{"id":656000,"date":"2026-01-05T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/656000\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:37:10","slug":"buccaneers-updated-2026-nfl-draft-order-current-1st-round-pick-after-week-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/656000\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers updated 2026 NFL Draft order: Current 1st-round pick after Week 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Buccaneers\u2019 season is over, and it\u2019s time to look toward the future \u2014 including the draft. Now that the regular season is over, the Bucs\u2019 first-round selection has been finalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bucs finished with an 8-9 record, which slots them in with the 14th overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. Elsewhere in the NFC South, the last-place Saints will be picking at No. 8. The Falcons also finished 8-9 after beating the Saints to finish off the season, and they would be picking at No. 13, right before the Bucs, if they hadn\u2019t traded that pick to the Rams to trade back up into the first round for pass rusher James Pearce Jr. in the 2025 draft. The Panthers\u2019 pick won\u2019t be finalized until their playoff exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s the updated 2026 draft order following Week 18.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 2026 NFL Draft order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buccaneers\u2019 season is over, and it\u2019s time to look toward the future \u2014 including the draft. Now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,7,6,704,250,2957,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-656000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","13":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-draft","14":"tag-tampabay","15":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115842766888760748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656000","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=656000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}