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● By Blake Brockermeyer
Everything we thought about the 2025 NFL Draft just may come true. It's a bad year at quarterback, with no sure answers. It's a banner year for defensive players. So, two polar opposites of the 2024 draft. Another major difference? While the 2024 NFL Draft tied a record with seven first-round picks at receiver, we currently project only three such players in 2025, a combination of a down year at the position, plus the simple fact that so many teams have taken receivers early in recent years. If my mock draft holds, it'd be the fewest receivers taken since 2019. And just like we have our first receiver going off the board at No. 22 (warning: you may scratch your head at the fit), that 2019 draft didn't see a wideout get taken until No. 25.

Top Players Not Included

These players appear in the top 32 of our

Consensus Big Board

, but do not show up in this mock.