The Ravens signed nine members of their draft class on Saturday’s first day of rookie minicamp, the team announced.
Offensive tackle Emery Jones Jr. (third round), inside linebacker Teddye Buchanan (fourth round), and offensive tackle Carson Vinson (fifth round) now are signed. Baltimore’s five sixth-round picks – cornerback Bilhal Kone, kicker Tyler Loop, wide receiver LaJohntay Wester, defensive tackle Aeneas Peebles and cornerback Robert Longerbeam — and the team’s final selection, seventh-round guard Garrett Dellinger, also are under contract.
Jones and Dellinger, both from LSU, will compete for roles on Baltimore’s offensive line, along with Vinson, the only HBCU player selected in this year’s NFL draft.
Loop was one of the top kickers in college football in Arizona and is the first kicker to be drafted in Ravens history. He is the likely replacement for Justin Tucker.
Wester will compete to be the Ravens’ top returner as a rookie.
Kone had three career interceptions at Western Michigan and made 70 tackles in 2024. Longerbeam had five career interceptions for Rutgers.
Peebles had three sacks and 31 tackles at Virginia Tech last season.
Two members of Baltimore’s 11-player draft class remain unsigned — first-round safety Malaki Starks (Georgia) and second-round edge rusher Mike Green (Marshall).
The Cowboys have signed seven of their nine draft picks, the team announced Friday.
Offensive guard Tyler Booker, the 12th overall pick, became the first-round selection to agree to his rookie deal. He will receive a four-year, $22.5 million deal with $13 million guaranteed.
“We were both on the same page,” Booker said Friday, via Todd Archer of ESPN. “We know that this rookie contract is just, Lord willing, the first of a couple that I have coming in front of me. I was just focused on getting to work. I wasn’t too worried about the little extremities. That’s some stuff for my agent to worry about, so I told her, ‘Let’s get this thing done. I’m ready to get to work.’”
The Cowboys also signed third-round cornerback Shavon Revel, fifth-round linebacker Shemar James, sixth-round offensive tackle Ajani Cornelius, seventh-round defensive tackle Jay Toia, seventh-round running back Phil Mafah and seventh-round defensive tackle Tommy Akingbesote.
Second-round defensive end Donovan Ezeiruaku and fifth-round running back Jaydon Blue are the Cowboys’ only remaining unsigned draft picks.
Not long after Boston College edge rusher Donovan Ezeiruaku found out he was heading to Dallas, his phone rang again. It was Micah Parsons calling, welcoming him to town.
“It’s going to be fun,” Ezeiruaku said, via Tommy Yarrish of the team website. “He reached out after the draft. He said ‘Let’s get to work,’ and I said, ‘Let’s do it.’
“I’m excited, having somebody of that caliber on the other side of the field. It’ll be very special to see.”
Ezeiruaku was drafted to replaced DeMarcus Lawrence, who, for 11 years, had a big presence on the Cowboys defensive line. Lawrence signed with the Seahawks in free agency and burned a bridge on his way out, with Lawrence and Parsons getting into a public tit for tat.
As much as Parsons wasn’t sad to see Lawrence go, he was as happy to see Ezeiruaku’s arrival in the second round.
Ezeiruaku made 16.5 sacks, 20.5 tackles for loss and three forced fumbles in his senior season and finished his four-year career with 30 sacks, 47 tackles for loss and eight forced fumbles.
“They’re getting somebody who is athletic off the edge but is a dawg,” Ezeiruaku said. “He’s going to stick his nose in there in the run game, and he’s going to get after the quarterback in the passing game. Hard-working dude, a great person off the field, that’s what the Dallas Cowboys are getting out of me.
“You can’t just be a one trick pony. I think that’s kind of what separates me and what separates good and great players. It’s very important to be versatile.”
Georgia State offensive lineman Ben Chukwuma, a native of Nigeria who moved to the U.S. at 17, did not begin playing football until 2020 when he showed up for an open tryout. Chukwuma knew nothing about American football.
Five years later, Chukwuma has the most guaranteed money of any undrafted free agent as the Bucs offered him $300,000 after the draft.
“My potentiality is what makes the NFL teams excited,” Chukwuma told Greg Auman of Fox Sports on Sunday. “They see with my little experience what am I able to do.”
He did not see any game action until 2023 before starting 11 games in 2024. He has played only 23 games in his career.
The 6-foot-6, 310-pounder is a project with potentially a big upside.
“He’s just a big piece of clay that you can make however you want,” former NFL coach Hue Jackson, now Georgia State’s offensive coordinator, told Auman. “Somebody can really pour the right things into him. His growth over the next several months [should be a lot]. He’ll be around NFL guys, and they’ll take him under their wings and let him be what he can be. He’s athletic. He’s long. He’s tough, and he loves football, and he’s going to work hard at it.”
College players who were previously in the transfer portal had a major impact on the 2025 NFL Draft. Take a look at some of the notable stats regarding where transfer players were selected and the path they took to the NFL draft.
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2 - Consecutive drafts where the top two selections were players who transferred while in college
Last year Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels were picked Nos. 1 and 2 by Chicago and Washington. This year Cam Ward and Travis Hunter were taken with the first two picks, making it the second year in a row that the first two selections were players who had transferred at least once during their college careers.
Williams famously transferred from Oklahoma to USC and Daniels went from Arizona State to LSU.
Ward, who was selected by the Tennessee Titans, began his career at Incarnate Word before transferring to Washington State and then to Miami. Everyone remembers when Hunter shocked the world by flipping from Florida State to Jackson State on National Signing Day in the 2022 class. He went from there to Colorado, where he ended up winning the Heisman Trophy this past season.
2 - Quarterbacks that did not transfer while in college
There were 13 quarterbacks picked in the NFL draft last week and 11 of those selected, including first-round picks Cam Ward and Jaxson Dart, had transferred at least once during their college careers.
The only two drafted quarterbacks who didn’t transfer while in college are Jalen Milroe from Alabama and Cam Miller from North Dakota State. Milroe was the fourth quarterback to get picked and went to Seattle in the third round. He signed with Alabama in the 2021 class as a top-100 prospect and started for the Crimson Tide the last two seasons.
Miller, who was picked by the Las Vegas Raiders in the sixth round, signed with North Dakota State in the 2020 recruiting class. He won two FCS national championships and finished his career with North Dakota State records for total offensive yards, completion percentage, completions and passing yards.
31 - Players picked in the first three rounds transferred at least once in college
Cam Ward, Travis Hunter, Walter Nolen, Derrick Harmon, Matthew Golden, Jaxson Dart and Josh Simmons were the seven players picked in the first round of the draft who transferred at least once during their college careers.
There were 24 more of them picked before the end of round three. That equates to just over 30-percent of the first three rounds of the NFL draft.
13 - Transfers picked in the first three rounds that started their careers at non-Power Four programs
A growing number of players from lower levels of college football are transferring up to Power Four programs and many of them are able to develop into high draft picks. There were 13 players picked in the first three rounds of the draft who began their careers outside of the Power Four conferences.
Cam Ward (Incarnate Word), Travis Hunter (Jackson State), and Josh Simmons (San Diego State) were each first-round picks despite not starting their careers at major football schools.
The second round featured former Eastern Kentucky receiver Jayden Higgins who finished his college career at Iowa State, Ole Miss receiver Tre Harris who first suited up for Louisiana Tech and defensive back Trey Amos who began his career at Louisiana before transferring to Alabama and then Ole Miss.
There were seven players picked in the third round who started their careers at non-Power Four programs. Washington State receiver Kyle Williams (UNLV), Arkansas receiver Isaac TeSlaa (Hillsdale), Cal defensive back Nohl Williams (UNLV), Tulane defensive back Caleb Ransaw (Troy), Michigan edge defender Josaiah Stewart (Coastal Carolina), Western Kentucky defensive back Upton Stout (North Texas) and Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel, who started his career at UCF when the Knights were still playing in the AAC.
5 - Players who transferred at least twice while in college picked in the first three rounds
Speaking of Gabriel, the former Oregon, Oklahoma, UCLA (briefly) and UCF quarterback is one of five players picked in the first three rounds of the draft who transferred multiple times during their college careers.
Of course, No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward transferred twice before he left the college ranks, starting his career at Incarnate Word and then transferring to Washington State and then to Miami. Former Louisville quarterback Tyler Shough, who was selected in the second round by New Orleans, began his career at Oregon before transferring to Texas Tech and then to Louisville.
Also in the second round, Cincinnati picked linebacker Demetrius Knight, who signed with Georgia Tech in the 2019 class and then transferred to Charlotte before finishing his career at South Carolina. Defensive back Trey Amos, who was selected by Washington in the second round, was first playing for Louisiana before he transferred to Alabama and then Ole Miss.
1 - Offensive lineman picked in the first three rounds that transferred during their college career
There were 19 offensive linemen picked in the first three rounds of the NFL draft and only one of them transferred after beginning career at an FBS school. Ohio State’s Josh Simmons was picked in the first round by the Kansas City Chiefs. Simmons signed with San Diego State in the 2021 recruiting class and redshirted his first year with the Aztecs. He started every game during his second season and then transferred to Ohio State prior to the start of the 2023 season.
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The first round of the draft unfolded ideally for the Colts, who had tight end Tyler Warren fall into their lap at No. 14 overall.
Warren excelled at Penn State, playing a variety of roles on the team’s offense. He won the John Mackey award as the nation’s best tight end in 2024, also helping the program reach the College Football Playoff.
On Sunday, Indianapolis head coach Shane Steichen called Warren “a guy who can do it all.”
“He can catch. He can run. He can throw. I mean … we might play him on defense. I don’t know,” Steichen said in his press conference, via transcript from the team. “The thing that is crazy, they talk about [John] Riggins, him growing up watching him — I mean, that’s how he freaking plays. When he’s got the ball in his hands, this guy is physical, run after catch, he’ll lay the wood on you, hurdle you. It’s going to bring a lot to our football team for sure.”
Steichen added that Warren’s presence will have a “huge” impact on the quarterback.
“You’ve got a target that big with that size. He plays above the rim, you know what I mean? Sometimes, when guys are on him, he’s still open,” Steichen said. “I know with the Chargers — just an example, I’m not saying we’re here yet — we had an [Antonio] Gates rule. Like, ‘Hey, you’ve got him 1-on-1? You throw him the dang ball.’
“Obviously, it will be exciting to see when he gets in here and see him compete. It will be fun.”
The Colts envision Warren being someone they can move all over formations.
“If he’s in-line, he can block,” Steichen said. “Like I said, he can do it all. You can split him out wide. They threw him middle screens, you know? Just get the ball in his hands however you can.”
In 2024 at Penn State, Warren caught 104 passes for 1,233 yards with eight touchdowns and rushed 26 times for 218 yards with four TDs.
Quarterback Quinn Ewers had the longest wait to hear his name called of anyone at his position during the 2025 draft, but was finally selected by Miami at No. 231 in the seventh round.
After making the pick, General Manager Chris Grier told reporters that Ewers “obviously had a very good college career.”
“Mike [McDaniel] and I, we met him the year before at the Texas workout and we spent some time,” Grier said in his press conference, via transcript from the team. “We talked to coach [Steve] Sarkisian about him, and ‘Sark’ really likes and was high [on him] and was talking about him playing through the injuries this year, which affected his play a little bit. But talked about his toughness, his mental toughness, the pushing through with the injury, the expectations, all the pressure with [Arch] Manning there coming in, and so he loved his competitiveness and how he plays and how his teammates respond to him.
“So, he was someone that we always had an eye on looking at, and the opportunity at that point in the draft just made sense for us to pull the pick.”
McDaniel noted that a plus of drafting Ewers is that some of Sarkisian’s offensive concepts are similar to what the Dolphins run.
“That is beneficial because you can evaluate a lot of nuances that you typically have to forecast,” McDaniel said. “I think one of the things that gives him an advantage as a rookie just getting started is that overlap. I think the way that he orchestrates the offense from the motion timing and really anticipating things, there’s a fit there, so we’re excited to get him in the program and start working.”
Ewers threw for 3,472 yards with 31 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in his final season at Texas in 2024.
The mystery has been solved.
Well, one of them at least.
The Falcons have announced that the prank call placed during the second night of the draft traces to defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich. In a statement, the Falcons said that Ulbrich’s 21-year-old son, Jax, “unintentionally came across the draft contact phone number” for Sanders. It was on an “open iPad” while Jax Ulbrich was visiting his parents’ home. (Microsoft might not be thrilled about Apple getting some product-placement publicity; the league gets millions per year to use and promote the Surface.)
He wrote the number down with the plan to use it for a prank call. Per the Falcons, Jeff Ulbrich was not aware of the situation until after the call happened.
“The Atlanta Falcons do not condone this behavior and send our sincere apologies to Shedeur Sanders and his family,” the statement reads, adding that the team has reached out to apologize to Sanders directly. The team also facilitated an apology from Jax Ulbrich to Shedeur.
“We have also been in contact with the NFL and will continue to cooperate fully with any inquiries we may receive from the NFL league office,” the statement explains.
The Falcons are imposing no discipline on Jeff Ulbrich, and the statement does not apply to any other prank calls made to prospects during the draft. A prank call was made to new Colts tight end Tyler Warren. Another player was called after he was drafted and told he’d been traded.
Whether the NFL takes any action against the team or Jeff Ulbrich remains to be seen. The Falcons said they will be “thoroughly reviewing all protocols, and updating if necessary, to help prevent an incident like this from happening again.”
Shedeur Sanders apparently isn’t the only prospect who got punked during the draft.
Via Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports, tight end Tyler Warren received a prank call when the Jets were on the clock with the seventh overall pick, on Thursday night. (Warren was eventually picked by the Colts, at No. 14.)
Per the report, Warren’s camp believes that the call came from the same area code or number that was used to prank-call Sanders the next day.
As PFT first reported earlier today, the NFL is looking into the prank call made to Shedeur Sanders. If these phones are sent straight to the players by the league and if only the league and the teams have the numbers, someone is doing something that makes the NFL look very bad.
The 2025 NFL Draft has come to a close with the Patriots’ pick at No. 257.
New England selected defensive back Kobee Minor out of Memphis with the last pick of the seventh round.
Minor played three seasons at Texas Tech before transferring to Indiana in 2023 and then Memphis in 2024. He registered six passes defensed, 2.0 sacks, and two passes defensed in his final collegiate season.
The Patriots also selected long snapper Julian Ashby out of Vanderbilt at No. 251 toward the end of the seventh round. He was the first long snapper drafted since 2021.
