Cam Ward – Episode #1 | NFL Pre-Draft 2025 | Kurt Warner Breaks Down the Game Tape

We're going to take a look at a game today of Cam Ward, and we're gonna look at 17 to 20 different pass plays within that game
All right, time to start diving into the draft quarterbacks for 2025, and today we're gonna take a look at kind of number one on everybody's board. We're gonna look at Cam. So here's how I like to break down these quarterbacks as we get ready for the draft, right? It's easy to pick your favorites and develop highlight tapes and do all of that, or somebody might not like them for some reason and put a lot of negative plays in there. So what I like to do is just go through games. And for Cam and Shedeur Sanders, they're kind of my top two guys, and the top two guys for most people, I'm gonna take a look at two different games—just kinda pick some games in the middle and watch a bunch of games. Picked a couple of games in the middle, you know, of the season where both guys, you know, play well, but it gives you an idea, in a sense, of who these guys are.

And so this week is gonna be about Cam. We'll take a look at a couple of his different games and we'll take a look at how he's starting to show himself. I just believe, through the course of games—I don't pick the worst game, I don't pick the best game—I kind of pick a couple of middle-of-the-road or average, normal games for guys because it tells you who they normally are. And that's what we're going to do. We're gonna take a look at a game today of Cam Ward, and we're gonna look at 17 to 20 different plays—pass plays within that game—and we'll start to get a sense of who these guys are. And then it comes down to everybody trying to figure out how that translates to the next level. Will he be the same player at the next level? Will he become better at the next level? Will he get rid of some of the things that he needs to work on at the next level? Those are all things projected forward. I'm not a draft guy, but I like to take a look at these guys ahead of time and just give people a sense of what I see when I watch these guys on tape.

So there's a look at game number one with Cam Ward, and you see a lot of really, really good things. You see the arm talent show up, you see the second-level throws showing up, you see the playmaking ability showing up. Those are all things that, to me again, put Cam Ward at the top of this group. He's got the ability to do all of those things that you need to do at the NFL level, right? Things to clean up: technique needs to be cleaned up. He spends a lot of time, you know, relying on that right arm to make plays for him—and he makes a lot of them—but you're not gonna make all of them that way. #camward #nfldraft #nfl