To some, the Atlanta Falcons made home-run selections in the 2025 NFL draft by doubling up on edge rushers in Round 1. Others felt the team reached and gave up considerable value to draft a player with reported character concerns.

The Atlanta Falcons are happy with their 2025 NFL draft haul, but analysts around the league seem to be split. Whenever a team makes a bold move, as the Falcons did by trading up for Tennessee edge James Pearce Jr.

The most shocking part of the 2025 NFL Draft was definitely the fact that Shedeur Sanders ended up sliding all the way down to the fifth round. Plenty of experts -- like CBS Sports NFL insider Jonathan Jones -- predicted that he would fall out of the first round,

University of Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders was once expected to be a top five pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. However, after not hearing his name called during Thursday's first round or Friday's second and third rounds,

According to CBS Sports’ Jonathan Jones, Sanders would purposely do poorly in interviews with certain teams that he wasn’t as interested in being drafted to. “At some of those [combine] meetings with certain teams that maybe Shedeur Sanders didn’t really want to go to