2025 NFL draft: Latest buzz, best fits, intel on top picks - ESPN

The 2025 NFL draft class is starting to take shape as top prospects make their final on-field statements at pro days across the country. We're a little more than one month from Round 1, which begins April 24.

We've heard a lot of buzz about early picks, potential trades and the quarterback class. So we asked NFL draft analysts Matt Miller, Jordan Reid and Field Yates to break down the latest intel from around the league and dish on what they've heard about intriguing pro day workouts.

Do the Tennessee Titans have a plan for the No. 1 pick? Is Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders really sliding in the first round? What are the best Day 1 prospect fits, and could a sleeper team select a passer early? We get into all that and then let Miller, Reid and Yates alternate selections in a mini mock draft of the top 12 picks. Finally, our experts empty their scouting notebooks with what they're hearing, seeing and thinking as we near April.

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Titans' top pick buzz | Sanders' stock
Best team fits | Sleeper QB teams
Mini mock draft | More notes from this week

Miller: In conversations with sources around the NFL in the past two weeks, I've often heard that front office executives aren't quite convinced on this quarterback class. That might be the case in Tennessee. The way I hear it, nothing is settled with the Titans, even though they didn't sign a veteran QB in free agency.

Pro day visits — specifically the interviews and time spent with the players — are crucial for teams making QB decisions, and that could help cement what Tennessee does in Round 1. And the Titans have ample time to make a call on whether Miami's Cam Ward or Colorado's Shedeur Sanders could be their guy under center. But trading the pick or deciding to instead go with