NFL Draft Prospect Evaluations: CFP + Bowl Games

First Draft

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Welcome back to "First Draft"! Hosted by Mike Greenberg, Mel Kiper Jr. and Field Yates, we're back to break down the most notable performances across the 2025 College Football Playoff and Bowl games. (0:00) Welcome to "First Draft" (1:26) Notre Dame vs Georgia postponed (2:45) Peach Bowl: Texas vs Arizona State (3:47) Quinn Ewers late-game herorics vs Sun Devils (10:26) The 3rd-best QB in the draft is..? (15:06) RB Cam Skattebo vs Texas (19:30) OSU WR Jeremiah Smith vs Oregon (22:16) Ashton Jeanty vs Penn State (26:50) Cam Ward & Shedeur Sanders' final games (35:26) Bowl Game Ballers: TE Harold Fannin Jr. (37:26) Penn State RB Kaytron Allen (39:17) Notre Dame S Xavier Watts (41:12) South Carolina State LB Aaron Smith (42:49) Syracuse QB Kyle McCord (46:48) Orange Crushers of the Week (51:58) See you next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.3	Brand new year, very same goal.
0:46.5	Get to April with bowl season in full swing.
0:48.9	Which draft prospects have shined the brightest?
0:53.2	Mel Kuiper and Field Yates have answers to those and all of your questions, your takes, and your draft dreams
0:55.4	as first draft starts right now.
1:00.5	Hi, everybody.
1:01.5	A very happy new year.
1:03.5	We hope you all had a terrific New Year's and New Year's Eve, and we are thrilled to be
1:07.7	back with First draft or with you for the moment once a week on Thursday afternoons,
1:12.6	but soon to be twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays starting January 13th on the NFL on ESPN YouTube channel
1:19.7	and wherever you get your podcasts.
1:21.8	They are the legends, Field Yates, and Mel Kuiper.
1:24.4	I am Greeny.
1:25.5	A couple of quick programming notes, Mel's big board available on ESPN.com updated every Friday.
1:31.5	Fields top 25 also available stacked with his mock draft 2.0.
1:36.4	And if you missed our breakdowns of Fields' first true mock draft, you can go back to NFL on YouTube, the YouTube channel, NFL on ESPN YouTube channel,
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