Let the NFL mock drafts begin. This week the godfather of mock drafting — ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. — released his first pass at the 2025 NFL mock draft. The New York Giants hold the third overall selection in the upcoming draft and are desperately searching for their next franchise quarterback.

Kiper isn’t the only person who’s predicted the Giants to pick the 22-year-old Colorado product. His own father, Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, said he knew “for a fact” that New York would be picking his son in the 2025 Draft in an interview on “The Pac Man Jones Show” in December — at the time, Deion thought the Giants would have the No. 1 pick.

Mel Kiper revealed his NFL Mock Draft 1.0 for the 2025 edition Tuesday and had Shedeur Sanders going No. 3 overall to the New York Giants. With Cam Ward going to the Titans with the first pick and Sanders’ Colorado teammate Travis Hunter going No.

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In the latest mock from our Christian D’Andrea — a top-five mini-mock — he had the Browns taking Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders at quarterback. But in Mel Kiper Jr.’s first mock of the year for ESPN, he had Sanders’ teammate Travis Hunter going to Cleveland and Sanders going to the New York Giants at No. 3.

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Which team could land Shedeur Sanders? Will there be more first-round defensive prospects this year? Mel Kiper Jr. projects the opening 32 picks.