{"id":870624,"date":"2026-04-20T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870624\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:30:31","slug":"full-2026-nfl-draft-order-all-7-rounds-and-257-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870624\/","title":{"rendered":"Full 2026 NFL Draft order: All 7 rounds and 257 picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Round<\/p>\n

The NFL Draft opens Thursday night, April 23, in Pittsburgh. Stacy Revere \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

By The Athletic NFL Staff<\/p>\n

April 20, 2026 8:00 am EDT<\/p>\n

The 2026 NFL Draft<\/a> opens with Round 1 on Thursday night, April 23, in Pittsburgh. Rounds 2 and 3 will follow on Friday night, then Rounds 4-7 on Saturday afternoon. In all, 257 players will hear their names called during the event.<\/p>\n

The Las Vegas Raiders own the top pick, which they\u2019re likely to use on Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza<\/a>, while the Denver Broncos (at No. 257) are set to select this year\u2019s Mr. Irrelevant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The full, updated 2026 NFL Draft order:<\/p>\n

(Note: Compensatory picks are designated by an asterisk. Draft order has been updated as of April 19.)<\/p>\n

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Connections: Sports Edition<\/p>\n

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Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL Draft opens Thursday night, April 23, in Pittsburgh. Stacy Revere \/ Getty Images By The Athletic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-870624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-falcons","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116437282922904771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870624","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=870624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}