With the 2025 NFL draft now complete, the league is approaching its second prime trade window of the offseason. There are a few reasons why trade activity tends to pick back up after the draft. For one, hundreds of new players just joined NFL rosters, so some teams now have a surplus of talent in certain positions.

2023 featured Mike Morris going in the fifth round and Jaylen Harrell went in the seventh in 2024. But otherwise, recent first-rounders include Aidan Hutchinson (2022), Kwity Paye (2021), Rashan Gary (2019), and Taco Charlton (2017). Frank Clark, Chase Winovich, Chris Wormley, Josh Uche, and David Ojabo were second and third-round picks.

It will be the first time Washington hosts the Draft since the NFL started rotating the sites from New York in 2015. "I'm pleased to reveal that the 2027 NFL Draft will be held ri