1010XL 2025 Draft Guide: Roundtable #3

Welcome to the third edition of our 2025 Draft Guide roundtable! All the football pundits at 1010XL/92.5 FM have gathered to preview the upcoming draft in April.

Today’s question: Which prospect do you hope the Jaguars draft in round one of the 2025 NFL Draft?

Dave Campo: Mason Graham at 6’ 3 1/2″ and 306 lbs is what I call a disrupter! His effort, quickness, athleticism, strength and hand quickness allow him to attack the line of scrimmage, separate and make plays. This allows him to overcome his weakness which is his arm length.

Hays Carlyon: Colorado CB/WR Travis Hunter. I doubt he falls to fifth overall, but he’s a no-brainer pick if he’s there. He seems like the safest pick to become an elite player in the league of all the prospects in this draft. Michigan DT Mason Graham would be a wonderful consolation prize if Hunter is gone.

Mike Dempsey: I hope the Jaguars are able to draft CB/WR Travis Hunter.  Many draft pundits have Hunter ranked as their #1 CB and their #1 WR. Regardless of which position he plays in the NFL (if not both, to some degree), Jacksonville would get a potential star at a premium position in today’s NFL.

Dylan Denmark: Mason Graham. It feels like Cam Ward, Abdul Carter and Travis Hunter will be gone before the fifth pick. After that, Mason Graham is the best available and then there is a drop after him.

Gus Logue: I hope the Jaguars walk away with Travis Hunter or Abdul Carter, à la Jalen Ramsey in 2016 or Josh Hines-Allen in 2019. More realistically, I hope the Jaguars draft Hunter or a trench player in the first round. I’m not particularly enthused by the idea of spending a top-five selection on WR Tet McMillan, TE Tyler Warren, RB Ashton Jeanty, CB Will Johnson, or any other non-lineman not named Travis. Jacksonville’s focus should be up front.

Hacker: Put me in the Mason Graham camp. Games are won on the line of scrimmage, and far too often as of late, that is exactly where the Jaguars have lost. Put Graham next to Travon Walker, Josh Hines-Allen, Maason Smith and the rest, and I’ll be a happy camper.

Mia O’Brien: I hope the Jaguars draft Michigan DT Mason Graham because it will represent a) a departure from Trent Baalke’s archaic measurement thresholds, and b) a solid “double off the wall.” The Jaguars have not had a ton of those in recent drafts. Graham, by all accounts, is just that: a damn-good football player, even if he doesn’t win the “first off the bus” award. He is a set-it-and-forget-it pro who would fill a hole the Jaguars have long tried to fill.

Trent Osborne: I hope the Jaguars trade back and draft Arizona WR Tetairoa McMillan. The mission statement of the new regime has been to “raise the floor” and more draft picks will do just that. As for T-Mac: the lack of elite talent Trevor Lawrence has had at pass-catcher since being drafted in 2021 is staggering, and Brian Thomas Jr. isn’t enough to elevate the receiver room by himself. A bordering-on-elite No. 2 option like McMillan should give Lawrence all he needs to be successful this season.

Tony Smith: My hopes for the Jaguars have changed since we began talking about the draft process a few months ago. I thought Travis Hunter was a pipedream, but two quarterbacks — and even some whispers of three — going in the top four picks has been picking up steam. You can count me as a proponent of a couple of things: 1) The Jaguars not picking in the top five again for the next century unless they trade into the top five after winning their fifth Super Bowl in a row, and 2) The Jaguars paying off their top five pick this year with one of the few elite prospects in this draft. I don’t think that list is long, but Hunter is at the top of it in my mind.

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