{"id":656021,"date":"2026-01-05T13:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/656021\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:51:12","slug":"chargers-updated-2026-nfl-draft-order-current-1st-round-pick-after-week-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/656021\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers 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 Chargers are looking toward the NFL playoffs, and their draft position won\u2019t be completely finalized until they either are eliminated in the postseason or win the Super Bowl. But the conclusion of the regular season did crystallize the draft order for the teams that were eliminated from postseason contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Heading into Week 18, the Raiders, an AFC West rival, was penciled into the first overall pick after their Week 17 loss to the New York Giants, who had held it previously. After Sunday\u2019s loss to the Chiefs, the Raiders stick at No. 1 overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Elsewhere in the AFC West, the Chiefs are picking the highest they have since 2017, when they selected quarterback Patrick Mahomes with the 10th overall selection. And we won\u2019t officially know where the AFC West winners, the Broncos, will be picking until we see how their playoff efforts go.<\/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 Sunday\u2019s Week 18 games.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 2026 NFL Draft order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers are looking toward the NFL playoffs, and their draft position won\u2019t be completely finalized until they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[241,7,1014,262,2452,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-656021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","12":"tag-los-angeles-chargers-draft","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangeleschargers","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656021","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=656021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}