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The NFL playoffs are still weeks away, but it's never too early to start thinking about draft season. Here's everything you need to know about the 2025 NFL Draft
The 2025 NFL Draft begins on Thursday, April 24 and goes through Saturday, April 26.
The 2025 NFL Draft will be held around Lambeau Field and its adjacent Titletown District in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
According to NFL.com:
"To be eligible for the draft, players must have been out of high school for at least three years and must have used up their college eligibility before the start of the next college football season. Underclassmen and players who have graduated before using all their college eligibility may request the league's approval to enter the draft early.
Players are draft-eligible only in the year after the end of their college eligibility.
Before the draft, NFL Player Personnel staff members confirm the eligibility of draft prospects; that means researching the college backgrounds of approximately 3,000 college players each year."
Every year, the team that finishes the regular season with the worst record receives the No. 1 overall pick, the team with the second-worst record, receives the No. 2 overall pick and so on.
As long as there are no trades (which there usually are), each of the seven rounds starts with the team that finished with the worst record and culminates with the Super Bowl champs.
There will be a total of 256 players selected in the 2025 NFL Draft.
The No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft has been traded 14 times, including twice in 1984.
1984: Patriots acquired it from Bengals (which got it from Bucs); drafted WR Irving Fryar
A team has drafted first overall in back-to-back years seven times. The Cleveland Browns have done it twice (1999-00 and 2017-18).
Connor Rogers has three QBs being selected in the first round of his most recent mock draft: