{"id":747369,"date":"2026-02-12T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/747369\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:25:14","slug":"bills-first-round-pick-set-for-no-26-overall-in-the-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/747369\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills first round pick set for No. 26 overall in the 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bills&#8217; 2025-26 season ended in the playoffs. They lost to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Divisional Round. Due to their 12-5 regular season record and where they finished in the playoffs, they were awarded the 26th overall pick. The Chicago Bears, who ended their season 11-6, precede Buffalo with the 25th overall selection. The Bills pick just before the San Francisco 49ers, who also finished 12-5 in 2025 and lost their NFC Divisional Round game.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo&#8217;s most recent No. 26 selection was in 2006 when it drafted defensive tackle John McCargo. It also had the 26thoverall pick in 1973, 1984, 1991 and 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NFL Draft takes place Thursday, April 23 through Saturday, April 25 in Pittsburgh, Penn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bills&#8217; 2025-26 season ended in the playoffs. They lost to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Divisional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,199,6,107318],"class_list":{"0":"post-747369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-news-announcements","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-pre-draft-coverage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116058595396268699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747369","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=747369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}