{"id":677114,"date":"2026-01-14T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/677114\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:41:13","slug":"browns-rookie-roster-somehow-not-ranked-first-among-2025-nfl-draft-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/677114\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns rookie roster somehow not ranked first among 2025 NFL draft classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Saints\u2019 rookie class is headlined by second-round quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4360689\/tyler-shough\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Shough<\/a>, who ranked 21st with a 49.2 QBR in nine starts. That\u2019s not quite \u201cthe Saints are set for years\u201d territory, but Shough has certainly earned the right to come back and try to improve as the starter. (Just remember that he\u2019s already 26 years old.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Obviously valuing quarterbacks highly, Barnwell noted the Browns two quarterbacks struggling:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Usually, the teams that lead in total points by rookies are going to be led by a quarterback. That\u2019s not the case here. Rookie quarterbacks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4427238\/dillon-gabriel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dillon Gabriel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4432762\/shedeur-sanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shedeur Sanders<\/a> both came out with negative total points and terrible QBRs (31.3 for Gabriel, 19.0 for Sanders). Those would have been the bottom two ratings in the league if Gabriel and Sanders had enough pass attempts to qualify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Saints first pick was left tackle Kelvin Banks Jr., followed by Shough and DT Vernon Broughton. Third-round pick S Jonas Sanker was a big part of the team\u2019s improvement on the defensive side of the ball. New Orleans full class can be seen here in a screenshot from ESPN\u2019s article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Do you think the Browns had a better overall draft class than the Saints? Should the quarterback position have extra value in these types of rankings?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saints\u2019 rookie class is headlined by second-round quarterback Tyler Shough, who ranked 21st with a 49.2 QBR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,4397,2337,7,6],"class_list":["post-677114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-browns","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-cleveland-browns-draft","tag-clevelandbrowns","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115894687436891296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677114","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=677114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}