The 2025 NFL draft is a little over two months away and while much will change as the result of free agency, mock draft season continues to steam forward.
For the New York Giants, most predictions have become redundant and overly familiar. Given that they have the third overall pick in the first round, there’s only a small number of prospects likely to be selected (sans a trade). Rather than continue down that path, Giants Wire attempted something different and a bit more chaotic — comparing mock draft simulations from various outlets.
For this exercise, we left all settings on default with the exception of pick speed and trades. In each simulator that permitted it, we turned trading on, including CPU-to-CPU trades. And that certainly made things more interesting.
We controlled only the Giants and ran only a single simulation each. Here are the results.
The 2025 NFL draft is a little over two months away and while much will change as the result of free agency, mock draft season continues to steam forward.For the New York Giants, most predictions have become redundant and overly familiar. Given that they have the third overall pick in the first round, there’s only a small number of prospects likely to be selected (sans a trade). Rather than continue down that path, Giants Wire attempted something different and a bit more chaotic — comparing mock draft simulations from various outlets.For this exercise, we left all settings on default with the exception of pick speed and trades. In each simulator that permitted it, we turned trading on, including CPU-to-CPU trades. And that certainly made things more interesting.We controlled only the Giants and ran only a single simulation each. Here are the results.
The 2025 NFL draft is a little over two months away and while much will change as the result of free agency, mock draft season continues to steam forward.
For the New York Giants, most predictions have become redundant and overly familiar. Given that they have the third overall pick in the first round, there’s only a small number of prospects likely to be selected (sans a trade). Rather than continue down that path, Giants Wire attempted something different and a bit more chaotic — comparing mock draft simulations from various outlets.
For this exercise, we left all settings on default with the exception of pick speed and trades. In each simulator that permitted it, we turned trading on, including CPU-to-CPU trades. And that certainly made things more interesting.
We controlled only the Giants and ran only a single simulation each. Here are the results.
Pro Football Focus
The Pro Football Focus mock draft simulator does not permit trades. As a result, the selections were a bit more generic and similar to the mock drafts we’ve run in the past. Their ratings (and subsequent grades) remain somewhat curious and arguably inaccurate.
Although PFF offers the smoothest simulator, it’s limited in customization and what we consider outdated rankings.
Except for Aireontae Ersery, you’ve seen all these names in Giants Wire mocks to date.
Pro Football Network
Pro Football Network did allow trades but none that we received were worthy of pulling the trigger. Instead, we stood pat and addressed five different areas of need. Similar to PFF, Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart was available in Round 2 even though that will be unlikely come April (this becomes a trend).
With the abundance of computer trades, it did allow for a different trajectory in Rounds 3 and 4.
Mock Draft Database
Once again, there were no worthy trade options during our Mock Draft Database simulation. However, choices being made by the computer were much more interesting than PFF and PFN, and it created terrific opportunities for the Giants.
Based on the ESPN positional prospect rankings, the Giants grabbed top 10 players (at their positions) with all five of their picks.
If we were to nitpick about anything, the Donovan Jackson grade should have been an “A.”
NFL Draft Buzz
The NFL Draft Buzz simulation was chaotic, to say the least. The simulator is cluttered and flashy. On top of that, trades are thrown around like candy during trick-or-treating on Halloween.
Right out of the gate, the Giants had five offers for the No. 3 overall pick. Despite a reluctance to trade down, the Green Bay Packers came in hot and we bit (more on that in a moment).
With that pick, we addressed the safety position with the best in the draft. Then, similar to other simulations, we lucked out and landed Dart in Round 2.
As you can see, other trades were made and the Giants stocked up on draft assets. Six total picks were made over the first four rounds with five of those carrying starter potential.
The additional picks acquired were as follows:
- 2026 first-round pick (Packers)
- 2026 second-round pick (Packers)
- 2026 second-round pick (New England Patriots)
- 2026 fourth-round pick (Patriots)
- 2026 fifth-round pick (Patriots)
SportsKeeda
SportsKeeda uses the same technology for their simulator that Pro Football Network does with slight modifications.
In this mock draft, the choices are obvious and repeating. The only difference was a trade with the Dallas Cowboys at the end of the fourth round. Dallas received the 134th overall pick in exchange for picks No. 150 and 174.
The decision to trade that pick was due to the lack of value (based on need) at No. 134.