The Chicago Bears will be on the clock with pick No. 25 on Thursday when the 2026 NFL Draft kicks off on Thursday in Pittsburgh. And while it’s far from a top-five pick, it’s not without its own history.
Fun Fact: The last time the Bears had the No. 25 pick in the draft in 1989, they traded it. Chicago moved down in a deal with the Miami Dolphins, acquiring selections in the second and third rounds that they spent on linebacker John Roper at No. 36 and offensive lineman Jerry Fontenot at No. 65. Miami chose safety Louis Oliver at No. 25.
What the Bears do with it on Thursday is the real question. The recent history of the 25th pick shows it can yield a starter, a cornerstone, or a trade that buys a team multiple assets to work with on Days 2 and 3. Given how this class is constructed and what we know about General Manager Ryan Poles’ willingness to be creative on draft weekend, any of those outcomes is on the table.
Screenshot via Chicago Bears/YouTubeChicago Bears NFL Draft: A Look at the History of Pick No. 25
For the Chicago Bears, their first-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft lands at No. 25 because of their 11-6 regular-season record last year. It was good enough to win the NFC North crown and earn a home Wild Card game. However, it was not quite enough to leapfrog the higher seeds in the NFC. They beat the Packers in an epic Wild Card round before falling to the Rams in the divisional round. But that’s the cost of a breakthrough season, and Chicago should wear it as a badge of honor.
A look back at recent selections at this spot offers some useful context for what the Bears might be getting (or trading) on draft night.
The most recent holder of the 25th pick, in 2025, was the Houston Texans, and they moved it. Just moments before they were slated to choose, Houston dealt the pick to the New York Giants, who used it to select Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart. The Texans received the 34th and 99th overall picks, plus a 2026 third-rounder in return, a classic trade-down haul that netted them Day 2 volume in exchange for the back end of Round 1.
Houston selected wide receiver Jayden Higgins out of Iowa State, and later traded No. 99 to the Las Vegas Raiders along with No. 58 for No. 48. With the pick the Texans drafted offensive tackle Aireontae Ersery out of Minnesota.
It’s a template worth keeping in mind, given Chicago’s own discussions about potentially moving around this year.
Before that, in 2024, the Green Bay Packers used the 25th pick on Arizona offensive tackle Jordan Morgan, a selection that looked like a value play at the time and has held up as solid foundational work for Green Bay’s offensive line. A year earlier, in 2023, the Buffalo Bills traded up from No. 27 to No. 25 by sending Jacksonville a fourth-rounder (No. 130) and used the pick on Utah tight end Dalton Kincaid.
Go back a bit further, and you’ll see that the 25th pick has produced some quality NFL players.
© Barry Reeger-Imagn ImagesTyler Linderbaum, who was a part of the Bears’ offseason conversation earlier this spring, came off the board here in 2022. Travis Etienne went 25th to Jacksonville in 2021 and has developed into one of the league’s better backs during his time with the Jaguars before signing a free-agent deal with the New Orleans Saints. Brandon Aiyuk went 25th to San Francisco in 2020 and became one of the game’s top receivers and led to him signing an extension in August 2024. Marquise Brown went here in 2019 to Baltimore. The pick has a reasonably strong recent track record.
Zooming out even further, some genuinely significant players have come off this board. Dont’a Hightower went 25th to the Patriots in 2012 and became a foundational piece of multiple Super Bowl teams. Santonio Holmes went 25th to Pittsburgh in 2006 and caught the Super Bowl XLIII game-winner. Tim Tebow went here in 2010, which is — well, that’s a different conversation.
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