{"id":12838,"date":"2025-04-30T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/12838\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:47:08","slug":"texans-order-of-picks-for-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/12838\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans&#8217; order of picks for 2026 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans <\/a>entered NFL draft weekend with seven picks.<\/p>\n<p>They left with<a href=\"https:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/texans\/2025\/04\/27\/2025-nfl-draft-grades-experts-mostly-agree-with-texans-class\/83312970007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/texans\/2025\/04\/27\/2025-nfl-draft-grades-experts-mostly-agree-with-texans-class\/83312970007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> nine players <\/a>after making a record-setting seven trades over <a href=\"https:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/texans\/2025\/04\/27\/2025-nfl-draft-grades-experts-mostly-agree-with-texans-class\/83312970007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/texans\/2025\/04\/27\/2025-nfl-draft-grades-experts-mostly-agree-with-texans-class\/83312970007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the three-day span<\/a> and picked up several draft pieces for the future.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2025 draft in the past and a chance to secure a third division title, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" data-autotag=\"4fdb1a06-1d90-42ff-b7f7-5268ecaf7955\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texans<\/a>&#8216; front office can now look ahead to planning for the 2026 class.<\/p>\n<p>As things stand now, Houston currently holds seven selections for the 2026 NFL draft. The Texans lost their third-round pick in a Day 3 trade to <a href=\"https:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/texans\/2025\/04\/27\/nfl-draft-ras-athleticism-texans-players-picks-jaylin-noel\/83312408007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/texans\/2025\/04\/27\/nfl-draft-ras-athleticism-texans-players-picks-jaylin-noel\/83312408007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquire USC running back Woody Marks,<\/a> but retained New York&#8217;s third-round pick in the trade-up for <a href=\"https:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/texans\/2025\/04\/26\/texans-add-qb-graham-mertz-with-197th-overall-pick-in-2025-nfl-draft\/83299256007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/texanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/texans\/2025\/04\/26\/texans-add-qb-graham-mertz-with-197th-overall-pick-in-2025-nfl-draft\/83299256007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quarterback Jaxson Dart<\/a> in Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of that third-rounder, the Texans hold just three of their seven remaining original picks for 2026, plus a 2026 second-round pick acquired in the Laremy Tunsil deal with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" data-autotag=\"a4fb178e-5fd0-440a-8a7b-b87aea742850\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Commanders<\/a>. With a hit tip to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prosportstransactions.com\/football\/DraftTrades\/Future\/Texans.htm\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.prosportstransactions.com\/football\/DraftTrades\/Future\/Texans.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prosportstransactions.com, <\/a>here&#8217;s a look at the team&#8217;s order of 2026 selections.<\/p>\n<p>Texans 2026 NFL draft order of picksRound 1: Own pickRound 2: Washington&#8217;s pickRound 2: Own pickRound 3: New York Giants&#8217; pickRound 4: Own pickRound 4: Washington&#8217;s pickRound 6: Philadelphia&#8217;s pickRound 7: 49ers&#8217; pick<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be normal in the Nick Caserio era. Most Day 3 picks are shuffled around for either players or future draft compensation to move up into Day 2. That could change, of course, by the time next April arrives because future trades can&#8217;t be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans have already made a trade involving 2027 with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" data-autotag=\"9cb205d1-d46a-4c2c-a80a-90061986bc20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Browns<\/a>, though it was only for a Day 3 selection. That could (and likely will) change, but for now, the Texans hold eight picks heading into next combine showcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Texans entered NFL draft weekend with seven picks. They left with nine players after making a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[204,80,247,265,86,1443,85,54,427,19,7,221,253,2368,2842,594,248,267,88,6,15,245,537,530,3605,3609,9,266,222,3606,4846,855,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-12838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-204","9":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-browns","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-cleveland","15":"tag-cleveland-browns","16":"tag-commanders","17":"tag-draft","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-houston","20":"tag-houston-texans","21":"tag-houstontexans","22":"tag-laremy","23":"tag-laremy-tunsil","24":"tag-national","25":"tag-national-sports","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-nfl","28":"tag-nfl-draft","29":"tag-overall","30":"tag-overall-positive","31":"tag-positive","32":"tag-southern","33":"tag-southern-california-trojans-football","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-sports-news","36":"tag-texans","37":"tag-trojans","38":"tag-tunsil","39":"tag-washington","40":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114427700558884966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}