Browns, Giants listening to trade offers for No. 2, 3 picks in 2025 NFL Draft

The 2025 NFL Draft is just two days out now with much already thought to be set for how the selections would start off during the opening round on Thursday. However, those picks may not be the same by the time the clock starts on them now per ESPN’s Peter Schrager.

On ‘Get Up’ on Tuesday, Schrager reported that, per his sources, several teams are trying to make trades into the top-three, specifically with the Cleveland Browns at No. 2 and the New York Giants at No. 3. Cleveland and New York are listening to them too, which would change the direction of this draft for around the NFL and for prospects like Penn State DE Abdul Carter, Colorado ATH Travis Hunter, or even Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty.

“I will tell you this. Around the league, the Titans? They’re not listening to trade offers. However, there have been phone calls made to both the Browns at two and the Giants at three with the intention to move up from several different sources telling me there are teams who are looking to get up in this draft to either the two or the three spot, the assumption being to move up to the two or the three spot would be for Abdul Carter, Travis Hunter, or the running back, Ashton Jeanty, who everyone expects to go somewhere in that five to seven to eight range,” Schrager said.

“There have been teams making calls and those teams are not immediately slamming down the phone. The Browns at two, the Giants at three? Everyone assumes it’s going to be chalk – that this is going to go Cam Ward, it’s going to go Travis Hunter, it’s going to go Abdul Carter. Not so fast.”

With that, Mike Tannenbaum noted that this could be moving quickly behind the scenes for whichever franchises would be in this in the NFL. Deals that significant, which are on the clock too ahead of the start of this draft, have negotiations and agreement ahead of time as he’d expect it to be complete, whether publicly or not, by Tuesday or Wednesday.

“Let’s be clear about what Peter is saying. When you’re talking about transformational trades…those trades are agreed to, today or tomorrow. They are executed on the clock,” explained Tannenbaum. “Agreement in principles with the other team are made ahead of time. They’re too important. They’re too big. You need the head coach, the owner, and the GM on the same page. So, if a big trade like Peter is saying actually happens, I would expect, very quietly, that it’s agreed to at some point today or tomorrow and then, by the time we get to Thursday night, it’s simply executed.”

This conversation came down to the lack of high-end talent in this draft class overall. There are several who could be productive starters but, in general, only a handful have evaluations at the very top as of now. That means trading into the top-three to top-five or so to have a chance at any of those besides, by all accounts, Cam Ward to the Tennessee Titans at No. 1.

A lot can still change with more than 48 hours before anyone’s on the clock at the start of the NFL Draft. That could be the case for any team willing to reportedly trade up or for Cleveland or New York being willing to trade down for multiple assets rather than just those lone picks at No. 2 and No. 3 respectively.

“The feeling is that these teams need talent all over the roster and there’s very few blue-chips (in this draft). If you’re going chalk, it’s, hey, just take Hunter, take Carter and move on,” said Schrager. “When we start talking about multiple first-round picks in the future, you start talking about multiple day-two picks in this draft? Both these teams have giant holes all over the roster. You have to listen to at least hear if there’s a Godfather offer.”