ESPN.com · Nov 8, 2025
Poll: Mendoza top vote-getter as QB1 for upcoming NFL draft
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The volatility and unpredictability of the 2025 college football season has rippled through the group of draft-eligible quarterbacks.
ESPN re-polled 25 NFL scouts and executives about who will be the first quarterback taken in the upcoming NFL draft, with the results drastically different from six weeks ago.
In the latest poll, Indiana's Fernando Mendoza was the top vote-getter with 13 votes, putting him ahead of Oregon's Dante Moore (6) and Alabama's Ty Simpson (3). Notably, none of those quarterbacks received a single vote in the first poll, and all have eligibility remaining.
