Steelers lock in No. 21 pick in 2025 NFL Draft

With the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2024 NFL season officially having come to a close, their spot in the 2025 NFL Draft is officially locked in. The Steelers will be picking 21st in the draft order after their 10-7 finish and first-round exit in the playoffs.

Though compensatory picks have yet to be awarded, here’s a look at the Steelers’ projected picks by round as it stands to close out the Wild Card round, per Tankathon. Keep in mind that the position of these picks may shift given that some of the teams are still in playoff contention.

Steelers 2025 draft picks

• Round 1, Pick No. 21
• Round 2, Pick No. 52
• Round 3, Pick No. 83
• Round 4, Pick No. 122
• Round 5, Pick No. 157
• Round 6 — None
• Round 7, Picks No. 223, 229, 242

Steelers draft pick notes

Thanks to plenty of wizardry from Steelers GM Omar Khan, there’s a few trades to be aware of when assessing Pittsburgh’s collection of draft picks in 2025. Here are a few considerations worth noting:

• The Steelers owned both their own 2025 fifth-round pick, as well as a fifth-round pick acquired from the Los Angeles Rams acquired in the Kevin Dotson trade. The Steelers traded one of these picks to acquire WR Mike Williams from the New York Jets, but it’s unclear which of the two draft picks were involved in the trade.
• The Steelers sent a conditional sixth-round pick to acquire QB Justin Fields from the Chicago Bears that would escalate to a fourth-round pick if he played more than 51% of offensive snaps in 2024. Fields played 36.14% of offensive snaps, so the pick will be a sixth-rounder.
• The Steelers acquired a sixth-rounder from the Houston Texans in the trade of Kendrick Green.
• It’s unclear which of the sixth-round picks (Steelers, Texans) that the Rams and Bears received in their respective trades.
• In 2022, the Steelers traded a 2025 conditional sixth-round pick for William Jackson III and a 2025 seventh-round pick. Though it hasn’t explicitly been acknowledged that the conditions of the pick were not met, it would appear that is the case, as the Steelers traded away two sixth-round picks since, including one to the LA Rams and the aforementioned sixth-rounder sent for QB Justin Fields.
• The Steelers’ acquired two seventh-round picks from the Philadelphia Eagles in the Kenny Pickett trade — the two most favorable of the Broncos, Eagles, Falcons and Saints picks.
• The Steelers sent a conditional seventh-round pick to the Minnesota Vikings in 2022 for OL Jesse Davis. It’s unclear if the conditions of the trade were met, so the team may or may not own its draft pick.
• The Steelers sent a seventh-round pick to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for LB Preston Smith. It’s unclear what draft pick was sent for Smith.