instead, he chooses Oregon’s defensive Tackle, Derrick Harmon. The Oregon DT has been connected with the steelers in recent weeks, to the point that we suggest that he had to buy a house in Pittsburgh. Brugler points out that although he had Sanders to Pittsburgh in his simulated draft after the combination, he would not be surprised if Harmon is the choice.
Then, at number 26, the giants return to the first round in an exchange with the Los Angeles Rams, to take Dart.
Trade! The giants move from the second round to the selection of the Rams and take a field marshal. Leaving Round 1 with Carter and Dart brings some emotion to the organization of the giants.
If New York aims to Dart, I could push Sanders to Ronda 2, where the Browns could grab him. 33.
In fact, Sanders falls from the first round in Brugler’s last simulated draft.
As we point out earlier this week, there is a significant stir around the pairing of Giants-Dart, and Todd McShay believes that New York chief coach Brian Daboll is a fan. At least, it seems that Dart can be the best option of the giants in QB later tonight.
And since we are talking about final simulated drafts, here is the final effort of our own JP Acosta, which has Sanders as QB2 for Steelers in NO. 21.
Mel Kiper Jr.’s last buzz
The sponsor of the NFL draft coverage some of the latest talks he has collected in the hours before the Draft, in a column that also includes the final simulated draft of Field Yates.
(For the discussion of Sanders, Yates makes the Cleveland Browns change to the first round in an agreement with the Washington commanders, to take to the Colorado Field Marshal as the second QB outside the board).
These are some of Kiper’s things in that piece, but the whole column is worth its time:
- Jacksonville leaves the offensive in number 5: Surely it sounds like Jacksonville was offended. “I commonly planned the defensive Tackle of Michigan Mason Graham there in recent months, but the last Intel says that Coen and the Jaguars point to Jeanty or maybe the Arizona Tetaira McMillan receiver. I heard McMillan compared to Mike Evans, who played for Coen in Tampa Bay.”
- Santos who are in number 9: “I would see the offensive line. [Kelvin] Banks could fit if it is still available, especially because it can play a guard if necessary. I turned Banks until number 13 on my great final board. “
- Colts Thinking you: “Everyone connects the cakes with closed wings. As such, I have heard that some teams could be commercial to trade in advance or Indianapolis to obtain [Colston] Loveland thought it is not clear why. “
- In a possible trade of commanders-bronuses: “The commanders are in a good place, having changed their list quickly. Move down for another choice and still land a good perspective in the upper part of the second round would be a good business. Cornack and Rree Nede Nede Nede Nede Nede Nede Three, and Rree Nede Three, and Rree Nede Needs.
“Some perspectives that could adapt to the commanders, whether they stay at number 29 or ended at the top of Round 2: the border corridor of Boston College Donovan Ezeiruaku, the corner of Kentucky Maxwell Hairson, the Ohio state corridor, Treveyon Henderson, the corner Ole Miss, Trey Amos and the corridor of the corridor of Tennessee Edge James Pearce Jr. “
Again, the whole piece is worth its time.
George Pickens stop following the steelers on Instagram
So you want to be a sports journalist …
The game has changed. Late longs in changing rooms and press boxes have given way to displace social networks and notice when players have stopped following their current equipment in different applications. The latest? The open receiver George Pickens has stopped following the Pittsburgh Steelers on Instagram, leading to rumors that the organization can be exchanging the WR in the next few days.
Conformity with Fox Sports The privileged information of the NFL Jordan Schultz, the name of Pickens has emerged in recent days, Trade Treing discussions:
Sources: multiple teams have mentioned #Seelers WR George Pickens in commercial discussions, and is a name to see this week. Pittsburgh is not active to buy it, but conversations have tasks.
Pickens is the last year of his contract. https://t.co/xrvgzpwmcj pic.twitter.com/EHQS78OG3U
– Jordan Schultz (@schultz_report) April 23, 2025
With Steelers adding DK Metcalf this low season, they could seek to move pickens if the correct exchange is sacrificed.
What is Buffalo thinking at number 30?
A team that we have not discussed much in these summaries of rumors prior to the draft are the Buffalo Bills, which sit in the No. 30 After losing the AFC championship game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Buffalo has some different needs, mainly on the defensive side of football, which could address in the first round. Defensive Tackle is a common choice for them in simulated drafts, just like the corner.
According to Tony Pauline from Sportskeeda, Buffalo has only 12 players with a first round qualification.
One of those players could be the corner of Texas Jahdae Barron. As Charles Robinson pointed out in his last piece prior to the Draft, the Bills are one of the three teams he has identified how to search, and Barron is a probable player they point to:
If Texas Corner Jahdae Barron arrives at Selection 21 in the Draft, you could absolutely see the Bills calling and asking about 21 of 30. It is worth noting that the Bills have two second round selections to help climb the board if ITIT ITIT IITOT IITOT IITOT ITIT IITORT IITORT.
If you want an offensive liner, don’t wait
Another interesting note of Robinson’s piece on Wednesday could be of particular interest to certain fans bases, such as those of Foxborough’s metropolitan area:
I think we are going to see a first round dominated by offensive rules, defensive rulers and edge corridors, with as many as nine offensive line teams in the former, versus 10 first round selections dedicated to defensive tacles. Within that group, you will want to pay close attention to the offensive Tackle place because the five best types of the battery: Will Campbell de LSU, Armand Memuri, Kelvin Banks Jr. de Texas, Josh Conerly. and Josh Simmons of Ohio State: the evaluators I spoke had a significant fall for the next shelf, with the following set of tacle evaluated as grades of third second round of the second late round. In a nutshell: if your team needs an initial offensive Tackle by 2025, you really need to take it in the first round.
For teams that look at the offensive line, it is thought that you can negotiate a bit in the draft and still get a very good offensive liner, while adding an extra draft on the road. While that is sometimes a good movement to make, there are associated risks.
In this year’s Draft class, according to Robinson, the exchange could see you lose players who can enter the initial alignment in autumn.
Be careful with operators.
Chicago connected to what he feels like half of the board on the No. 10
One thing you can say about the Chicago Bears at number 10 is this:
They will have options.
Yesterday, the NFL draft world was full of rumors that the Bears were negotiated in the first round, perhaps for the Boe State Ashton Jeanty corridor. This buzz occurred after the weekend that the bears were “praying” so that the RB fell before them in number 10.
But as this piece of Alyssa Barbieri ate Wire Notes, Jeanty is just one of several options for the team tonight. The offensive Tackle is an option, with Oregon’s left Tackle, Josh Conly Jr. or Lieutenant Kelvin Banks Jr. de Texas as potential objectives.
In addition, the offensive Tackle of Lsu Will Campbell, who made a previous visit to the Draft with Chicago, revealed that the team told him that he is a bear next season, he is “playing the left Tackle.”
Then there is Michigan’s closed wing, Colston Loveland. This is a pairing that I love, and makes sense when you consider the offensive of the new chief coach Ben Johnson in Detroit. With the closed wing Sam Laporta instead, the lions had an option for Jared Goff in the middle of the field, and adding a closed wing to the beginning of the draft would give Caleb Williams that same son of security blanket in the middle of the field.
Loveland would be a fascinating option for them in no. 10.
As Barbieri pointed out, Todd McShay is or a similar mind. “Call me in October when your young field marshal who had all those problems last year now has a coach who can cook some schemes in the laboratory and use two closed wings,” said McShay. “Now we can be in 12 people, and now we are a headache.”