{"id":874087,"date":"2026-04-25T04:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874087\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T04:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:12:34","slug":"patriots-draft-tracker-day-2-picks-news-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874087\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots draft tracker: Day 2 picks, news, live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 2 of the NFL Draft is in the books. After picking offensive tackle Caleb Lomu in Round 1, the New England Patriots<\/a> used a pair of picks to select defensive edge Gabe Jacas<\/a> and tight end Eli Raridon on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Recap all the action below.<\/p>\n

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NFL Draft 2026: Day 2<\/p>\n

Friday, April 24, 7 p.m. ET | Acrisure Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA |\u00a0Broadcast information<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Best players available<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Patriots Top 50 Big Board<\/a><\/p>\n

Patriots picks:\u00a0Round 2, Pick 63 | Round 3, Pick 95<\/p>\n

Time per pick:\u00a07 minutes (Round 2) | 5 minutes (Rounds 3-6)<\/p>\n

Pats Pulpit will have you covered with plenty of coverage over the next three days and beyond, so make sure to regularly check back for all the latest news, rumors and analysis. Please also head down to the comment section to use this as your open thread for the day.<\/p>\n

Live tracker<\/p>\n

To be updated after each round.<\/p>\n

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New York Jets: CB D\u2019Angelo Ponds (Indiana)<\/p>\n

New England Patriots: Edge Gabe Jacas (Illinois)<\/p>\n

Cleveland Browns: S Emmanuel McNeil-Warren (Toledo)<\/p>\n

Houston Texans: TE Marlin Klein (Michigan)<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Raiders: Edge Keyron Crawford (Auburn)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Eagles: OT Markel Bell (Miami)<\/p>\n

Chicago Bears: TE Sam Roush (Stanford)<\/p>\n

San Francisco 49ers: Edge Romello Height (Texas Tech)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati Bengals: CB Tacario Davis (Washington)<\/p>\n

New Orleans Saints: TE Oscar Delp (Georgia)<\/p>\n

Miami Dolphins: WR Caleb Douglas (Texas Tech)<\/p>\n

Green Bay Packers: DL Chris McClellan (Missouri)<\/p>\n

Indianapolis Colts: S A.J. Haulcy (LSU)<\/p>\n

Atlanta Falcons: WR Zachariah Branch (Georgia)<\/p>\n

Baltimore Ravens: WR Ja\u2019Kobi Lane (USC)<\/p>\n

Jacksonville Jaguars: DL Albert Regis (Texas A&M)<\/p>\n

Minnesota Vikings: DL Domonique Orange (Iowa State)<\/p>\n

Carolina Panthers: WR Chris Brazzell II (Tennessee)<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: WR Ted Hurst (Georgia State)<\/p>\n

Cleveland Browns: OT Austin Barber (Florida)<\/p>\n

Miami Dolphins: TE Will Kacmarek (Ohio State)<\/p>\n

Jacksonville Jaguars: OG Emmanuel Pregnon (Oregon)<\/p>\n

Chicago Bears: WR Zavion Thomas (LSU)<\/p>\n

San Francisco 49ers: RB Kaelon Black (Indiana)<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Raiders: OL Trey Zuhn III (Texas A&M)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Rams: OT Keagen Trost (Missouri)<\/p>\n

Miami Dolphins: WR Chris Bell (Louisville)<\/p>\n

New England Patriots: TE Eli Raridon (Notre Dame)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Steelers: OT Gennings Dunker (Iowa)<\/p>\n

Minnesota Vikings: OT Caleb Tiernan (Northwestern)<\/p>\n

Minnesota Vikings: S Jakobe Thomas (Miami)<\/p>\n

Seattle Seahawks: CB Julian Neal (Arkansas)<\/p>\n

Jacksonville Jaguars: CB Jalen Huskey (Maryland)<\/p>\n

8:30 p.m. ET: The Patriots trade up again, sending picks No. 63, 131, and 202 to the Chargers for No. 55<\/p>\n

4 p.m. ET: Before we get started, a recap of the Patriots\u2019 capital heading into the second and third rounds.<\/p>\n

Round 1\u00a0\u2022 OT Caleb Lomu (Utah)<\/p>\n

Round 2\u00a0\u2022 Edge Gabe Jacas (Illinois)<\/p>\n

Round 3\u00a0\u2022 TE Eli Raridon (Notre Dame)<\/p>\n

Round 6\u00a0\u2022 Pick 191, 198, 212<\/p>\n

4 p.m. ET: Welcome to today\u2019s live tracker, and thanks for joining us. As always, you will find updates and the eventual draft results above, and the comment section below. Please make yourselves at home and thanks for again spending your draft day with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day 2 of the NFL Draft is in the books. After picking offensive tackle Caleb Lomu in Round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[4955,6959,390,254,117,95586,53,7724,260,2037,391,256,54,257,2184,32201,258,38604,113,1800,32697,25172,7,23926,26718,345,253,392,125,226,110,393,262,58,27002,251,259,1167,249,55,56,2326,2094,6,1446,208,5763,109,520,57,252,261,250,526,394,51,87759,855,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-874087","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-antonio-williams","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-atlanta-falcons","12":"tag-baltimore-ravens","13":"tag-bud-clark","14":"tag-buffalo-bills","15":"tag-caleb-lomu","16":"tag-carolina-panthers","17":"tag-carson-beck","18":"tag-chicago-bears","19":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","20":"tag-cleveland-browns","21":"tag-dallas-cowboys","22":"tag-davison-igbinosun","23":"tag-daylen-everette","24":"tag-denver-broncos","25":"tag-derrick-moore","26":"tag-detroit-lions","27":"tag-drew-allar","28":"tag-eli-raridon","29":"tag-eli-stowers","30":"tag-football","31":"tag-gabe-jacas","32":"tag-germie-bernard","33":"tag-green-bay-packers","34":"tag-houston-texans","35":"tag-indianapolis-colts","36":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","37":"tag-jets","38":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","39":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","40":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","41":"tag-los-angeles-rams","42":"tag-malachi-fields","43":"tag-miami-dolphins","44":"tag-minnesota-vikings","45":"tag-new-england","46":"tag-new-england-patriots","47":"tag-new-orleans-saints","48":"tag-new-york-giants","49":"tag-newengland","50":"tag-newenglandpatriots","51":"tag-nfl","52":"tag-ohio-state","53":"tag-patriots","54":"tag-pennsylvania","55":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","56":"tag-pittsburgh","57":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","58":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","59":"tag-seattle-seahawks","60":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","61":"tag-tennessee","62":"tag-tennessee-titans","63":"tag-texas","64":"tag-treydan-stukes","65":"tag-washington","66":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874087","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=874087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}