2025 NFL Draft order: Detroit Lions first-round pick officially set

With the Detroit Lions playoff run coming to an end, the team now knows where it will pick in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft.

The Detroit Lions 2024 season has come to a close and the Lions now hold the pick No. 28 in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Because there are still a variety of things that will take place over the offseason, the only picks we know for certain at this time are in the first round. As the offseason plays out, more picks will be awarded to teams via the NFL—i.e. compensatory picks, awarded picks based on minority hires, etc.—and we will learn all the Lions’ official picks in the coming months.

Lions estimated picks in each round

For now, here is where the Lions are slotted to pick, keeping in mind the pick numbers beyond No. 28 are just estimated placeholders:

• Round 1: No. 28
• Round 2: No. 60
• Round 4: No. TBD
• Round 6: No. TBD (From Buccaneers as part of Carlton Davis trade)
• Round 7: No. TBD (From Cowboys as part of trade up for Terrion Arnold)
• Round 7: No. TBD

Lions picks traded away

• Round 3: traded to Jets during 2024 draft — Giovanni Manu selection
• Round 5: traded to Browns for Za’Darius Smith
• Round 6: traded to Browns for Donovan Peoples-Jones

History of Pick No. 28

The Lions have held the No. 28 pick just once in their history, back in 2015 when they selected Duke guard Laken Tomlinson. After playing just two seasons with the Lions, Tomlinson was traded to the San Francisco 49ers for a fifth-round pick. Tomlinson spent 2024 with the Seahawks and has played in 163 games, starting 155 of them.

Here are the last players selected at pick No. 28 over the past decade:

• 2024: Kansas City Chiefs, WR Xavier Worthy
• 2023: Bengals, EDGE Myles Murphy
• 2022: Packers, DT Devonte Wyatt
• 2021: Saints, EDGE Payton Turner
• 2020: Ravens, LB Patrick Queen
• 2019: Chargers, DT Jerry Tillery
• 2018: Steelers, S Terrell Edmunds
• 2017: Cowboys, EDGE Taco Charlton
• 2016: 49ers, OL Joshua Garnett
• 2015: Lions, OL Laken Tomlinson

Current 2025 NFL Draft 1st round order

Here’s a look at the rest of the 2025 draft order that we know so far:

1. Tennessee Titans
2. Cleveland Browns
3. New York Giants
4. New England Patriots
5. Jacksonville Jaguars
6. Las Vegas Raiders
7. New York Jets
8. Carolina Panthers
9. New Orleans Saints
10. Chicago Bears
11. San Francisco 49ers
12. Dallas Cowboys
13. Miami Dolphins
14. Indianapolis Colts
15. Atlanta Falcons
16. Arizona Cardinals
17. Cincinnati Bengals
18. Seattle Seahawks
19. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
20. Denver Broncos
21. Pittsburgh Steelers
22. Los Angeles Chargers
23. Green Bay Packers
24. Minnesota Vikings
25. Houston Texans
26. TBD
27. TBD
28. Detroit Lions

Still to be determined

• Los Angeles Rams (10-7)
• Washington Commanders (12-5)
• Baltimore Ravens (12-5)
• Buffalo Bills (13-4)
• Philadelphia Eagles (14-3)
• Kansas City Chiefs (15-2)