Yahoo Sports · Apr 21, 2025
2025 NFL mock draft: Complete first round computer simulation, via ESPN analytics
The 2025 NFL draft is this week, and teams have finalized their draft boards ahead of what's expected to be an intriguing first round on draft weekend.
We've been sharing our weekly mock drafts throughout this pre-draft process, where we've tried to pin down realistic scenarios. But everyone's thought process when it comes into assembling mocks is different, which makes it exciting with any given week. So we decided to introduce a twist.
In this exercise, we let the computer do the selecting in the first round -- and there were both expected and surprising results. We used ESPN Analytics'mock draft simulator to predict Day 1 of the draft. Here were the first round results: