It’s become clear that scouts view only two quarterbacks in this year’s draft class as elite prospects: Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders and Miami’s Cam Ward. While it’s almost certain that both players will be taking the next step to the NFL following this college football season, Sanders pretty much made it official, this week by accepting an invite to play in the East-West Shrine Bowl this winter. Sanders has been one of two leaders on an electric Buffalos team that is still in the running for the Big 12 championship and a spot in the College Football Playoff.
Sanders ranks sixth in the FBS with 322.2 passing yards per game and is tied for second with 27 passing touchdowns, adding four scores on the ground. He has a chance to end the season with a bang by rattling off some wins here to close out 2024 and continue elevating his stock in the 2025 NFL Draft.
Ward is right up there with Sanders. He leads the FBS in both passing yards (3,409) and passing touchdowns (32) and has four additional scrimmage touchdowns of his own (three on the ground and one receiving). He’s led the Hurricanes to a 9-1 record through 10 games, and like Colorado, Miami is in position to appear in its conference title game and secure a spot in the 12-team playoff.
Past Sanders and Ward, though, experts view 2025’s quarterback class as fairly barren. In a discussion with Brock Huard of Fox Sports and Steve Serby of the New York Post, ESPN’s Matt Miller said that “it’s Shedeur 1..
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