3 Teams That Could Steal Texas’ Quinn Evers In 2025 NFL Draft

After going back and forth about where he should play football next season, whether it’s at his current home, the University of Texas, for a new college football team like, say, Kenny Dillingham’s Arizona State’s fast-growing program through the transfer portal, or at the professional level, Quinn Evers has officially made things official: announcement for the year 2025 NFL draft.

Now, for fans in Austin, this is about as close to a situation as they could have hoped for, as they will now be able to watch the Texas legend play in the NFL instead of for a future opponent as he also gets to formally begin the Arch Manning erawho was unofficially strong, even if he only saw the field every now and then on cleanup duty.

And as for Evers? Well, he can join a draft class that’s pretty light on truly transformative arms behind the one-two punch of Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders, even if the Michael Penix Jr.-esque vault. in the first round makes it unlikely for a Longhorn KB.

Why? Well, because according to the NFL Mock Draft consensus large boardEvers is currently listed as the 51st ranked prospect in the 2025 class.

Of course, could that change pretty quickly? Oh yeah, especially for quarterbacks, since multiple players who went in the first round last year didn’t have a grade on the first day of January. Still, as things stand right now, Evers isn’t expected to go in the first round and, as a result, likely won’t go to a team that wants to play right away. Fortunately, that’s probably a good thing for Austin’s pride, as he likely isn’t ready to make the immediate transition to the NFL level unless presented with the perfect situation, which almost never happens for players who are drafted high by typically bad teams.

So, with Evers having the potential to make almost any team in the NFL as a second-rounder, what scenarios make sense for the former Texas starter? Why not take a look and find out.

1. Quinn Evers could compete with the Las Vegas Raiders

For the second year in a row, it looks like the Las Vegas Raiders may have been too good to land their quarterback of the future with the top pick. That’s right, after being linked to every top quarterback in the 2025 NFL Draft at one point or another during the regular season, the Raiders now find themselves with only sixth overall pick.

Mind you, maybe the fans are over-hyping this year’s KB as they often do, and one or even both upper arms will be on the board when the Raiders come up to bat. But it seems just as likely, if not more so, that the Raiders could choose between Mason Graham, Abdul Carter and Kelvin Banks Jr. at sixth, all of whom would fill a position of need, but not their the biggest position of need.

In 2024, the pick of the best available player turned out pretty well for the Raiders, as Brock Bowers likely surrendered the best season for a rookie tight end in NFL history. But he still had to catch passes from Gardner Minshaw and Aidan O’Connell on a sub-.500 team, which in some ways makes his performance even more impressive.

If the Raiders pass on KB in the first round, instead taking a blue-chip guy at second, then adding Evers in the second could produce similar results to Will Lewis’ rookie season at Tennessee before, you know, falling apart in sometimes comical ways .

Locked in with a new — presumably offensive-minded — head coach, an A+ security blanket in Bowers and one of the best QBs of all time in Tom Brady as a shoulder to lean on from the ownership box, Evers could compete to start right out of the gate, take the field when he’s ready and eventually he is strong enough support to make sure he can succeed right out of the gate.

2. Quinn Evers could have learned from Matthew Stafford in LA

Alternatively, there is a long-term path to NFL success for Evers if he lands on a team that doesn’t want to play him in 2025 or even beyond, barring disaster, including the Los Angeles Rams, who have long been in the running for the developmental passer behind Matthew Stafford.

They tried that with Baker Mayfield when they asked the Oklahoma product off the bench in 2022. They tried again in 2023 when they drafted Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett before he took a year off from football. And then they did it again in 2024 when they signed Jimmy Garoppolo as a potential successor if things worked out indeed wrong and Stafford was shipped out of town mid-season.

With the Rams currently two wins away from a Super Bowl appearance in the NFC, their current core of Stafford, Cooper Cupp and Puka Nakua will likely remain for the foreseeable future under Sean McVay. But what happens if Stafford goes down completely in 2025 and LA has to usher in the next era of Rams football, whether they like it or not? Well, Les Snead may find that concern worth a Day 2 draft pick, with Evers a great option if he’s still on the board when the Rams pick.

Would it be disappointing to see Evers spend a year or two on the bench? For Texans fans, potentially so, but if the end result is Natsu and Kupp throwing passes while Kieran Williams dominates the ground for the foreseeable future under one of the best offensive coaches in the NFL? Yes, I think that compromise would absolutely be worth the wait.

3. Quinn Evers and Travis Hunter give Cleveland fans hope

And last but not least, if the Browns decide to make Travis Hunter their new two-way star, bypassing the upper arm in favor of, say, a trade for Kirk Cousins, they would immediately become a team to watch at the top of the second round to Is a player like Evers still on the board?

Now that you consider it, the idea of ​​drafting Cleveland could best be described as excruciating even for the most reliable quarterback in college football, as the team has only had two quarterbacks lead them to the playoffs in modern team history and they both was eventually allowed to leave the franchise for greener pastures. Mayfield felt like the true savior of the organization before he was unceremoniously traded to the Carolina Panthers, and even 40 Joe Flacco was allowed to leave after his efforts in 2023 to avoid competition with Deshaun Watson.

With Watson now expected to be sidelined indefinitely for a another tear in his Achilles in three monthsThe Browns need an answer now and an answer indefinitely at quarterback. While Evers’ agent might not be too pumped about the prospect, there are much worse scenarios than playing in Kevin Stefanski’s offense and throwing passes to Jerry Jeddy, especially if Hunter is also in the mix as a part-time pass-catching option in addition to being played big snaps as the starting outside cornerback opposite Denzel Varda. It might not be pretty, but it might work.