diff --git a/packages/devtools_app/lib/src/screens/network/network_controller.dart b/packages/devtools_app/lib/src/screens/network/network_controller.dart
index 3137680fbdd..7bc352d367b 100644
--- a/packages/devtools_app/lib/src/screens/network/network_controller.dart
+++ b/packages/devtools_app/lib/src/screens/network/network_controller.dart
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ class NetworkController extends DisposableController
         OfflineScreenControllerMixin,
         AutoDisposeControllerMixin {
   NetworkController() {
-    _initHelper();
     _networkService = NetworkService(this);
     _currentNetworkRequests = CurrentNetworkRequests();
+    _initHelper();
     addAutoDisposeListener(
       _currentNetworkRequests,
       _filterAndRefreshSearchMatches,
@@ -197,14 +197,25 @@ class NetworkController extends DisposableController
     }
   }
 
-  void loadOfflineData(OfflineNetworkData offlineData) {
+  Future<void> loadOfflineData(OfflineNetworkData offlineData) async {
+    // Set filtered data to the requests available in offline data.
     filteredData
       ..clear()
       ..addAll(offlineData.requests);
 
+    // If a selectedRequestId is available, select it in offline mode.
     if (offlineData.selectedRequestId != null) {
-      selectedRequest.value =
-          _currentNetworkRequests.getRequest(offlineData.selectedRequestId!);
+      final selected = offlineData.getRequest(offlineData.selectedRequestId!);
+      if (selected != null) {
+        selectedRequest.value = selected;
+        if (selectedRequest.value is DartIOHttpRequestData) {
+          unawaited(
+            (selectedRequest.value as DartIOHttpRequestData)
+                .getFullRequestData(),
+          );
+        }
+        resetDropDown();
+      }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/devtools_app/lib/src/screens/network/offline_network_data.dart b/packages/devtools_app/lib/src/screens/network/offline_network_data.dart
index ee030659dce..2322b7dc691 100644
--- a/packages/devtools_app/lib/src/screens/network/offline_network_data.dart
+++ b/packages/devtools_app/lib/src/screens/network/offline_network_data.dart
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import 'package:devtools_shared/devtools_shared.dart';
 
 import '../../shared/http/http_request_data.dart';
 import '../../shared/primitives/utils.dart';
+import 'network_model.dart';
 
 /// Class to encapsulate offline data for the [NetworkController].
 /// It is responsible for serializing and deserializing offline network data.
@@ -40,6 +41,16 @@ class OfflineNetworkData with Serializable {
   /// List of current [DartIOHttpRequestData] network requests.
   final List<DartIOHttpRequestData> requests;
 
+  /// Get a request by matching its `id` field.
+  // Temporarily added to check selection in the filtered requests data,
+  // until we have current requests data in place
+  NetworkRequest? getRequest(String id) {
+    // Search through the list of requests and return the one with the matching ID.
+    return requests.firstWhere(
+      (request) => request.id == id,
+    );
+  }
+
   /// The ID of the currently selected request, if any.
   final String? selectedRequestId;