{"id":873684,"date":"2026-04-24T17:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:33:16","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-first-round-picks-grades-as-fernando-mendoza-goes-no-1-jeremiyah-love-heads-to-cardinals-rams-take-ty-simpson-at-no-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873684\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft first-round picks, grades as Fernando Mendoza goes No. 1, Jeremiyah Love heads to Cardinals, Rams take Ty Simpson at No. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out our first-round draft grades here<\/a>, and the best available remaining players here<\/a> heading into Day 2.<\/p>\n

No. 1, Las Vegas Raiders: Fernando Mendoza, QB, Indiana<\/a>
No. 2, New York Jets: David Bailey, EDGE, Texas Tech<\/a>
No. 3, Arizona Cardinals: Jeremiyah Love, RB, Notre Dame<\/a>
No. 4, Tennessee Titans: Carnell Tate, WR, Ohio State<\/a>
No. 5, New York Giants: Arvell Reese, EDGE, Ohio State<\/a>
No. 6, Kansas City Chiefs: Mansoor Delane, CB, LSU<\/a>
No. 7, Washington Commanders: Sonny Styles, LB, Ohio State
No. 8, New Orleans Saints: Jordyn Tyson, WR, Arizona State<\/a>
No. 9, Cleveland Browns: Spencer Fano, OT, Utah
No. 10, New York Giants: Francis Mauigoa, OT, Miami
No. 11, Dallas Cowboys: Caleb Downs, S, Ohio State<\/a>
No. 12, Miami Dolphins: Kadyn Proctor, OT, Alabama<\/a>
No. 13, Los Angeles Rams: Ty Simpson, QB, Alabama<\/a>
No. 14, Baltimore Ravens: Olaivavega Ioane, G, Penn State
No. 15, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Rueben Bain Jr., EDGE, Miami<\/a>
No. 16, New York Jets: Kenyon Sadiq, TE, Oregon
No. 17, Detroit Lions: Blake Miller, OT, Clemson
No. 18, Minnesota Vikings: Caleb Banks, DT, Florida
No. 19, Carolina Panthers: Monroe Freeling, OT, Georgia
No. 20, Philadelphia Eagles: Makai Lemon, WR, USC<\/a>
No. 21, Pittsburgh Steelers: Max Iheanachor, OT, Arizona State
No. 22, Los Angeles Chargers: Akeem Mesidor, EDGE, Miami
No. 23, Dallas Cowboys: Malachi Lawrence, EDGE, UCF
No. 24, Cleveland Browns: KC Concepcion, WR, Texas A&M
No. 25, Chicago Bears: Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon
No. 26, Houston Texans: Keylan Rutledge, G, Georgia Tech
No. 27, Miami Dolphins: Chris Johnson, CB, San Diego State
No. 28, New England Patriots: Caleb Lomu, OT, Utah<\/a>
No. 29, Kansas City Chiefs: Peter Woods, DT, Clemson
No. 30, New York Jets: Omar Cooper Jr., WR, Indiana
No. 31, Tennessee Titans: Keldric Faulk, EDGE, Auburn
No. 32, Seattle Seahawks: Jadarian Price, RB, Notre Dame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Check out our first-round draft grades here, and the best available remaining players here heading into Day 2.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4955,53,613,346,3619,7,1744,1014,32,6,242,525,424,20708],"class_list":{"0":"post-873684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-buffalo-bills","10":"tag-caleb-downs","11":"tag-chiefs","12":"tag-fernando-mendoza","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-las-vegas","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-matthew-stafford","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-philadelphia","19":"tag-raiders","20":"tag-rams","21":"tag-ty-simpson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116460886646770261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873684","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=873684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}