The 2025 NFL Draft will get underway on April 24, 2025. As NFL organizations are eliminated from the playoffs, they’ll shift their attention to the draft.
Down the stretch, many fans start rooting for their favorite team to land the No. 1 overall pick so they can add a franchise-changing talent. Which team is currently on pace to pick No. 1 overall in 2025? And who are the top prospects in the upcoming class?
2025 NFL Draft Order In Week 16
Here is the current 2025 NFL Draft order following Week 16.
1. New York Giants, 2-13
2. New England Patriots, 3-12
3. Jacksonville Jaguars, 3-12
4. Tennessee Titans, 3-12
5. Cleveland Browns, 3-12
6. Las Vegas Raiders, 3-12
7. Carolina Panthers, 4-11
8. New York Jets, 4-11
9. Chicago Bears, 4-11
10. New Orleans Saints, 5-10
11. San Francisco 49ers, 6-9
12. Miami Dolphins, 7-8
13. Indianapolis Colts, 7-8
14. Cincinnati Bengals, 7-8
15. Dallas Cowboys, 7-8
16. Arizona Cardinals, 7-8
17. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 8-7
18. Seattle Seahawks, 8-7
19. Atlanta Falcons, 8-7
20. Los Angeles Chargers, 9-6
21. Houston Texans, 9-6
22. Denver Broncos, 9-6
23. Los Angeles Rams, 9-6
24. Washington Commanders, 10-5
25. Pittsburgh Steelers, 10-5
26. Baltimore Ravens, 10-5
27. Green Bay Packers, 11-4
28. Philadelphia Eagles, 12-3
29. Buffalo Bills, 12-3
30. Minnesota Vikings, 13-2
31. Detroit Lions, 13-2
32. Kansas City Chiefs, 14-1
Which Team Has the Best Chance To Land the Top Pick?
PFN’s Playoff Predictor not only projects the playoff picture and Super Bowl winner, it also predicts which team will land the No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming NFL Draft.
Factoring in each team’s record, metrics, and remaining schedule, our model currently gives the Giants the best odds to pick No. 1 overall in the 2025 NFL Draft. New York has remaining games against the Colts and Falcons (road).
Here are the teams with the best chance of securing the top pick:
- New York Giants, 42.5%
- New England Patriots, 15.8%
- Jacksonville Jaguars, 9.5%
- Cleveland Browns, 9.3%
- Las Vegas Raiders, 9.0%
- Tennessee Titans, 7.9%
- Carolina Panthers, 2.3%
- New York Jets, 1.8%
- Chicago Bears, 1.6%
Who Are the Top Prospects in the 2025 NFL Draft?
Let’s break down the top prospects in the 2025 NFL Draft. Click each player’s name for their in-depth scouting report from Pro Football Network’s NFL Draft Analyst Ian Cummings.
Travis Hunter, WR/CB, Colorado
A unicorn in every sense of the word and the face of college football, Travis Hunter‘s exploits at both wide receiver and cornerback have earned him a reputation as a potential all-time great.
As it stands, Hunter is currently Cummings’ WR1 and CB3 in the 2025 NFL Draft. In the NFL, Hunter might be better served focusing on one position rather than playing both ways to avoid spreading himself too thin. But it’s also true that we simply haven’t seen anything like him. He could be the rare, truly viable two-way player.
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At both positions, two traits stand out as central qualities to Hunter’s game: His hyper-elite athletic profile and his generational ball skills and catch-point instincts. Hunter simply moves differently. He brings awe-inspiring explosiveness, twitch, bend, and sink with his 6’1″ frame. He can use these dynamic traits either to gash coverages as a route runner, generate RAC yards in space, or match WRs and transition in zone coverage with effortless ease.
With his speed, agility, bend, separation ability, and infallible ball skills at the catch point, he can be a true three-level threat.
Shedeur Sanders, QB, Colorado
The QB with the most NFL-ready skill set is Shedeur Sanders. The Colorado passer is the most accurate and reliable quarterback eligible for the 2025 NFL Draft, with the ability to operate full-field reads and manipulate the middle of the field.
Sanders doesn’t have the athletic upside of others, but his movement is underrated.
Despite playing behind one of the worst offensive lines in college football, the Buffaloes QB’s pocket navigation is extremely impressive, setting him up to potentially start as a rookie.
Arm strength and accuracy are two of the most distinct selling points on Sanders’ tape. He generates easy velocity and has a degree of off-platform freedom. And while his mechanics are imperfect, he can find uncanny ways to hit targets with good placement and touch.
Going further, Sanders’ processing — a trait honed across years of starting experience at the collegiate level — is also a relative strength. Sanders can operate pre-snap, recognize defensive looks, adjust protections, and progress through reads post-snap — and he’s a measured decision-maker who protects the ball more often than not.
Cam Ward, QB, Miami (FL)
Cam Ward is establishing himself toward the top of the 2025 QB rankings with an impressive season in Miami.
The playmaking QB had already displayed his creation capacity and big-play potential, but with the ‘Canes, he’s improved his leadership, accuracy, and ball security.
Ward is undeniably talented, making some of the hardest throws look effortless. His elite composite arm talent allows him to layer passes into incredibly tight windows. He’s a danger as a passer from any platform, inside or outside of structure, and his arm elasticity is perfectly attuned to the modern game.
Ward is a high-level problem solver in chaotic situations, with the combined malleability, as an athlete and a thrower, and the improvisational feel to make something out of nothing. But often in the past, he relied on that creation capacity to a fault because of other deficiencies.
So far in 2024, however, he’s shown progression as a pocket operator and field general. Ward is operating more frequently pre-snap, and he’s playing with more decisiveness and efficiency on multiple levels.
Tetairoa McMillan, WR, Arizona
The race for WR1 in the 2025 NFL Draft cycle is close, but with his dominant skill set, Arizona’s Tetairoa McMillan might have what it takes to take home the crown.
At around 6’5″, 210 pounds, McMillan has logic-defying throttle control and flexibility, and he’s a stellar catch-point presence with his size and authority.
As a true freshman, McMillan caught 39 passes for 702 yards and eight scores. As a sophomore, he caught 90 passes for 1,402 yards and 10 touchdowns and was a second-team All-Pac-12 honoree. Thus far, in 2024, he’s been as dominant as we’ve seen him — a scary thought.
In Arizona’s very first game of the 2024 campaign against New Mexico, McMillan put together a 2016 Julio Jones-esque performance, racking up 10 catches for 304 yards and four touchdowns. That kind of domination is often reserved only for early-round talents.
That’s the kind of talent McMillan is: someone who can take over a game at a moment’s notice.
Ashton Jeanty, RB, Boise State
Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty has the baseline vision, explosiveness, and physicality that all offensive coordinators covet in their ball carriers. But the Boise State RB takes things three steps further with his extraordinary creative framework — a framework that’s assuredly translatable in the NFL.
As a creative threat, Jeanty possesses a devastating elusion fusion that combines crisp agility, lower-body flexibility, post-cut explosiveness, effortless contact balance, and a sixth-sense level of spatial understanding and feel. That fusion makes him almost 1-of-1.
As a natural runner, Jeanty inspires awe. And as a receiving threat, he has immense upside as well. Not only is he a natural catcher, but his skill set is extremely conducive to yards after catch, and he has the fluidity and energy in his motion to supplement a full route tree.
At his size, Jeanty will always have some slight limitations as a pass blocker, but even there, he gives great effort and has enough strength. Simply put, Jeanty is a complete three-down volume back with the devastating creative ability to give defenses nightmares for years on end.
