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How Much Will 2025 NFL Draft Picks Make?

First-round draft picks will make over $200 million more than players drafted during rounds 2 and 3.

Apr 27, 2025 | 10:11 am

UPDATED Apr 29, 2025 | 10:10 am

Christopher Handler paints a new 2025 NFL Draft-themed fence along Lombardi Avenue on April 12, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis.

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.