The 2025 NFL Draft will be held Thursday through Saturday in the parking lots surrounding Lambeau Field in Green Bay. The first round starts Thursday at 7 p.m. CT with the Tennessee Titans set to hit the clock with the No. 1 overall pick. The Bears currently hold the No. 10 overall pick. Follow live updates below.
The Browns are trading the No. 2 pick to the Jaguars for the No. 5 pick and are expected to take Colorado receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter. The Browns will get the Jaguars’ second-rounder, fourth-rounder and next year’s first-rounder. Picking fifth, the Browns will become a wild-card as the Bears wait to see who falls to No. 10 overall.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The NFL Draft is open, and the Titans got things started by drafting University of Miami quarterback Cam Ward with the first pick.
The Titans have been searching for a franchise quarterback for more than two decades, and while Ward is the best at his position in this class, the Bears were fortunate to be searching for a quarterback last year when the draft was loaded with them. They took Caleb Williams, kicking off a run of six quarterbacks in the first 12 picks.
Ward was an All-American at Miami last season and completed 67.2% of his passes, piled up 4,313 yards and threw 39 touchdown passes against seven interceptions.
He began his college career at University of the Incarnate Word, then transferred to Washington State for two seasons before finishing up at Miami.
With Ward off the board, the next quarterback to likely will be Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, son of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, though some analysts have suggested he might slip to the second round.
The next three are Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart, Louisville’s Tyler Shough and Alabama’s Jalen Milroe.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — As the NFL Draft got started, commissioner Roger Goodell came on stage with several former Packers to fire up the crowd.
Clay Matthews did just that. After warning Goodell that he was about to go off script, Matthews claimed he had just spoken with Donald Trump and had a message to deliver.
“My fellow Americans …” Matthews began, “the Bears still suck.”
The crowd, estimated by the NFL at more than 125,000 on the premises of Lambeau Field, roared with approval.
The Bears won the last time they were here, beating the Packers 24-22 in January, but finished 5-12 and will draft 10th. The Packers went 11-6 and made the playoffs and are slotted at No. 23 tonight.
Hall of Famer Steve McMichael was “an extraordinary guy,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Thursday, one day after McMichael’s death at age 67.
McMichael, the defensive lineman inducted into the Hall of Fame in August, died four years after being diagnosed with ALS.
“I enjoyed every moment I was with him,” Goodell said in a pre-draft interview with ESPN. “I’m really sorry to his family. We’re all gonna miss him, and I know they are the most. He left his mark on football in general — not just the Bears, but football …
“I’m glad he got to be in the Hall of Fame while he was alive to see that. I know it was an important moment for him, and it should be.”