Potential Steelers QB Goal Jaxson Dart Backs Out Of Attending NFL Draft

After initially accepting the NFL’s invitation, Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart is not going to attend the 2025 NFL Draft in Inexperienced Bay subsequent Thursday. The league despatched out a revised checklist of attendees with Dart’s identify faraway from the checklist.

Georgia EDGE Mykel Williams additionally gained’t be making the journey. Kentucky CB Maxwell Hairston has acquired an invitation and can attend after being left off the NFL’s preliminary checklist.

The one quarterbacks who will attend the draft are Miami (FL)’s Cam Ward and Alabama’s Jalen Milroe. Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders had beforehand mentioned he wouldn’t attend the occasion even when invited, selecting to remain at residence with family and friends.

It’s not clear why Dart is pulling out of the occasion. Presumably as a result of a family-related motive or private resolution to observe the draft at residence. Nevertheless, it may be considered as an indication he’s much less more likely to be a first-round decide than initially thought, and staying residence avoids the awkwardness of an extended night time within the NFL’s inexperienced room.

Past Ward going No. 1 total to the Tennessee Titans, there’s loads of uncertainty about the place the remainder of the highest quarterbacks will land. Sanders was as soon as considered as a top-five lock however could slip within the first spherical, probably to Pittsburgh at No. 21. Jaxson Dart, Jalen Milroe, and Louisville’s Tyler Shough even have questions on their touchdown spot.

Pittsburgh has taken a have a look at practically all the highest quarterbacks of the 2025 NFL Draft Class aside from Ward, the consensus high decide. Sanders, Dart, Shough, and Syracuse’s Kyle McCord got here in for pre-draft visits whereas Mike Tomlin attended the Professional Days of Texas’ Quinn Ewers, Ohio State’s Will Howard, and Milroe.

The Steelers appear more likely to come away from the draft with a quarterback. However guessing who and what spherical that may happen are rather more troublesome questions.