2025 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft: Pairings, deadlines

Our 2025 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft is underway! From now until draft day, members of our comment section will represent all 32 teams in the draft, allowing our community to run their own collective mock! It’s also an opportunity for those members to write their own articles explaining their first round picks. Our own Erik Schlitt will represent the Detroit Lions.

Over the past week, I’ve tried my best to pair people who submitted their form to a team they requested. I couldn’t match everyone with a team they wanted, but a large majority of the people selected should be representing a preferred team. I think this year only five or six people didn’t get a team they requested—and I tried to make those people the ones who said they had no preference.

If you have been selected to participate, you should have already received an email from me. If you are on the list below, but didn’t get an email, please say something in the comment section below, and I’ll reach out to you. If you have been selected, but cannot participate any longer, please reach out to me ASAP so I can get a replacement.

The draft is already underway via email, but we’ll be providing updates on the mock draft on the website very shortly. Each pick in the first round will get its own post, plus an opportunity for our entire community to grade each selection. Once the draft really gets going, we’ll have a tracker for you to keep abreast of all the picks.

For now, here’s a look at everyone who will be participating in this year’s Community Mock Draft.

2025 POD Community Mock Draft schedule, pairings

How the Community Mock Draft works

1. If you’re in the above group, you will get an email from me when you are on the clock. The email will include a list of all the players selected prior to your pick.
2. When you get this email, send me your pick ASAP. To get the draft moving along as quickly as possible, I need your pick before your write-up. So as soon as you decide, please send me an email back, and then get working on your write-up.
3. Your write-up should be sent shortly thereafter and should be no longer than 300 words.
4. Please do research on your own team, but don’t let it hold up the rest of the draft. For example, when you’re on the clock, don’t go over to your team’s website and hold a poll for your pick. That process could take over 24 hours, and you shouldn’t be waiting that long to make your pick. If everyone took 24 hours, we wouldn’t finish this on time. Do your research BEFORE you’re on the clock.
5. If you need to bow out of your GM responsibilities, email me immediately. We have plenty of commenters on standby if you can’t pick.
6. Please do not reveal any of your picks before they are posted on the website. That takes the fun out of it.
7. When we get to the second round, I only need your pick. There will be no individual writeups.

If you have any questions, feel free to type them in the comment section below or reach out to me via email or Twitter.

HAPPY DRAFTING!