The Kansas City Chiefs may have come up short in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday night, but at least they won't be picking last in the first round of the 2025 NFL draft.
Sometimes you have to celebrate the small victories.
With the Philadelphia Eagles' triumph at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, the full first-round order is set. Philadelphia will bring the draft's first night to a close on April 24.
The order will undoubtedly undergo a few changes between now and then. For now, here's what the first 32 selections look like.
2025 NFL Draft Order—First Round
- Tennessee Titans
- Cleveland Browns
- New York Giants
- New England Patriots
- Jacksonville Jaguars
- Las Vegas Raiders
- New York Jets
- Carolina Panthers
- New Orleans Saints
- Chicago Bears
- San Francisco 49ers
- Dallas Cowboys
- Miami Dolphins
- Indianapolis Colts
- Atlanta Falcons
- Arizona Cardinals
- Cincinnati Bengals
- Seattle Seahawks
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Denver Broncos
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- Los Angeles Chargers
- Green Bay Packers
- Minnesota Vikings
- Houston Texans
- Los Angeles Rams
- Baltimore Ravens
- Detroit Lions
- Washington Commanders
- Buffalo Bills
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Philadelphia Eagles
Last year, there was a clear standout for the Chicago Bears to take with the first overall pick. Maybe history will prove the Bears wrong for picking Caleb Williams over Jayden Daniels, but a lot of the pre-draft discourse was dedicated to talking ourselves out of the thing we all knew was going to happen.
Now, it's far more uncertain which quarterback the Tennessee Titans prefer or whether picking a QB is even their best course of action.
Miami's Cam Ward and Colorado's Shedeur Sanders are in a tier amongst themselves from this year's quarterback class, yet neither is a true can't-miss prospect. They rank eighth and 16th respectively on Bleacher Report's big board.
The Titans, Cleveland Browns and New York Giants all need quarterbacks.
For Tennessee, the Will Levis experiment should be over after he struggled mightily in his second season. Cleveland needs a new long-term solution since Deshaun Watson's second Achilles tear effectively cements his overall decline. And New York cut Daniel Jones midway through this season and doesn't have a single quarterback signed for 2025.
As badly as any of the three need to improve under center, they could determine that going with the best player available is a better strategy than focusing solely on a QB.
Another reason to adopt that approach is that this isn't shaping up to be a great draft class as a whole.
Only six players received a grade of 8.5 or higher, which is reserved for first-round prospects, on the B/R big board: Colorado CB/WR Travis Hunter, Penn State edge-rusher Abdul Carter, Michigan defensive lineman Mason Graham, Arizona wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan, Georgia safety Malaki Starks and Michigan cornerback Will Johnson.
As a comparison, 11 players were graded at 8.5 or better on B/R's final big board in 2024, and eight met that threshold in 2023.
Come April, the draft could open in the most anticlimactic way possible. The Titans take Ward or Sanders and the Browns follow by picking the other one.
But there's going to be a lot of debate and a lot of movement across draft boards before we get there.
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