{"id":880086,"date":"2025-12-23T23:14:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/2026-nfl-mock-draft-college-football-playoff-quarterbacks-taken-with-nos-1-and-2-overall-after-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:14:42","slug":"2026-nfl-mock-draft-college-football-playoff-quarterbacks-taken-with-nos-1-and-2-overall-after-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/2026-nfl-mock-draft-college-football-playoff-quarterbacks-taken-with-nos-1-and-2-overall-after-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL mock draft: College Football Playoff quarterbacks taken with Nos. 1 and 2 overall after trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Football No team has traded up to No. 1 overall for a quarterback since the Rams in 2016<\/h2>\n
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Oregon’s<\/a> Dante Moore<\/a> and Indiana’s<\/a> Fernando Mendoza<\/a> have distinguished themselves as the draft’s top two quarterback prospects, so it will require one of the first two picks for a team to ensure the rights to one of those players. In this thought exercise, one team does, in fact, trade into position.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The idea of trading up to No. 1 overall for a quarterback seems like it would be a common occurrence, but it has not happened since the Rams moved up for California’s<\/a> Jared Goff. Ironically, Mendoza began his collegiate career at California and Moore was not much farther away at UCLA<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Who are the non-quarterback prospects expected to hear their names called first and how long will Notre Dame<\/a> running back Jeremiyah Love<\/a> have to wait? The answers to those questions and more in a fresh mock draft exercise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a reminder, there are four teams without a first-round pick: the Jaguars<\/a>, Falcons, Colts<\/a> and Packers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To set the stage, here are the current odds to be the No. 1 overall pick (via DraftKings Sportsbook<\/a><\/span>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Player<\/th>\nPosition<\/th>\nSchool<\/th>\nOdds<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Fernando Mendoza<\/td>\nQB<\/td>\nIndiana<\/td>\n\u2212200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dante Moore<\/td>\nQB<\/td>\nOregon<\/td>\n+275<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rueben Bain Jr.<\/td>\nEDGE<\/td>\nMiami (FL)<\/td>\n+750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arvell Reese<\/td>\nLB<\/td>\nOhio State<\/td>\n+1200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ty Simpson<\/td>\nQB<\/td>\nAlabama<\/td>\n+1800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Note: This is the current NFL Draft order after Week 16 (<\/em>via Tankathon<\/em><\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

The 2026\u00a0NFL Draft<\/a>\u00a0will take place from April 23-25 in\u00a0Pittsburgh<\/a>. More draft coverage can be found at CBSSports.com, including the weekly\u00a0mock drafts<\/a>\u00a0and a regularly available\u00a0<\/em>look at the eligible prospects<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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2026 NFL mock draft: College Football Playoff quarterbacks taken with Nos. 1 and 2 overall after trade No team has traded up to No. 1 overall for a quarterback since the Rams in 2016 Dec 22, 2025 at 11:30 pm ET \u2022 1 min read Getty Images Oregon’s Dante Moore and Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1850,3774,3790],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-880086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college","8":"category-draft","9":"category-football"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}