We held our annual NFL community mock draft for 2025, with some added emphasis to the Cleveland Browns. We used to do some retrospectives on how the community as a whole ended up doing, so let’s take a look at that now.

Below in the first three columns is how the actual first round (plus a few of the Browns later picks) went down. To preserve who a person intended a player to go to, I denoted if there was a trade and who the initial team in that spot was.

I also have a scoring system of sorts. The pick gets 2 points if the pick matched identically, and if the initial team stayed put. I added a 1.5 point category if the player was the correct pick at the exact spot, but the team itself had changed. If a player was still taken anywhere in the first round, you still got 1 point. And then for the Browns’ picks, if the player was picked and ended up being taken at any point by Cleveland, I still awarded 1 point.

Some notes from the results:

Even though the order was shaken up by a trade, it’s pretty cool that out of our five volunteers for the Browns picks, three of the players they projected ended up being members of the Cleveland Browns (QB Shedeur Sanders, RB Quinshon Judkins, TE Harold Fannin Jr.). Now, obviously, with the Sanders pick, we’re talking about a projection in the first round, being taken in the fifth round, but still, it worked out, lol.
Jared Mueller (Titans at #1), Barry Shuck (Giants at #3), Joe_tait_wham_RH (Raiders at #6), Crawford_T (Jets at #7), Wahoo7 (Panthers at #8), fjblessi (Colts at #14), Crawford_T (Falcons at #15), and GeraldSmith123 (Bills at #30) ended up nailing their picks exactly. I picked the correct player for the #5 spot, but the teams changed.
Overall, it was a very solid effort by the DBN Community and staff to get the mock draft together. It’s one of the best matching mocks to the actual results that I’ve seen in all my years of running DBN, although like I said earlier, we really do have to throw an asterisk on that Sanders pick, which worked out but is also a huge swing and a miss.