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    Current 2025 NFL Draft Order: Everything To Know About the Upcoming NFL Draft

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    Here's everything you need to know about the 2025 NFL Draft, including the current draft order, dates, location, top prospects, and more.

    The 2024 NFL regular season is almost over, which means all eyes are on the order of the upcoming NFL Draft. Here’s everything you need to know about the 2025 NFL Draft, including the current draft order, dates, location, top prospects, and more.

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    Round 1

    Here is the current 2025 NFL Draft order entering the Sunday slate in Week 18:

    1. Cleveland Browns, 3-14
    2. New England Patriots, 3-13
    3. Tennessee Titans, 3-13
    4. New York Giants, 3-13
    5. Jacksonville Jaguars, 4-12
    6. Carolina Panthers, 4-12
    7. New York Jets, 4-12
    8. Las Vegas Raiders, 4-12
    9. Chicago Bears, 4-12
    10. New Orleans Saints, 5-11
    11. San Francisco 49ers, 6-10
    12. Indianapolis Colts, 7-9
    13. Arizona Cardinals, 7-9
    14. Dallas Cowboys, 7-9
    15. Miami Dolphins, 8-8
    16. Atlanta Falcons, 8-8
    17. Cincinnati Bengals, 9-8
    18. Houston Texans, 9-7
    19. Denver Broncos, 9-7
    20. Seattle Seahawks, 9-7
    21. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 9-7
    22. Pittsburgh Steelers, 10-7
    23. Los Angeles Chargers, 10-6
    24. Los Angeles Rams, 10-6
    25. Washington Commanders, 11-5
    26. Green Bay Packers, 11-5
    27. Baltimore Ravens, 12-5
    28. Philadelphia Eagles, 13-3
    29. Buffalo Bills, 13-3
    30. Minnesota Vikings, 14-2
    31. Detroit Lions, 14-2
    32. Kansas City Chiefs, 15-1

    When and Where Is the 2025 NFL Draft?

    • Where: The 2025 NFL Draft will be held around Lambeau Field and the Titletown campus in Green Bay, Wisconsin — home of the Green Bay Packers.
    • Draft Dates: Thursday, April 24 (Round 1) | Friday, April 25 (Rounds 2-3) | Sunday, April 26 (Rounds 4-7)
    • Start Time: 8 p.m. ET (Thursday) | 7 p.m. ET (Friday) | Noon ET (Sunday)
    • TV Channels: ABC, ESPN, NFL Network
    • Live Stream: ESPN and NFL Apps

    The first day of the 2025 NFL Draft will take place on April 24. Then, Rounds 2 and 3 will take place on April 25, and the draft will finish out with Rounds 4-7 on April 26.

    Top Prospects in the 2025 NFL Draft

    Let’s break down some of the top players in the 2025 NFL Draft, according to Pro Football Network’s 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 has established himself as one of the 2025 QBs with an impressive season at 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.

    In 2024, however, he showed 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.

    Given how NFL teams value running backs these days, it remains to be seen how high he will get picked. However, he’s certainly one of the more talented players in the class.

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