{"id":871501,"date":"2026-04-22T00:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871501\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:18:35","slug":"lions-2026-nfl-draft-picks-heres-where-detroit-is-slated-to-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871501\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions 2026 NFL Draft picks: Here’s where Detroit is slated to pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Silva, The Detroit News<\/p>\n

Updated Tue, April 21, 2026 at 10:29 PM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

Detroit Lions<\/a> GM Brad Holmes is poised to enter the 2026 NFL Draft with nine selections.<\/p>\n

The collection of picks includes one in every round except for the third because of last year’s move for wide receiver Isaac TeSlaa. The Lions have six picks after the third round, though only one of those (157th) originally belongs to them. The others were acquired in deals with the Houston Texans (David Montgomery<\/a>), Jacksonville Jaguars (TeSlaa<\/a>) and Cleveland Browns (Za’Darius Smith<\/a>), or a compensatory reward.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind: These are merely the picks the Lions have heading into the draft. Holmes is known for traversing the board, moving up and down to put Detroit in position to select the players he wants.<\/p>\n

Round 4: 128th (via Texans)<\/p>\n

Round 5: 181st (compensatory)<\/p>\n

Round 6: 205th (via Jaguars)<\/p>\n

Round 6: 213th (via Seattle Seahawks through Jaguars)<\/p>\n

Round 7: 222nd (via Browns)<\/p>\n

rsilva@detroitnews.com<\/p>\n

@rich_silva18<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: Detroit Lions have picks in every round of the draft except the third<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Silva, The Detroit News Updated Tue, April 21, 2026 at 10:29 PM UTC Detroit Lions GM Brad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[4955,3337,54,597,146,113,2506,7,253,842,125,147,6,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-871501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-brad-holmes","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-david-montgomery","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-detroit-lions","14":"tag-detroitlions","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-houston-texans","17":"tag-isaac-teslaa","18":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","19":"tag-lions","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116445495848677016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871501","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=871501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}