Nittany Lion Drew Allar "the sleeper" in On3's CFB quarterback draft

On3's Andy Staples and Ari Wesserman had their 2025 College Football Quarterback Fantasy Draft. Both get 10 picks each and of them, at least one quarterback must come from a G5 school (American Conference, Conference USA, Mid-American Conference, Mountain West Conference, and Sun Belt Conference).

Throughout the season, Staples and Wesserman get one point for every passing yard, one point for every rushing yard, six points for every passing touchdown, and six points for every rushing touchdown. So, production is the major factor in their draft decisions.

Wesserman took the first pick and went for numbers with Clemson's Cade Klubnik. Staples went with a high-risk selection due to health with Florida's DJ Lagway. Texas' Arch Manning was taken off the board next followed by LSU' Garrett Nussmeier. Wesserman took his health-risk pick in South Carolina's LaNorris Sellers in the third round, and Ohio State's Julian Sayin was the first Big Ten selection of this production draft with Staples' selection.

"I will take the guy who gets to throw to Jeremiah Smith and Carnell Tate," Staples said. ". . . Sayin is a bit of a risk. He is a first time starting quarterback. Any of these first time starting quarterbacks, you have to worry about the possibility they just get benched."

For Wesserman, though, it wasn't the first Big Ten player he thought would go first. After choosing Oklahoma's John Mateer and SMU's Kevin Jennings (Staples drafted Arizona State's Sam Leavitt and Oregon's Dante Moore in the midst), he hit his Big Ten pick.

"I'm going to go ahead and take the sleeper of the Big Ten. I'm going Drew Allar here," Wesserman said. ". . . You're adding a receiver into the mix for the first time for a quarterback [who] threw for 25 touchdowns each of the last two years, or 24 and 25; and he also rushed for 300 yards and five touchdowns a year ago . . . there's some games where Penn State's up 42 to 10 and people just forget about that.

"This is a tier one quarterback, this could['ve] [been] the first quarterback taken off the board . . . I know this might be a little bit of a tricky pick because of [the] running back duo, but [Allar] is going to put up numbers this year. I think people think he stinks for some reason. He does not stink, and I will gladly take him as the third quarterback off the board of the Big Ten."

Even with Nicholas Singleton and Kaytron Allen in the backfield taking rushing yards away from Allar, the Nittany Lion quarterback is far from a sleeper, even from a production standpoint.

"The most experienced quarterback on potentially the best team, the sleeper?" Staples joked.

Indiana's Fernando Mendoza was the follow up to the Allar selection. Wesserman then chose Utah's Devon Dampier, Washington's Demond Williams Jr., Michigan's Bryce Underwood, and Tulsa's Braylon Braxton. After Mendoza, Staples rounded out his team with Baylor's Sawyer Robertson, Duke's Dariah Mensah, Navy's Blake Horvath, and Villanova's Diego Pavia.