New England was slated to make its first selection at No. 31 after reaching the Super Bowl in February, the Patriots\u2019 lowest first-round pick since 2019, when the team took N\u2019Keal Harry at No. 32 after winning Super Bowl LIII two months earlier.<\/p>\n
The Patriots ended up making their first selection a little earlier than expected, moving up from No. 31 to No. 28 to take Utah left tackle Caleb Lomu.<\/p>\n
The Patriots parted with one of their 11 picks to move up for Lomu, sending their extra fourth-rounder \u2014 No. 125, acquired in a draft-day trade last year \u2014 to the Bills to move up three spots. Along with their own selections in each of the seven rounds, New England also has three extra sixth-round picks accumulated through trading Joshua Uche, Keion White, and Kyle Dugger.<\/p>\n
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Here are all of the Patriots\u2019 picks in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
NFL Draft 2026: New England Patriots picks<\/p>\n
Round 1, No. 28: Caleb Lomu, OT, Utah<\/p>\n
Lomu, standing at 6-foot-6, 313 pounds, started 12 games for Utah last season. He made the Big 12 All-Conference First Team. During his career with the Utes, he appeared in 27 games with 24 starts, all at left tackle.<\/p>\n
Round 2, No. 55: Gabe Jacas, DE, Illinois<\/p>\n
Jacas, a 6-foot-3, 260 pound edge rusher, has an acumen for getting after the quarterback. The second-team All-Big 10 selection finished seventh in the FBS with 11 sacks and led the Fighting Illini with 13.5 tackles for loss.<\/p>\n
Round 3: Pick 95<\/p>\n
Round 4: None<\/p>\n
Round 5: Pick 171<\/p>\n
Round 6: Pick 191 <\/p>\n
Round 6: Pick 198 <\/p>\n
Round 6: Pick 212<\/p>\n
Round 7: Pick 247<\/p>\n
Amin Touri can be reached at amin.touri@globe.com<\/a>. Cam Kerry can be reached at cam.kerry@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New England was slated to make its first selection at No. 31 after reaching the Super Bowl in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-874019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-newengland","12":"tag-newenglandpatriots","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116462986451580808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874019","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=874019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}