Raiders make trade to get Shedeur Sanders in top 5 of ESPN’s early 2025 mock draft
The Raiders didn’t get their QB of the future this year, but they do next year in an ESPN 2025 NFL mock Draft.
The Las Vegas Raiders missed out on all the quarterbacks in the 2024 NFL Draft, so they’ll go into the season with Aidan O’Connell and Gardner Minshew under center. So, it stands to reason they will be looking for a QB again next season, and in ESPN’s 2025 mock NFL Draft, Las Vegas makes a big move, trading up to select Colorado football signal-caller Shedeur Sanders.
In Jordan Reid’s 2025 mock NFL Draft on ESPN, the Tennessee Titans pick at No. 5 and the Raiders start with the No. 10 selection. Reid has Vegas trading up, though, and taking the second QB off the board (after Georgia’s Carson Beck at No. 1), Shedeur Sanders.
“With Davante Adams, Jakobi Meyers and Brock Bowers on offense, the Raiders can set up a young passer really well. And Sanders is a smooth operator whose game centers on his great ball placement (69.3% completion rate last season, eighth in the FBS) and calm demeanor when protected in the pocket,” Reid writes. “He took 52 sacks in 2023 behind a struggling offensive line, so Sanders’ internal clock must speed up before he gets to the next level; he tends to compound mistakes by holding on to the ball too long. But he has a ton of talent and can certainly be the answer for Las Vegas. I see a lot of similarities to Geno Smith in his game.”
