{"id":695949,"date":"2026-01-22T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/695949\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:15:40","slug":"which-colts-pick-is-being-sent-to-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/695949\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Colts&#8217; pick is being sent to Jets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 21, 2026, 10:40 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">With the 2026 draft order set for most of the NFL, what selection will the <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> be sending to the New York Jets?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Prior to this season&#8217;s trade deadline, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" data-autotag=\"d3fda36a-3eb5-4700-8763-caba831c06ae\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Colts<\/a> sent their 2026 and 2027 first-round draft picks, along with wide receiver AD Mitchell, to the New York Jets in exchange for All-Pro cornerback Sauce Gardner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I would still do the move again today,&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2026\/01\/08\/chris-ballard-evaluates-colts-decision-trade-sauce-gardner\/88086707007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0said GM Chris Ballard<\/a>\u00a0after the season. &#8220;Those guys are not easy to find.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So after the Colts finished 8-9 this season, Indianapolis will no longer have the 16th overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>What picks do the Colts have in the 2026 NFL draft?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Colts&#8217; first selection will come in Round 2 at pick No. 47 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It does put a premium on making sure those second, third, fourth round picks end up being really good,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2026\/01\/08\/chris-ballard-evaluates-colts-decision-trade-sauce-gardner\/88086707007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GM Chris Ballard said<\/a>\u00a0of not having a first-round pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In total, the Colts currently have five draft picks in 2026. Along with trading away their first-rounder, GM Chris Ballard also traded the Colts&#8217; sixth-round draft pick as part of the trade that brought Mekhi Blackmon over from Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Round 2, pick 47Round 3, pick 78Round 4, pick 113Round 5, pick 154Round 7, pick 230<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Colts are projected to receive two compensatory picks in the sixth and seventh rounds. This would bring the Colts&#8217; total number of selections up to seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 21, 2026, 10:40 a.m. ET With the 2026 draft order set for most of the NFL, what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[95878,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,49915,95900,95882,95903,100272,95896,95888,95895,95899,96176,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-695949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcolts","16":"tag-sstsncolts","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","19":"tag-tagmekhi-blackmon","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagsauce-gardner","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115937996148832976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695949","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=695949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}