PFF Grades of the top QB prospects for this draft and last year's draft

[MightyGiants]

Looking at the 2024 PFF QB prospect grades, they seemed to correlate rather well to year one success.  So, in bold are the top 2025 prospects mixed in with the 2024 grades for last year's class (not in bold).


Jayden Daniels- 94.7
Bo Nix- 93.0
Cam Ward- 92.5
Jaxson Dart- 91.9
Michael Penix Jr.- 91.1
Shedeur Sanders- 91.0
Drake Maye- 90.8
J.J. McCarthy- 90.6
Kyle McCord- 90.5
Caleb Williams- 90.3
Dillon Gabriel- 87.0
Jalen Milroe- 86.8
Will Howard- 84.0
Riley Leonard- 82.3
Spencer Rattler- 77.6
Quinn Ewers- 72.7

[Gmo11]

So by at least one metric this year's class isn't all that much worse than last year's. Kinda crazy they have McCord and Caleb Williams basically the same because I certainly don't have that but they did have a pretty high success rate. So perhaps if the Giants can take Hunter or another defensive player at #3 but still get Dart later in the 1st round via trade up it would be the best case scenario. 

Where Dart ends up is one of the most interesting aspects of this draft.  I could see him rising into the top 10 or falling into the 2nd round and I feel like it's 50-50. 

[MightyGiants]

Here's another of my favorite measures-  QBR

This past season



The prior season

[Bob In PA]

Well, we can go round and round about relative strength of QB's in this draft versus 2024, but in the long run we will know what the Giants really think, because as I've said before Pick Three under the circumstances of this particular draft will be great for Giants' fans because it will be virtually impossible for them to hide their true feelings about those two QB's (by issuing post-draft b.s.). Bob

[Ed Vette]

The competition they faced is a factor, contrary to what some believe. The Secondary's Sanders faced compared to Dart is notable. How they performed against better competition is a key too. How would Sanders have performed at LSU or Oregon in 2024? How about Ward? Dart? McCord?

[madbadger]

https://x.com/nflrookiewatxh/status/1880341839313518634?s=46&t=4x-JXwsXYehIZ1h3v6r-zQ

[Jclayton92]

The competition they faced is a factor, contrary to what some believe. The Secondary's Sanders faced compared to Dart is notable. How they performed against better competition is a key too. How would Sanders have performed at LSU or Oregon in 2024? How about Ward? Dart? McCord?

Came here to say the exact same thing, the competition in the SEC and BIG10 are completely different than what Ward and Sanders faced. It's a factor in why Beck left Georgia for Miami to raise his draft stock against inferior competition.

I mean Duke in the ACC was a top 15 defense and Jaxson dart went in without his top 2 Wrs and put up 500 total yards and 4 tds by himself. The year before he did it in the peach bowl vs Penn St when they had the top ranked defense. I doubt Sanders or Ward played a top 40 defense outside maybe clemson vs Miami.