{"id":17793,"date":"2025-05-02T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/17793\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:40:07","slug":"giants-nearly-top-the-league-in-gpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/17793\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants nearly top the league in GPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 2025 NFL Draft Team Grades<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4ve compiled 24 evaluations of the 2025 NFL draft and totaled the team grades.<br \/>Sorted by GPA for all 32 teams. I sorted the 24 evaluations by GPA as well. From left (soft) to right (hard graders).<br \/>Thanks to all who give out grades every year! \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HW69yxX702\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HW69yxX702<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ren\u00e9 Bugner (@RNBWCV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNBWCV\/status\/1916838588173729846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Giants<\/a>&#8216; 2025 draft class rate among the rest of the NFL? In a recent scorecard culling grades from many of the top NFL draft analysts, only the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" data-autotag=\"04de4087-8f54-4765-a468-9b4c74f7fb14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New England Patriots<\/a> rated higher.<\/p>\n<p>Giants general manager Joe Schoen landed perhaps the best player in the draft in Penn State edge rusher Abdul Carter with the third overall pick. It was a selection that Schoen said had the Giants&#8217; war room &#8220;high-fiving and hugging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schoen followed that pick up by trading back into the first round to finally get the Giants their franchise quarterback in Jaxson Dart of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/ole-miss-rebels\/3482\/\" data-autotag=\"f97e8d19-2252-4e14-bf32-a57aea852967\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ole Miss<\/a> at No. 25.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s got a lot of qualities you look for in a good quarterback,&#8221; Schoen said. &#8220;He&#8217;s tough, makes good decisions with the football, pushes the ball down the field, has athletic ability, played in a really tough conference, started there at USC as a young guy. But did a really good job throughout this process of our meetings, board work, workouts and the tape that we liked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From there, Schoen and his staff systematically addressed many of the other questions he faced heading into the draft. He added defensive and offensive line depth in Toledo&#8217;s Darius Alexander and Marcus Mbow of Purdue, respectively, and a rough-and-tumble running back in Cam Skattebo of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/arizona-state-sun-devils\/3463\/\" data-autotag=\"2e01ffe4-6aa4-4121-b8ae-0ae5f65cffc9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Schoen then took two players in the seventh round that could turn into lightning-in-a-bottle picks: Nebraska tight end Thomas Fidone and Oklahoma State cornerback Korie Black.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8 2025 NFL Draft Team Grades I\u00b4ve compiled 24 evaluations of the 2025 NFL draft and totaled the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[247,265,375,387,378,207,7,519,147,1575,1578,248,267,206,249,56,88,6,15,1640,245,537,208,1639,1644,530,984,9067,1576,9,266,376,377,381,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-17793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-state-sun-devils-football","12":"tag-devils","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-giants","16":"tag-lions","17":"tag-mississippi","18":"tag-mississippi-rebels-football","19":"tag-national","20":"tag-national-sports","21":"tag-new","22":"tag-new-england-patriots","23":"tag-new-york-giants","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-nfl-draft","27":"tag-nittany","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-positive","30":"tag-patriots","31":"tag-penn","32":"tag-penn-state-nittany-lions-football","33":"tag-positive","34":"tag-purdue","35":"tag-purdue-university","36":"tag-rebels","37":"tag-sports","38":"tag-sports-news","39":"tag-state","40":"tag-sun","41":"tag-university","42":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114438053760274920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}