The 2025 NFL Draft is nearly here. After months of speculation, Cam Ward, Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders will finally land with new teams.
The Tennessee Titans hold the No. 1 pick and will kick things off. After that, the Cleveland Browns and New York Giants round out the top three. All three teams may already know which player they’ll take when they’re on the clock. After that, the draft really opens up.
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Before people start speculating about Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty’s landing spot, the Titans need to make their selection. When will that happen? And what city is hosting the event?
Here’s everything you need to know about the 2025 NFL Draft.
The first round of the 2025 NFL Draft will begin at 8 p.m. ET Thursday, April 24. The Titans hold the first pick in the draft and can take up to 10 minutes to make their selection. Teams can submit their picks at any time once they are on the clock, but tend to let the clock run down for various reasons, including fielding trade calls or getting more TV time on broadcasts.
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The second and third rounds of the 2025 NFL Draft will take place Friday, April 25 at 7 p.m. ET. Teams get seven minutes to pick in the second round and five minutes to submit a pick in the third round. The fourth through seventh rounds of the 2025 NFL Draft will take place Saturday, April 26 at 12 p.m. ET. Teams will have five minutes to submit picks in the fourth through the sixth round of the draft. Teams get just four minutes to make a pick in the seventh and final round of the draft.
Once the 257th pick is made, the 2025 NFL Draft will officially end.
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The 2025 NFL Draft will be hosted in Green Bay, Wisconsin. For decades, the NFL Draft was hosted in New York. But in 2015, the NFL decided to shift the event to different host cities. A number of places have hosted the NFL Draft since then, including Chicago, Las Vegas and Kansas City. Detroit hosted the NFL Draft last season.
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Though the 2025 NFL Draft hasn’t started yet, the NFL has already announced where the 2026 NFL Draft will take place. Pittsburgh has already been chosen to host the 2026 NFL Draft next April.
You can watch Yahoo Sports’ NFL Draft Live show starting at 8 p.m. ET Thursday for the first round, and 7 p.m. ET Friday for the second and third rounds. Host Jason Fitz will be joined by “Football 301’s” Nate Tice, Charles McDonald and Matt Harmon in-studio for pick-by-pick analysis, with senior NFL reporters Charles Robinson and Jori Epstein making appearances.
The 2025 NFL Draft will air on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and the NFL Network. Each network will host their own NFL Draft shows, with different analysts breaking down all the action.
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ESPN and ABC — which are both owned by Disney — will have two separate broadcasts during the draft. The ESPN broadcast will focus on “the specific NFL team and the draftee’s on-field performance,” per a release from the network. The ABC broadcast will “emphasize storytelling and the draftee’s road to the NFL Draft.”
Mike Greenberg will host ESPN’s broadcast. He’ll be joined by Mel Kiper Jr., Booger McFarland, Louis Riddick, Molly McGrath and Adam Schefter.
ESPN’s broadcast Thursday will begin at 8 p.m. ET. ESPN2 will host a live broadcast of Friday’s rounds starting at 7 p.m. ET. Due to the NBA playoffs. Saturday’s broadcast will begin at 12 p.m. ET.
Rece Davis will host ABC’s coverage. He’ll be joined by Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Nick Saban, Field Yates, Laura Rutledge and Pete Thamel.
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ABC’s live broadcasts will begin at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, 7 p.m. ET on Friday and 12 p.m. ET on Saturday.
Rich Eisen will get hosting duties over at NFL Network. He’ll be joined by Daniel Jeremiah, Charles Davis and Joel Klatt on the main desk. Kurt Warner and Ian Rapoport will also provide analysis and Jamie Erdahl will be on the stage.
NFL Network will carry the event at its standard times. The first-round broadcast Thursday will air at 8 p.m. ET. Friday’s show will start at 7 p.m. ET, and Saturday’s coverage will begin at 12 p.m. ET.
Here’s how the first round will stack up Thursday evening:
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Yahoo Sports’ draft experts Nate Tice and Charles McDonald released a number of mock drafts leading up to the 2025 NFL Draft. Monday’s mock draft featured some expected picks, like Cam Ward to the Tennessee Titans.
It also featured more recent surprises, like the Jacksonville Jaguars taking Jeanty at No. 5 overall. As for Sanders, well, he actually fell out of the first round in Tice and McDonald’s latest mock draft.
If you want to know who Tice and McDonald believe are the best players available in the 2025 NFL Draft, check out Yahoo Sports’ big board.
At least 16 players are expected to attend the 2025 NFL Draft in person in Green Bay. That list includes the following players:
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- Alabama offensive lineman Tyler Booker
- Alabama linebacker Jihaad Campbell
- LSU offensive lineman Will Campbell
- Penn State edge rusher Abdul Carter
- Texas wideout Matthew Golden
- Michigan defensive lineman Mason Graham
- Kentucky cornerback Maxwell Hairston
- Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter
- Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty
- Michigan cornerback Will Johnson
- Arizona wideout Tetairoa McMillan
- Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe
- Ohio State offensive lineman Josh Simmons
- Georgia safety Malaki Starks
- Texas A&M edge rusher Shemar Stewart
- Miami quarterback Cam Ward
With the draft in Green Bay, a number of Packers greats will appear on the first night of the event. Mason Crosby, Ahman Green, James Jones, Clay Matthews and Jordy Nelson are among the names of Packers greats who will open the event with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday.
Jaguars defensive end Arik Armstead, who was named the 2024 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, will announce the Jaguars’ first-round pick Thursday night.
A handful of current NFL stars will announce picks on the second night of the draft. That list includes Terrion Arnold, Chuba Hubbard, Alec Ingold, Ryan Ramczyk and Jonathan Taylor.
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Former NFL legends will also be in attendance to announce picks during the event. Lynn Swann and Joe Thomas are among the NFL Hall of Famers who will have that duty.
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