Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald discuss where Shedeur Sanders and Jalen Milroe land on Nate’s 2025 NFL Draft big board and what Nate’s seen from studying film. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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She is my quarterback, threes.

Sanders from Colorado.

Sure Sanders has improved.

I, I have to give him crap like his pocket feels so much better.

It's still not great.

He's just, you know, his size stuff worries.

Me too.

He's 611 96.

Ok. Athlete, but I would say a good arm, not an amazing arm but good arm.

He's willing to throw in the middle.

He can be aggressive when he has a clean pocket, he can fire it in there.

It's just when he has to create, I get a little worried because he's not an overwhelming athlete.

He doesn't have overwhelming size.

He's not a creative thrower but man, when he's in a clean pocket, I, I, I give him a lot of credit for him where he can fire that ball in there and, and he's tough as hell.

All these guys are tough and then Mil Rowe, like I said, he made a big bump for me.

I almost had him grouped with those other two.

My kind of mid forties.

I bumped him up because I just watched, I kept watching him and, you know, he, I've never seen a quarterback throw past the line of scrimmage more often than him, uh where he is past the line of scrimmage, he is just making better decisions.

His eyes are going into the right spot like you can really see the new kind of offensive coaching influence on him and he's making and, and it's the classic if you make a mistake, make it fast, you know, uh you know, coaching point, he's doing that.

So it's eyes are going in the right spot.

He's got a great arm, ok?

If it's not open, all right, create, go run, use your 44 speed and size and go get it.

So I'm more bullish on him than I expected to be before studying him.

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