Penn State QB Drew Allar Receives Jarring NFL Draft Outlook

Heading into the 2025 college football season, Penn State Nittany Lions quarterback Drew Allar was viewed as a potential No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.

Obviously, things took a different turn.

Allar played in just six games this year before suffering a season-ending ankle injury, and it's not like he had been performing all that well before the injury, either.

His draft stock plummeted, and many feel that the 21-year-old could potentially slip all the way to Day 3. In fact, most think it's likely.

However, ESPN's Field Yates recently released his NFL Draft rankings, which included ranking the top five at every position.

At quarterback, he had Allar placed fourth, right ahead of Clemson signal-caller Cade Klubnik.

Considering that Allar basically fell into the abyss a few months ago and saw his NFL future almost hanging on by a thread, this is a pretty fine ranking for the youngster.

Is it possible that Allar could move up into the second or third round this April?

Allar's case is definitely helped by the fact that this is a thin quarterback class, and it was made significantly weaker when Dante Moore decided to return to Oregon.

Indiana's Fernando Mendoza is the cream of the crop, and Alabama's Ty Simpson is now the consensus No. 2. Some also feel that Ole Miss star Trinidad Chambliss, ranked third on Yates' big board, could do his best Jaxson Dart impression and slide into the latter half of the first round.

Then there is Allar, the 6-foot-5, 235-pound specimen who has drawn comparisons to Buffalo Bills superstar Josh Allen due to his size, athleticism and arm strength.

Perhaps Allar's raw talent could entice a quarterback-needy team — like the New York Jets, for example — to select him in the second round?

Again, Allar's 2025 showing wasn't pretty.

During the six games in which he played, he threw for 1,100 yards, eight touchdowns and three interceptions while completing 64.8 percent of his passes. He also rushed for 172 yards and a score.

To be quite frank, Allar would have been better off heading into the NFL Draft after his junior campaign in 2024, when he totaled 3,327 yards, 24 touchdowns and eight picks while completing 66.5 percent of his throws and punching in six rushing scores.

All things considered, the possibility remains that a team may choose to bank on his talent in the early stages of the draft this spring.