Buying, selling latest 2025 NFL QB rumors: Aaron Rodgers wants to join Vikings? Kirk Cousins bound for Browns?

We sort through some of the big-name storylines this offseason

Quarterbacks often make the NFL go 'round. And this offseason has been no exception. Sam Darnold cashed in with one of the top deals of free agency, netting $100 million from the Seattle Seahawks. Geno Smith moved to the Las Vegas Raiders to give Sin City some added spice. And Aaron Rodgers has drawn plenty of headlines at 41, despite approaching April without a definitive plan for the 2025 season.

The 2025 NFL Draft is now around the corner, but even with most teams tentatively settled at the quarterback spot, the position remains a catalyst of conversation. Will Cam Ward go No. 1 overall? Will Shedeur Sanders come off the board immediately afterward? And what about Rodgers? Will he really wait until the summer, or even later, to make a decision on what would be his 21st NFL campaign? Plenty of lineup-shaking moves could await both on the rookie and veteran fronts.

With that in mind, we decided to put on our thinking cap and reassess five of the juiciest quarterback storylines, projecting whether the latest rumors are more fact than fiction: