The countdown to the NFL 2025 draft moved from months to week and now at hours. Round 1 comments in Thorsday Night, ending all simulated drafts we have seen in recent months.
While reading its final drills before Thursday’s festivities, there may be one thing that stands out: each team still has its first round selection. The fact that no team has changed its first round selection in the NFL 2025 draft is history in itself. This is the closest to a draft in which a first round selection has not moved in the era of the common draft, which Begen Begen in 1967.
The 1993 NFL draft previously had the record of the closest amount of time for Draft day before a first round selection was exchanged. That year, Kansas City chiefs sent a first round selection to the San Francisco 49ers for Joe Montana five days before the draft. Then, the 2025 draft is the first one in which a first round selection was not negotiated before the day of the Draft in the era of the common draft.
That is a surprise taking into account the number of operations in recent drafts, especially in premium positions. In 2024, the Chicago Bears celebrated the general selection number 1 because the Carolina Panthers exchanged the selection to write Bryce Young at number 1 in 2023. The Houston Texans initially had an additional first round selection in the 2024 draft, obtaining that selection of the Cleveland Browns in the Desshaun Watson trade. As part of the Watson agreement, Houston also acquired the first -round selections of Cleveland in the drafts of 2022 and 2023. The Texans exchanged the first round of 2024 that obtained from the Browns to the Minnesota Vikings before the day of the Draft.
Some other notable exchanges prior to the draft that involved a first round selection in recent years include Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets (first round teams), Russell Wilson to Den Dentle Briercos) and 202 and Recedence2 and 20s2 and Recee. Matthew Stafford to Los Angeles Rams (Detroit Lions received first round selections in 2021 and 2022).
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Let’s take a look at other interesting facts and nuggets about the NFL 2025 draft.
- Cam Ward is expected to be the No. 1 General selection in the NFL 2025 draft, but nobody knows how many other quarterbacks will be selected in the first round. Last year, six QB were selected on day 1, drawing the record of the greatest amount in the era of the common draft. If Ward is the only first -round field marshal, it will mark the fifth time since 2000 that has happened.
- Like the quarterbacks, the open receptors were on demand in the first round of the NFL 2024 draft, so much so that it coincided with a record. Seven open receptors were selected, drawing the 2004 draft for most tasks in the first round of the era of the common draft. The Fox Sports NFL Draft draft, Rob Rank, has four open receptors (including Travis Hunter) that are tasks in the first round of its final Mock Draft.
- The Browns have the General Selection No. 2 in the NFL 2025 draft. Except for a surprise exchange (or two), this will mark the first time they made a selection in the first round since 2021, due to the commerce of Deshaun Watson mentioned above.
- The fact that there has been an exchange that involves a first round selection, but does not mean that there will be some on the night of the draft. There are bone of an average of 5.6 operations that involve first round selections per year since 2020, including Draft Day offers.
- It seems likely that at least two runners will be recruited in the first round on Thursday. Ashton Jeantty and Omarion Hampton have been first round selections in each simulated Fox Sports draft this week. However, that is very short for the most correct tasks in the first round in the era of the common draft. Eight runners were selected in the first round of the NFL Draft of 1971.
- It is likely that two closed wings will also be recruited in the first 2025 draft round, with Tyler Warren and Colston Loveland seen as the main talents in this year’s class. If a closed wing more joins them on Thursday, that would match the record of most closed wings selected in the first round in the era of the common draft. There have been four occasions of cars used in which three closed wings have collected the bone in the first round.
- Obtaining help along the offensive line also seems to be a popular tendency, but the record of the most o-linemen tasks does not seem in doubt. He has six offensive linens selected in the first round of his last simulated draft, which is below the 10 written in the first round in 1968.
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- The record of most defensive selected in the first round in the common era does not seem to break this year. That number is nine, which was established in 2014. Travis Hunter, Will Johnson, Jahdae Barron, Malaki Starks and Nick Emmanwori have been common accessories in the first round of most drills to this point.
- Michigan has the opportunity to make history of the program on Thursday night. It is projected that Johnson, Loveland, Mason Graham and Kenneth Grant are first round selections. If that is true, it would be the best first round option that Michigan has had in a draft in the history of the program. His record is currently in three, which was established in the drafts of 1995 and 2001.
- Ohio State could also do some history this weekend. The National Defensor Champions have the opportunity to break the record of most players selected in a draft in the common era. Georgia established the record in 2023 with 15 selected bulldogs. The Big Board consensus projects of the NFL 15 Buckeyes database will be draft selections in the NFL 2025 draft.
- Due to the expansion of the conference, the SEC record for most first round selections of a conference in a single draft will probably be threatened on Thursday night. The SEC had 15 first round selections in the 2020 draft. In its last simulated draft, Rank has 15 SEC players in the first round this year.
- Notre Dame could also threaten the USC record for most Draft selections never produced by a single program. Before the 2025 draft, the Trojans have had 523 players recruited for the 520 of the fight against the 520. The large projects of the Database Database of the NFL Mock NFL database that seven Notre Dame players will be selected in the 2025 NFL Draft draft draft.
- Do you ask when your team will be on the clock? Well, let’s take some things into account. The draft begins at 8 pm et, but there is generally a bomb and circumstances that are carried out when Roger Goodell goes to the stage to announce that the draft is open. Each team also has up to 10 minutes to make their first round selection. It also takes a couple of minutes to formally advertise after each team sends the name. Then, let’s take a look at what happened last year. General selection No. 1 was announced at 8:19 pm et. The 16th selection was announced at 10:04 pm et, marking the midpoint of the first round. The final selection of the first round was announced at 11:52 pm et.
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