Eli Manning-Philip Rivers trade among all-time most memorable NFL Draft moments

It's officially draft week, with the 2025 NFL Draft starting Thursday in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

An annual sports spectacle like no other, the draft delivers memorable moments and selections year in and year out.

That said, what are some of those moments that stand out the most?

We've rounded up the top 10, in chronological order.

How badly did the New Orleans Saints want Texas running back and 1998 Heisman Trophy Award winner Ricky Williams? So badly that they traded eight picks to get him; New Orleans traded its first- (No. 25), third-, fourth-, fifth-, sixth- and seventh-round selections in the 1999 NFL Draft and its first- and third-round selections in the 2000 NFL Draft to Washington for the fifth overall pick. Williams went on to have a successful NFL career, but he only played in New Orleans for three seasons, as the Saints traded him to the Miami Dolphins in the 2002 offseason. Granted, New Orleans recouped some of the draft capital that it gave up to get Williams, receiving what became two first-round picks (a conditional third-rounder became a first-rounder) and swapping fourth-round picks with Miami.

With the No. 17 pick in the 2000 NFL Draft, the Raiders took FSU kicker and two-time All-American Sebastian Janikowski, who went on to have a successful career (2000-16 with the Raiders and 2018 with the Seattle Seahawks). Across his 17-year NFL career, Janikowski led the league with the longest field goal in a single season three times. Lane Kiffin even had Janikowski attempt a 76-yard field goal in 2008. Janikowski stands far and away first in Raiders history with 414 career field goals, with his 436 combined career field goals tied for 10th in NFL history. He also stands as the highest drafted kicker in the 21st