Forecasting the 2025 NFL draft, one year out: Miller’s early

• Matt Miller, NFL draft analystJul 2, 2024, 06:50 AM ET

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  Matt Miller is an NFL draft analyst for ESPN, providing extensive hunting on the nation’s top professional potential customers. A Missouri native, Matt joined ESPN in 2022 and also adds to SportsCenter, NFL Live and ESPN Radio. You can follow Matt on Twitter through @nfldraftscout.

The 2025 NFL draft is still more than 9 months away, however I’m currently digging into tape on the top potential customers in the class, including a handful of potential franchise quarterbacks. And with NFL training school on the horizon and the start of the 2024 college football season not far behind, I’m doing an early projection of all 32 first-round choices for next year’s draft.Our draft order

for this exercise originates from ESPN’s Football Power Index, which uses countless simulations to predict the 2024 NFL season. In turn, that provides us a 1-32 order, beginning with the Patriots at No. 1. But would New England hang onto the top pick or trade it away to a QB-needy team? Spoiler: I predicted 2 trades in this mock draft, including an offer including the No. 1 selection.Of course, a lot will change before teams are really on the clock next April. Prospects will fluctuate on draft boards, and a few of these players will eventually return to school for another year. We have an entire season of game tape ahead of us– and I undoubtedly have not viewed a lot on everyone just yet. So what follows is just an early look at what could take place based on what I have actually seen, what I’m hearing, what each team may require and what might make sense. Let’s leap in.Note: Underclassmen are noted with an asterisk.