Pride of Detroit
With the Detroit Lions playoff run coming to an end, the team now knows where it will pick in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft.
The Detroit Lions 2024 season has come to a close and the Lions now hold the pick No. 28 in the 2025 NFL Draft.
Because there are still a variety of things that will take place over the offseason, the only picks we know for certain at this time are in the first round. As the offseason plays out, more picks will be awarded to teams via the NFL—i.e. compensatory picks, awarded picks based on minority hires, etc.—and we will learn all the Lions’ official picks in the coming months.
For now, here is where the Lions are slotted to pick, keeping in mind the pick numbers beyond No. 28 are just estimated placeholders:
Lions picks traded away
The Lions have held the No. 28 pick just once in their history, back in 2015 when they selected Duke guard Laken Tomlinson. After playing just two seasons with the Lions, Tomlinson was traded to the San Francisco 49ers for a fifth-round pick. Tomlinson spent 2024 with the Seahawks and has played in 163 games, starting 155 of them.
Here are the last players selected at pick No. 28 over the past decade:
Here’s a look at the rest of the 2025 draft order that we know so far:
Still to be determined
