NFL Spin Zone

It’s officially the 2025 offseason for all but four NFL teams, which means we’re leaning heavily into 2025 NFL Mock Draft season here. Mock drafts are always an exercise in futility when it comes to overall accuracy, but it’s one of the best ways to look at possible scenarios, potential team/prospect fits, as well as play a game of What If? And that’s exactly what we’re going to do today. In this mock draft, we’re going to look at a scenario that asks, what if the Pittsburgh Steelers make a bold move up the board for a quarterback? What if the Las Vegas Raiders and Minnesota Vikings work out a tag and trade deal for quarterback Sam Darnold? What if the Cleveland Browns take a local product at quarterback in round two? And that’s exactly what we’re going to look at in this two-round mock draft scenario. The Steelers strike up a blockbuster trade with the Patriots which costs them their second-round pick in 2025 and a 1st-round pick in 2026 while the Vikings get a 2nd-round pick out of the Raiders for Sam Darnold. Let’s see how this madness might play out.