Now complete, the 2025 NFL draft will go down as one of the league’s more memorable ones – though it’s destined to mostly be remembered for Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders’ free fall to the fifth round, which made Aaron Rodgers’ infamous wait 20 years before seem like a mere glitch, writes USA TODAY Sports' Nate Davis.
The Sanders saga aside, this draft also produced the drama, head-scratching decisions and OMG moments inherent to the annual “Player Selection Meeting.” And speaking of any draft’s endemic components, it’s now time to prematurely grade its results … about three years before that’s a remotely fair exercise. But we eat from microwaves far more routinely than slow cookers, right?
One note about the report card methodology: As I grade each team, the goal is to pull back for a big-picture look at its performance holistically rather than judging from a narrow perspective that doesn't include trades and other considerations that more accurately frame the decisions.
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