Everything you need to prepare for the 2025 NFL Draft

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Welcome to draft week! There are just three more sleeps until Round 1 of the 90th Annual Player Selection Meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Consider this your one-stop guide for all things 2025 NFL Draft.

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➤ Complete 2025 NFL draft order

NFL news, notes and analysis

What else is going on in the NFL? Aaron Rodgers said some stuff ...

➤ Aaron Rodgers clearly enjoys holding the NFL hostage: The NFL’s lamest offseason storyline had a new – but not unexpected – twist Thursday when Aaron Rodgers had thoughts on the New York Jets and new head coach Aaron Glenn. In doing so, Rodgers proved that the Jets were smart to move on from this mess.

➤ New Jets QB Justin Fields might be in right situation: While Rodgers stews about his Jets exit, the team's new quarterback could be in for a revitalization. The third time might be the charm for Fields, the Chicago Bears' top pick in the 2021 NFL Draft.

➤ Which prospects will be at 2025 NFL Draft? There will be 16 prospects in attendance in Green Bay this week. The number of players attending represents an increase from last year's total, when 13 players went to Detroit for the 2024 NFL Draft.

➤ This is cool: The Los Angeles Rams will conduct their draft operations from Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Air Operations, honoring the first responders who call Los Angeles home. It will mark the first time in NFL history a team will take their draft operations to a fire station.

NFL classics: Straight from the YouTube algorithm 🏈🎞️

This is where we reprise some NFL lore and recall classic, memorable moments from yesteryear.

Since the NFL took its Annual Player Selection Meeting out of New York and on the road to rotating host cities in 2015, it took away a draft tradition unlike any other – Jets fans booing their own new players.

Now, fans at the draft save their booing for commissioner Roger Goodell. Not quite the same. One of the best aspects of the NFL's traveling draft show, however, might be when ex-players make their respective former teams' selections and troll rivals (David Akers, anyone?).

But, we're here to talk about New York and the Jets and how their fans reacted negatively to their own picks.

"The Jets take, with their first-round selection, quarterback Ken O'Brien of California Davis."

Boos! The Jets did this when the team could have had Dan Marino.

"The New York Jets' first-round selection, fullback Roger Vick, Texas A&M."

Boos! Vick had a career-high 540 yards rushing in 1988 and played only four NFL seasons.

"The New York Jets select Johnny Mitchell, tight end, Nebraska."

Boos! This came one pick after the crosstown Giants selected another tight end: Derek Brown. Neither player really panned out.

This tradition peaked in 1995, however, when Jets fans were clamoring for Warren Sapp: "We want Sapp! We want Sapp! We want Sapp!"

Cue commissioner Paul Tagliabue at the podium: "The New York Jets select tight end from Penn State, Kyle Brady."

Sapp is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Brady played four seasons for the Jets.

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