Teams begin to draw up their strategies to tie up players at the cost of large sums of money. NFL teams have begun the negotiation phase to see who they will assign as their franchise player. They generally fall into the high-salary positions in order to retain them and prevent them from leaving for another team.

Miami Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward is entering the 2025 NFL Draft with a high level of confidence, telling teams that pass over him, "I'll remember that."