The 2026 NFL Draft is in the books.<\/p>\n
Starting with Fernando Mendoza at No. 1 overall to the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>, and ending with linebacker Red Murdock, the No. 257 overall selection to the Denver Broncos<\/a>, it was three days of fun.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Cleveland Browns<\/a> general manager Andrew Berry stayed busy by making several trades over the draft\u2019s seven rounds, but ultimately ended up selecting what is being viewed as a promising draft class:<\/p>\n Offensive tackle Spencer Fano<\/p>\n Wide receiver KC Concepcion<\/p>\n Wide receiver Denzel Boston<\/p>\n Safety Emmanuel McNeil-Warren<\/p>\n Offensive tackle Austin Barber<\/p>\n That is a lot of new faces for the coaches to work with, and the selection of Green adds yet another layer to the quarterback position.<\/p>\n OK, let\u2019s jump in with today\u2019s edition of the Sunday Dawg Chow.<\/p>\n Dawgs By NatureCleveland BrownsNFL<\/p>\n Jermod McCoy isn\u2019t taking his opportunity for granted (raiders.com)<\/a> \u2013 Jermod McCoy isn\u2019t crying over spilled milk. The Tennessee<\/a> cornerback was projected to be first-round pick in this draft, but a torn ACL kept him out for the entirety of the 2025 season. Two successful seasons at Oregon State and Tennessee, consisting of six interceptions and 16 pass deflections, didn\u2019t appear to be enough to outweigh knee health concerns, instead falling in the lap of the Las Vegas Raiders with the No. 101 overall pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NFL Draft is in the books. Starting with Fernando Mendoza at No. 1 overall to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2054],"tags":[4955,228,86,65969,85,54,2337,258,563,1033,7,7987,37434,562,2780,570,393,7211,6,15,533,22842,17,426,20703,526,222,582,7872,764],"class_list":{"0":"post-875105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-browns","11":"tag-chris-pokorny","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-browns","14":"tag-clevelandbrowns","15":"tag-denver-broncos","16":"tag-deshaun-watson","17":"tag-dillon-gabriel","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-greg-newsome","20":"tag-jared-mueller","21":"tag-joe-flacco","22":"tag-justin-jefferson","23":"tag-kenny-pickett","24":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","25":"tag-lsu-tigers","26":"tag-nfl","27":"tag-nfl-draft","28":"tag-nico-collins","29":"tag-parker-brailsford","30":"tag-shedeur-sanders","31":"tag-steelers","32":"tag-taylen-green","33":"tag-tennessee","34":"tag-texans","35":"tag-the-browns","36":"tag-tyson-campbell","37":"tag-tytus-howard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116470654260643648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875105","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=875105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}