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2026 Nfl Draft First Round Draft Order Set For Non Playoff Teams

Bonisiwe Shabane
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2026 nfl draft first round draft order set for non playoff teams

With the NFL regular season in the books and the playoff teams set, the first 18 picks in the first round of the 2026 NFL draft are set. The Las Vegas Raiders currently hold the top pick after finishing with a 3-14 record. In fact, the top four picks all finished at 3-14 so the league had to go to tiebreakers to sort out the order. Here is your first-round draft order for the non-playoff teams. The Las Vegas Raiders secured the No. 1 overall pick after going 3-14.

Behind them, there are more than a dozen teams looking to change their fortunes heading into next season. Fourteen teams are heading to the postseason, but 18 can start preparing for the offseason. Sunday's Week 18 games wrapped up a hectic regular season -- and the action won't stop any time soon with the playoff starting next weekend. But while the postseason seeds were set, so too were the first 18 picks of the 2026 NFL Draft. The Las Vegas Raiders secured the No. 1 overall pick after going 3-14.

Behind them, there are more than a dozen teams looking to change their fortunes heading into next season. Paul Finebaum and Stephen A. Smith explain why they are currently favoring Indiana's Fernando Mendoza over Oregon's Dante Moore as the top pick in the draft. (2:49) With the 2025 NFL regular season coming to a close, the first 18 draft order slots for the 2026 NFL draft are set. The Las Vegas Raiders will have the No.

1 selection, followed by the New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals. The rest of the order will shake out over the course of the NFL playoffs, ending with Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, on Feb. 8. The draft will be held in Pittsburgh for the first time. Round 1 will be on April 23, Rounds 2 and 3 are April 24, and Rounds 4 through 7 close it out on April 25. Plenty of trades have already gone down to shake up the order, and the Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville Jaguars and Indianapolis Colts will not be picking in the first round.

The Los Angeles Rams have the Falcons' selection, the Dallas Cowboys have the Packers' selection, the Jets have the Colts' selection and the Cleveland Browns have the Jaguars' selection. For picks for the non-playoff teams, our NFL Nation reporters broke down each team's biggest need going into the offseason. We also provided the projected order for pick Nos. 19-32 via ESPN's Football Power Index, and we will continue to update this page as those picks are set over the coming weeks. Here is the draft order for 2026. See more on the NFL draft: Mock drafts | Rankings

The Las Vegas Raiders have clinched the first overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft, by virtue of having the easiest schedule of the four teams that finished tied with the league’s worst record... Here’s how the draft order looks after Week 18: 13. Falcons (traded first-round pick to Rams) 16. Colts (traded first-round pick to Jets)

20. Packers (traded first-round pick to Cowboys) 29. Jaguars (traded first-round pick to Browns) NEW YORK — Jan. 5, 2026 — The Las Vegas Raiders hold the No.

1 pick in the 2026 National Football League Draft, which is scheduled for April 23-25 in Pittsburgh. The tentative order of the first round was announced today by the NFL, subject to the results of the playoffs. The draft order is determined by the following procedures: (A) The winner of the Super Bowl game selects last and the loser selects next-to-last in all rounds, regardless of the record of the clubs in the regular season. (B) The losers of the Conference Championship games select 29th and 30th in all rounds, according to the reverse order of their standing. The Las Vegas Raiders are officially on the clock.

Las Vegas locked up the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft on Sunday after the New York Giants won their fourth game. The Raiders finished at 3-14 alongside three other teams, but they landed the top pick due to the strength of schedule tiebreaker. Las Vegas and the New York Jets, who will pick second, are both in the quarterback market. The Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Titans and New York Giants round out the top five. Six teams will see their hopes of winning Super Bowl 60 come to an end during the NFL's wild-card weekend.

Their fan bases will likely cope with those postseason losses by assessing how their teams can improve next season. That will include looking ahead to the 2026 NFL Draft, where the full draft order is coming into clearer focus. The first 18 picks of the draft were already entering wild-card weekend. By the end of the "Monday Night Football" game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Houston Texans, the first 24 picks will be locked in, though they will be subject to change based on any... Much is still to be determined about the 2026 NFL Draft. Many believe that Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Fernando Mendoza will be the No.

1 overall pick, but after that, things remain wide-open, especially as Oregon quarterback Dante Moore's future remains in flux. That will leave many NFL fan bases daydreaming about the possibility of landing a star player like Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love, USC wide receiver Makai Lemon or a defensive stud like Ohio...

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