Another day, another NFL mock draft. Sometimes it’s another five or 10. If your team doesn’t pick in the top four or five of April’s NFL draft, the player your team might pick can vary widely – especially this year.
That’s where the charts, below, for all 32 teams and their potential first-round picks offer some clarity.
We’ve collected three mock drafts from USA TODAY, NFL.com, ESPN and Pro Football Focus, or PFF. That includes drafts published just days after the regular season, Super Bowl 59 and the NFL Combine. We chose drafts involving few, if any, trades to keep the picks as similar as possible.
A dozen mock drafts below still represent drop in the bucket in the sea of mock drafts, but their collective insights point to the players who might fill pressing roles for each team.
A handful of players dominate the top of the draft board. The farther down the board you go, you learn more about the positions these draft experts predict teams will try to upgrade.
Top draft prospects in the 2025 NFL draft
Unlike the 2024 draft class, there’s no consensus No. 1 pick this year, but a few trends stand out from the mock draft predictions so far:
◾ Cam Ward: The majority of mock drafts have the Miami (Florida) quarterback as the first pick of the 2025 draft, but one PFF draft dropped Ward as low as No. 6 to the Las Vegas Raiders.
◾ Travis Hunter: The Heisman Trophy winner, who might play cornerback and wide receiver in the NFL, hasn’t been lower than fourth. Most have him going to the Cleveland Browns with the second pick.
◾ Abdul Carter: A third of the mock drafts represented below have the Tennessee Titans using the first pick of the draft to select the Penn State edge rusher and Big Ten defensive player of the year.
The biggest needs for each of the teams below are based on an NFL.com analysis published just after the Super Bowl. Players heights and weights are those recorded at the NFL Combine.
Biggest needs: Quarterback, wide receiver, edge rusher, offensive tackle and safety.
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Biggest needs: Edge rusher, quarterback, offensive tackle, wide receiver and running back
Will the Browns still consider selecting Shedeur Sanders or Cam Ward with the second pick now that they traded with the Eagles for quarterback Kenny Pickett? We’ll see what our experts think in future mock drafts.
Biggest needs: Quarterback, offensive tackle and guard, cornerback and safety
Biggest needs: Offensive tackle, wide receiver, edge rusher, cornerback and interior offensive line
Biggest needs: Cornerback, safety, interior offensive line, wide receiver and quarterback
Biggest needs: Quarterback, wide receiver, running back, cornerback and defensive tackle
Biggest needs: Quarterback, defensive tackle, offensive tackle, safety and cornerback
The Jets may have addressed one of their biggest needs at quarterback this week by agreeing to a two-year deal with Justin Fields.
Biggest needs: Edge rusher, defensive tackle, wide receiver, center and quarterback
While the Panthers have areas to upgrade on offense, all but one mock draft see the Panthers selecting a defensive player with the eighth pick.
Biggest needs: Edge rusher, defensive tackle, wide receiver, center and quarterback
Biggest needs: Offensive guard and tackle, center, edge rusher and wide receiver
The Bears made two big moves to bolster their offensive line during the past few days. That hasn’t fixed everything on offense. USA TODAY’s most recent mock draft sees the Bears still picking an offensive player.
Biggest needs: Cornerback, defensive tackle, edge rusher, linebacker and offensive guard
Biggest needs: Running back, offensive guard, defensive tackle, cornerback and linebacker
Biggest needs: Safety, defensive tackle, offensive guard, linebacker and quarterback
Biggest needs: Interior offensive line, tight end, cornerback, linebacker and safety
Biggest needs: Edge rusher, safety, cornerback, center and wide receiver
Biggest needs: Edge rusher, defensive tackle, wide receiver, offensive guard and offensive tackle
Biggest needs: Wide receiver, tight end, offensive tackle, cornerback and offensive guard
Biggest needs: Offensive guard, quarterback, linebacker, defensive tackle and offensive tackle
The Seahawks may have addressed one of their biggest needs this week at quarterback by agreeing to a three-year, $100.5 million deal with Sam Darnold.
Biggest needs: Wide receiver, offensive guard, linebacker, edge rusher and offensive tackle
Biggest needs: Tight end, wide receiver, linebacker, safety and defensive tackle
Biggest needs: Quarterback, cornerback, running back, wide receiver and offensive tackle
Biggest needs: Edge rusher, defensive tackle, center, safety and tight end
Biggest needs: Cornerback, edge rusher, defensive tackle, center and wide receiver
Biggest needs: Cornerback, defensive tackle, running back, offensive guard and safety
Biggest needs: Wide receiver, offensive guard, defensive tackle, cornerback and offensive tackle
Biggest needs: Offensive tackle, wide receiver, cornerback, linebacker and tight end
Biggest needs: Offensive tackle, wide receiver, edge rusher, offensive guard and safety
Biggest needs: Edge rusher, cornerback, wide receiver, offensive guard and defensive tackle
Biggest needs: Edge rusher, offensive tackle, wide receiver, linebacker and cornerback
Biggest needs: Defensive tackle, wide receiver, edge rusher, cornerback and safety
The Bills may have bolstered their defense with a one-year, $12.6 million deal for Joey Bosa, but mock draft experts hadn’t seen linebacker as one of the team’s top needs. We’ll see in upcoming drafts if that might add anyone to the offensive column below.
Biggest needs: Defensive tackle, offensive guard, offensive tackle, wide receiver and edge rusher
Biggest needs: Edge rusher, wide receiver, linebacker, offensive guard and kicker
