16 rounds with starting lineups of 1 Quarterback, 2 Running Backs, 3 Wide Receivers, 1 Tight End, 1 Flex Player, 1 Defense/Special Teams Unit and 1 Kicker. Participants were required to draft six reserve players. Four points are awarded for a passing touchdown and one point is awarded for each reception.
The draft provides a chance for about 250 of the nation's finest athletes to live out the dream they've been preparing for all their young lives: a chance to play in the NFL. Seven rounds of selections and an additional 32 compensatory picks awarded to select teams determine who has made the grade.
Payscales for the fifth round vary from $669,444 to $698,619. The wages for players chosen in the sixth round range from $642,353 to $662,972. Last but not least, seventh-round selections earn a paycheck between $628,873 and $638,424.
The first pick of the third round will sign a contract worth approximately $5.85 million and receive a signing bonus of approximately $1.26 million. The second pick of the round will receive a $5.83 million contract with a $1.245 million signing bonus.
Currently, each of the 32 clubs receives one pick in each of the seven rounds of the NFL Draft (the number of teams drafting has changed over time, and there have been as many as 30 rounds in a single draft). The order of selection is determined by the reverse order of finish in the previous season.
How is the NFL Draft order determined? The selection order is dictated by the reverse order of finish in the previous season. Each round starts with the team that finished with the worst record and ends with the Super Bowl champions, unless any trades have occurred.
Chicago owes its first-round selection in the 2025 draft to San Antonio as part of the 2021 DeMar DeRozan trade, but the pick is top-10 protected.
So pick 1 means you get the first choice of every player in the draft, pick 2 means you get the second pick etc. The order of the picks are awarded based on the reverse order of where you finished on the ladder, so if you finished 18th of the ladder you get pick 1, 17th gets pick 2 etc.
With unprotected picks the team who receives the pick is guaranteed to have the pick no matter where it falls, whereas a protected pick allows the team who trades a pick to retain it if it falls within a current range (such as being a top-5 pick or a draft lottery pick) with them often agreeing to give the team who ...
The order of selection is determined by the reverse order of finish in the previous season. Barring any trades between clubs, each round starts with the team that finished with the worst record and ends with the Super Bowl champions. Teams that didn't qualify for the playoffs are assigned draft slots 1-20.