Pittsburgh Steelers 2025 NFL Draft Pick Selections Finalized
The final draft picks slots for the Pittsburgh Steelers picks in the 2025 NFL Draft have been revealed, now that the league has finalized both the compensatory picks for this year’s draft class and process the team’s trade with the Seattle Seahawks for wide receiver DK Metcalf.
Unless the Steelers make another trade, they’ll have six picks in seven rounds for this year’s draft, which will take place April 24-26 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Here’s the Steelers picks, how they acquired them all, and also a rundown of the picks the Steelers had and traded away.
• 1st Round, pick No. 21
The Steelers will pick at No. 21 in the first round. As a Wild Card round loser, the Steelers were locked into a pick between No. 19 and No. 24. The Los Angeles Chargers (22), Green Bay Packers (23) and Minnesota Vikings (24) all had better records, while the Steelers lost the tiebreaker to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (19) and Denver Broncos (20).
• 2nd Round, pick traded, no selection
The Steelers traded pick No. 52 to the Seattle Seahawks in early March in exchange for wide receiver DK Metcalf. They also swapped picks later in the draft in the same trade with Seattle
• 3rd Round, pick No. 83
Because the Steelers, Buccaneers and Broncos all tied, they will rotate their order between those three teams through each round. The Steelers were the last of the 10-7 Wild Card losers in the first round, but are ahead of Denver and Tampa Bay in the third round.
• 4th Round, pick No. 123
The Steelers move back to the back of the three-team rotation.
• 5th Round, pick No. 156
This pick is higher than it should be, because both the San Francisco 49ers and Atlanta Falcons forfeited their fifth-round picks in this year’s draft. San Francisco’s was due to a payroll error that caused them to violate the salary cap. Atlanta’s was for tampering with quarterback Kirk Cousins before signing him as a free agent last year. The same Kirk Cousins who Atlanta has since replaced with a first-round draft pick, benched, and now is completely untradable because of his albatross of a contract. Nice work, Atlanta.
• 5th Round, pick traded
The Steelers had pick No. 156 in the fifth round, which they received as part of the trade that sent guard Kevin Dotson to the Los Angeles Rams in 2023. Pittsburgh then sent that pick to the New York Jets at the 2024 trade deadline for wide receiver Mike Williams.
• 6th Round, pick No. 185
The Steelers got this pick back from Seattle, along with Metcalf, in exchange for their second-round pick and one of their seventh-round selections. The Seahawks originally acquired this pick from the Chicago Bears for linebacker Darrell Taylor.
• 6th Round, pick traded
The Steelers natural pick in the sixth round fell to No. 195. It was sent to the Rams as part of the above Dotson trade. The Steelers sent Dotson to L.A. for fourth and fifth round picks, while trading fifth and sixth, moving up in consecutive draft years.
• 6th Round, pick traded
Pick No. 202 originally belonged to the Houston Texans. It came to Pittsburgh in 2023 in exchange for center Kendrick Green. The Steelers then sent it to Chicago for quarterback Justin Fields last offseason. Since then, the Bears have traded it to the Rams for guard Jonah Jackson.
• 7th Round, pick traded
The Steelers got two seventh-round picks from the Philadelphia Eagles, along with the 2024 third-round pick they used to draft Payton Wilson, for quarterback Kenny Pickett and a fourth-rounder in last year’s draft. Pick No. 223 was the first of those two picks, which the Eagles had first acquired from the New Orleans Saints. The Steelers sent this seventh-rounder to Seattle for Metcalf.
• 7th Round, No. 229
The second of the two seventh-rounders the Steelers got for Pickett, this pick originally belonged to the Atlanta Falcons.
• 7th Round, pick traded
Pittsburgh’s own seventh-round pick at No. 237 was traded to the Green Bay Packers last year at the trade deadline for outside linebacker Preston Smith.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS 2025 NFL DRAFT SELECTIONS
• 1st Round, pick No. 21
• 3rd Round, pick No. 83
• 4th Round, pick No. 123
• 5th Round, pick No. 156
• 6th Round, pick No. 185 via Chicago and Seattle
• 7th Round, pick No. 229 via Atlanta and Philadelphia