Draftwire

● By Jeff Risdon
Training camps for most teams begin in about a month, so it’s time for everybody to have the highest possible hopes. Of course, reality will intervene with a quickness for most teams, and only one team will be truly happy when the season is over. And it’ll probably be the Chiefs again. Sorry, rest of the NFL. Anyway, when the regular season is over, thoughts turn rapidly to free agency and the draft. And as far as the draft is concerned, every team has staffs of scouts working on next year’s prospects already. As we do the same at Touchdown Wire (though with far smaller professional stakes if we’re wrong), here’s how we see one version of the first round of the 2025 NFL draft.

Top Players Not Included

These players appear in the top 31 of our

Consensus Big Board

, but do not show up in this mock.