PITTSBURGH (WNDU) – Former Notre Dame tight end Eli Raridon has been drafted by the New England Patriots with the 95th overall pick in the third round of the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
Raridon caught 48 passes for 623 yards and three touchdowns for his Fighting Irish career. 32 of those receptions and 482 yards came during his final season in 2025.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-6, 245-pound tight end is the fourth Notre Dame player to be picked in the 2026 NFL draft after Jeremiyah Love<\/a> (3rd overall, Arizona Cardinals), Jadarian Price<\/a> (32nd overall, Seattle Seahawks) and Malachi Fields<\/a> (74th overall, New York Giants).<\/p>\n The Patriots are defending AFC champions after going 14-3 last season. They fell to the Seahawks in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n Stay up to date on local news with WNDU<\/a> on-air and online. Be sure to download the 16 News Now App<\/a> and follow our YouTube<\/a> page as we continue to bring you the latest news coverage.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WNDU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (WNDU) – Former Notre Dame tight end Eli Raridon has been drafted by the New England Patriots…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[4955,2384,32697,1403,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,15,1401,1418,208,3865,21363],"class_list":{"0":"post-874051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-drafted","10":"tag-eli-raridon","11":"tag-fighting-irish","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-new-england","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-newengland","16":"tag-newenglandpatriots","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-notre-dame","20":"tag-notre-dame-football","21":"tag-patriots","22":"tag-tight-end","23":"tag-wndu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874051","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=874051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}