The 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay was a drastically different financial experience for future NFL players, depending on which day they were selected and with which pick.
First-round draft picks will total $693.9 million in contract value. Of this amount, 48% will go to the first ten picks of the draft.
Players selected on Day 2 see a dramatic drop in potential earnings on their rookie contracts. The 39th pick, or seventh pick of the second round, is the last player who will make at least $10 million.
For players drafted on Friday, the total amount they make in their rookie contracts is $469.3 million, or an average of $7.3 million per player in total contract value.
Day 3 players see a less significant drop in potential earnings than those selected during the third round.
For example, the last player picked on Day 2 will make $5.98 million. Kobee Minor, the final pick of this year’s NFL Draft, will make $4.3 million, only a 28% drop. It’s still a substantial amount, but less pronounced than the 56% difference between the last players selected on Day 1 compared to Day 2.
2025 NFL Draft Picks’ Earnings
Here’s how much 2025 NFL draft players will make by expected year 1 earnings, total contract value (First Round only), and signing bonuses:
| Pick | Year 1 earnings | Total contract value | Signing bonus |
| 1 | $7,820,000 | $43,010,000 | $27,920,000 |
| 2 | $7,474,234 | $41,108,290 | $26,536,937 |
| 3 | $7,254,206 | $39,898,136 | $25,656,822 |
| 4 | $7,002,737 | $38,515,052 | $24,650,488 |
| 5 | $6,562,670 | $36,094,688 | $22,290,681 |
| 6 | $5,776,839 | $31,772,616 | $19,747,459 |
| 7 | $5,148,175 | $28,314,964 | $17,327,696 |
| 8 | $4,519,510 | $24,857,308 | $14,713,019 |
| 9 | $4,488,041 | $24,684,224 | $14,529,163 |
| 10 | $4,315,192 | $23,733,556 | $13,200,770 |
| 11 | $4,048,011 | $22,264,062 | $12,832,046 |
| 12 | $3,670,810 | $20,189,458 | $11,323,242 |
| 13 | $3,576,511 | $19,670,812 | $10,946,045 |
| 14 | $3,419,346 | $18,806,406 | $10,317,282 |
| 15 | $3,356,483 | $18,460,658 | $10,065,391 |
| 16 | $3,167,879 | $17,423,336 | $9,911,515 |
| 17 | $3,105,012 | $17,077,566 | $9,060,049 |
| 18 | $3,026,430 | $16,645,368 | $8,748,721 |
| 19 | $2,979,279 | $16,386,036 | $8,557,151 |
| 20 | $2,963,564 | $16,299,602 | $8,494,254 |
| 21 | $2,947,846 | $16,213,156 | $8,431,236 |
| 22 | $2,916,412 | $16,040,266 | $8,305,648 |
| 23 | $2,884,980 | $15,867,390 | $8,179,919 |
| 24 | $2,822,113 | $15,521,620 | $7,984,105 |
| 25 | $2,790,681 | $15,348,744 | $7,802,723 |
| 26 | $2,759,243 | $15,175,838 | $7,676,270 |
| 27 | $2,727,814 | $15,002,980 | $7,551,845 |
| 28 | $2,712,097 | $14,916,532 | $7,488,277 |
| 29 | $2,585,979 | $14,222,886 | $6,949,915 |
| 30 | $2,519,191 | $13,855,552 | $6,767,464 |
| 31 | $2,463,245 | $13,547,846 | $6,492,992 |
| 32 | $2,427,223 | $13,349,728 | $6,348,891 |
Price of Potential
Cam Ward will make $3.5 million more than Caleb Williams did as last year’s top pick, reflecting the NFL’s record salary cap increases. This also extends to signing bonuses, with Ward expected to receive around $27.9 million as a signing bonus compared to Williams’ $25.5 million.
It doesn’t come close to Sam Bradford’s record $50 million in 2010 under a previous CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement), but the trend should continue.
More modest signing bonuses are given for players drafted outside of the first round. The first pick of Day 2 will get $4.5 million, and the first pick of Day 3 will get $955,814 as a signing bonus, 29 times less than the first overall pick.
The data was compiled with Spotrac and OverTheCap.
