This year, the Green Bay Packers traded defensive end Preston Smith to the Pittsburgh Steelers at the NFL trade deadline in exchange for a seventh-round pick.
However, the exact details of the pick aren’t straightforward.
The Steelers have rights to up to five different seventh-round picks in the upcoming draft, and the NFL trade records did not clarify which of these picks will be sent to Green Bay.
One potential complication is that the Steelers’ original seventh-round pick might go to the Minnesota Vikings.
In 2022, Pittsburgh traded a conditional seventh-round pick for the 2025 draft to the Vikings to acquire guard Jesse Davis.
Davis played one season with the Steelers, the specific conditions of the trade weren’t disclosed.
If the trade was conditional upon Davis remaining on the team’s final roster that year, the pick would go to Minnesota—but this is just speculation.
Besides their original seventh-round pick, the Steelers also received two seventh-round picks from the Philadelphia Eagles when they traded quarterback Kenny Pickett to Philadelphia.
The Eagles currently hold four seventh-round picks for the 2025 draft: their own, the Denver Broncos’, the New Orleans Saints’, and the Atlanta Falcons’.
The Broncos’ pick came through a trade involving tight end Albert Okwuegbunam, the Falcons’ pick was from a trade involving defensive end Kentavius Street, and the Saints’ pick was part of a trade for safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson.
The Pickett trade, like the Smith trade, didn’t specify a particular seventh-round pick for Pittsburgh.
likely, the Steelers will receive the two highest picks the Eagles hold, with the top of those likely going to the Packers if Pittsburgh’s original pick goes to the Vikings.
Here is the Packers’ projected 2025 draft class as it stands:
Packers Full 2025 Draft Class Picks:
1st (original)
2nd (original)
3rd (original)
4th (original)
5th (original)
6th (original)
7th (via Steelers, to be determined)
7th (compensatory, Yosh Nijman)
Note: The Packers sent their own seventh-round pick to the Tennessee Titans in August in exchange for quarterback Malik Willis.
