GREEN BAY, Wis. – Penn State football defensive end Abdul Carter (3rd overall, New York Giants) and tight end Tyler Warren (14th overall, Indianapolis Colts) were selected in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft on Thursday.
Carter and Warren became Penn State’s 43rd and 44th all-time first round draft picks. It marks the 11th time Penn State has had multiple first round picks in the same draft.
Penn State had multiple first round picks in a draft for the third time under head coach James Franklin.
Carter is Penn State’s highest overall draft pick since Saquon Barkley was selected second overall by the New York Giants in 2018. He joins DT Bruce Clark (4th overall, Green Bay; 1980) and DE Courtney Brown (1st overall, Cleveland; 2000) as Penn State defensive linemen selected as a top five overall pick.
Warren is Penn State’s third tight end to be selected in the first round of an NFL Draft, joining Ted Kwalick (7th overall, San Francisco; 1969) and Kyle Brady (9th overall, New York Jets; 1995).
Penn State has had a tight end selected in each of the last three drafts, including Brenton Strange (2nd Round, Jacksonville; 2023), Theo Johnson (4th Round, New York Giants; 2024) and Warren. Penn State entered the 2025 draft tied with Georgia, Iowa and Michigan for the longest streak of tight ends drafted.
Penn State is one of two schools that has had a player selected among the first three rounds of the NFL Draft in 20-straight years, joining LSU. USC could also reach 20-straight years with a top-three round pick.
The Nittany Lions have a total of 47 players who have been drafted in the last eight NFL drafts, the most in an eight-year span for the program since 1990-97 (49 picks).
A total of 391 Nittany Lions have been selected all-time in the NFL Draft, which ranks seventh among Division I institutions. Penn State has had 56 players selected since James Franklin’s arrival to the program in 2014, including 25 taken on the first two days of the draft. In that span, Franklin is tied with Georgia’s Kirby Smart for the most defensive ends drafted (9) and most tight ends drafted (6).
Abdul Carter
Carter is Penn State’s 25th defensive end (47th defensive lineman) selected in the NFL Draft and PSU’s eighth defensive end selected in the first round and the ninth defensive end drafted in the James Franklin era, tied-most for any active FBS head coach since 2015.
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