Mel Kiper's first Big Board rankings for 2025 NFL Draft👀 | First Draft 🏈

Welcome to "First Draft"! Hosted by Mike Greenberg, Mel Kiper Jr. and Field Yates, we're back to break down the first edition of Mel's 2025 Big Board, ranking the top prospects of the 2025 NFL Draft. Through two weeks of the 2024-25 college football regular season, the crew hits on Quinn Ewers (QB, Texas), Shedeur Sanders (QB, Colorado), Cam Ward (QB, Miami), Ashton Jeanty (RB, Boise State) and Abdul Carter (OLB, Penn State).

(0:00) Welcome to First Draft
(1:13) Texas QB Quinn Ewers' draft stock
(10:42) How Shedeur Sanders could overcome early struggles
(16:00) Travis Hunter lands top spot on Mel's Big Board
(19:45) Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty puts nation on notice
(23:47) Can Cam Ward make a splash come draft night?
(34:06) Penn State OLB Abdul Carter + notable defensive forces
(36:58) Did Notre Dame QB Riley Leonard hurt draft stock?
(41:19) Fan questions and comments!
(46:15) See you next week!

[Dietghostscp]

Ah yes me a Giants fan watching this already for like the 6th year in a row.

[sboyer]

Cam Ward is a top 10 pick hands down 🙌

[dak]

Cam Ward gotta be QB1 for me, hopefully he’s in the Heisman running in the end

[davidwollerton]

Shady Sanders has shown his maturity by throwing his O-Line under the bus. Imagine what he would do in the NFL.

[kountryque]

I like this show you can watch the college games even more in depth

[antball]

Sanders my top Qb in this draft he can actually pocket pass better then the guys that came out last year

[thepwrjunkie]

Dillon Gabriel has been sacked more than Shedeur, & you don't hear any crying about his O Line. Also Quinn Ewers has a great arm, I hope the actual scouts are paying closer attention, that is kind of a major miss.

[Turtle_D_Money]

Cam ward will be the best out this bunch

[TheParlayChannel]

Nebraska is an improved team but they were also at home. Major upsets happened this week when ALA, TENN, USC, Michigan were all upset on the road

[zthelegend]

Quinn Ewers doesn’t have great arm strength?

[Cruzylife]

Quinn ewers isn’t an nfl talent. He’s a decent back up in the league

[jaramieblack]

Tell me you haven’t watched Quinn Ewers without telling me you haven’t watched him.

Dudes got a rocket attached to his shoulder.

[sampsoncreech]

How much is Hunter targeted. What are the stats?

[kennethmatthews]

Man, whoever drafts Shedeur will be fired in 2 years. QB1 doesn't go out there making excuses, bringing up how good the other QB has it.

[swagsick]

Calling Cam Ward entertaining is weird.. you know who else is entertaining.. Pat Mahomes!
Cam has the best QBR in the nation, and on track to throw for 4k yards and 40+ touchdowns! Sit back and watch him, dude is great in the pocket

[colbyhofferek]

Quinn Ewers has better arm strength than Shedeur Sanders. I really don’t understand the hype behind Sanders “arm strength”. He underthrows every deep ball, and if it’s to Hunter then Hunter’s winning most of those 50/50s. Ewers problem on the deep ball is overthrowing. Ewers has solid arm strength

[ramongonzalez]

lol that Colorado O line gives me flashback of last season Giants O line

[juniegyllenhaal]

Ward reminds me of Watson back at Clemson

[PurAquas]

Quinn / JT sanders / brooks That would be epic

[kfi]

When it comes to Travis they said Ohtani couldn’t do it but he has, just because it’s not the norm doesn’t mean it can’t be done