{"id":657972,"date":"2026-01-06T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/657972\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:38:10","slug":"mock-draft-update-for-the-non-playoff-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/657972\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock draft update for the non-playoff teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL regular season is in the books and with it, the first 18 picks in the 2026 NFL draft are locked in. These are the non-playoff teams, and so this time around, we decided to do our one-round mock draft update just for these 18 picks.<\/p>\n

This time around, we flipped these picks on their heads with a swap at quarterback at the top, a running back in the top three picks, and no offensive lineman until the 13th pick overall.<\/p>\n

1 – Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> – QB Dante Moore – Oregon<\/p>\n

2 – New York Jets – QB Fernando Mendoza – Indiana<\/p>\n

3 – Arizona Cardinals<\/a> – RB Jeremiyah Love – Notre Dame<\/p>\n

4 – Tennessee Titans<\/a> – EDGE Rueben Bain Jr. – Miami<\/p>\n

5 – New York Giants<\/a> – WR Carnell Tate – Ohio State<\/p>\n

6 – Cleveland Browns<\/a> – WR Jordyn Tyson – Arizona State<\/p>\n

7 – Washington Commanders – S Caleb Downs – Ohio State<\/p>\n

8 – New Orleans Saints<\/a> – DT Peter Woods – Clemson<\/p>\n

9 – Kansas City Chiefs – LB Arvell Reese – Ohio State<\/p>\n

10 – Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> – EDGE David Bailey – Texas Tech<\/p>\n

11 – Miami Dolphins<\/a> – CB Jermod McCoy – Tennessee<\/p>\n

12 – Dallas Cowboys – EDGE Keldric Faulk – Auburn<\/p>\n

13 – Los Angeles Rams<\/a> (via Atlanta) – OT Spencer Fano – Utah<\/p>\n

14 – Baltimore Ravens<\/a> – DT Caleb Banks – Florida<\/p>\n

15 – Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> – EDGE Cashius Howell – Texas AM<\/p>\n

16 – New York Jets (via Indianapolis) – CB Mansoor Delane – LSU<\/p>\n

17 – Detroit Lions<\/a> – OT Francis Mauigoa – Miami<\/p>\n

18 – Minnesota Vikings<\/a> – CB Avieon Terrell – Clemson<\/p>\n

Check back next week after the first round of the playoffs, as we add more teams in our mock draft update until the end of the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL regular season is in the books and with it, the first 18 picks in the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[247,265,240,375,390,184,117,210,228,322,62,86,211,1327,227,256,85,54,324,146,113,217,7,519,20842,523,393,147,239,58,216,251,233,259,248,267,246,206,55,56,88,6,15,35196,676,245,264,520,57,525,424,169,1704,397,818,817,829,9,266,819,426,209,250,1703,1223,526,394,51,1707,527,776,524,234,225],"class_list":["post-657972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-draft","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-angeles","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-bay","tag-bengals","tag-big","tag-big-ten-conference-football","tag-browns","tag-buccaneers","tag-cardinals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-conference","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-dolphins","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-hub","tag-las","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-lions","tag-los","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-new-york-giants","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-nfl-hub","tag-orleans","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-raiders","tag-rams","tag-ravens","tag-red","tag-saints","tag-scores","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-steelers","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tech","tag-ten","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-texas","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders-football","tag-titans","tag-u0026","tag-vegas","tag-vikings","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657972","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=657972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}