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2026 Nfl Draft Order Updated First Round Picks After Week 14 Msn

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2026 nfl draft order updated first round picks after week 14 msn

For half of the 32 NFL franchises and their respective fanbases, Week 18 of the regular season isn't very meaningful. Sixteen teams entered the week eliminated from playoff contention; 12 of the 14 playoff berths were decided. Four teams were in play for those final two postseason spots. Instead, a week of divisional games was meaningful to eliminated teams in one specific way: the 2026 NFL Draft in April. Week 18 will solidify the selections for the first half of every round in the upcoming draft. This upcoming class has standout talent at linebacker, defensive line, interior offensive line and wide receiver.

Teams looking for reinforcements at those positions will be in luck over the seven rounds of drafting from Pittsburgh. After their loss in Week 17, the Las Vegas Raiders enter Week 18 as the favorite to land the No. 1 pick. But will they end the day with it? Week 18's outcomes will set the first 18 selections of the 2026 NFL Draft. Here's how things look as Sunday results finish up:

This is a look at the first-round order for the 2026 NFL Draft heading into the Wild Card Round of the playoffs. The order is determined by record, using strength of schedule as the first tiebreaker (click here to see a full list of the draft-order tiebreakers). Keep in mind -- teams that made the playoffs are marked as PL (short for playoffs) in the order below. The draft order for playoff teams is determined by the results of postseason play. Arrows reflect movement from last week's order. While there’s a long way to go between now and draft day, it certainly feels like a fait accompli that the Raiders will pick a quarterback in the first round for the first time...

The Jets tore things down to the studs at the trade deadline and now have a pile of draft assets to help them reset, including four of the top 50 picks. It looks messy in Arizona after the team’s collapse following a 2-0 start to the season. The first priority has to be charting a path forward at the quarterback position, with Kyler Murray’s future murky. The Raiders have lost 10 straight games, including in Week 17 game against the Giants. Steve Marcus / Getty Images Whether or not it was an official attempt to “tank,” the Las Vegas Raiders didn’t put up much of a fight in a 34-10 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday.

That result puts the Raiders firmly in line to land the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. With one week remaining in the regular season, we actually know the top seven teams in the draft order, although there still could be some shuffling among that group. The order for picks 19-32 will be decided by playoff results — teams eliminated in the wild-card round will be placed into slots 19-24; divisional-round losers will hold picks 25-28, and so on. (Current playoff teams are designated by asterisks below.) The first tiebreaker for draft positioning is strength of schedule, with the team that’s faced an easier schedule receiving the higher pick. Much has been made about the NFL playoff picture, but there is also a race to the bottom in the battle for the No.

1 pick. The Las Vegas Raiders officially won the race to the bottom and will have the No. 1 pick. Las Vegas is in a four-way tie atop the NFL draft order with the New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals and Tennessee Titans. All four teams finished at 3-14, but the Raiders own the tiebreaker as a result of having an easier strength of schedule. Here’s a look at the current NFL draft order.

We will continue to update the list of picks as the Week 18 games are completed. The countdown is officially on for the 2026 NFL draft, which starts on April 23, in Pittsburgh. As a reminder, each playoff team’s draft order is determined by the postseason results. Here’s a look at the current NFL draft order for all the first-round picks in 2026, per Tankathon. Following the New York Giants' upset win over the Dallas Cowboys in Week 18, the Raiders officially secured the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.

The Raiders were able to secure the No. 1 overall pick despite defeating the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday because they had the tiebreaker over the three other three-win teams, holding the worst strength of schedule of the group. Following the Raiders, the New York Jets will have the No. 2 overall pick. The Arizona Cardinals have the No. 3 pick.

The Tennessee Titans and Giants round out the top five. In what would've been viewed as a major surprise in the preseason, the Washington Commanders, Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals will each hold a top-10 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft going into... The first 18 picks of the 2026 NFL Draft have now been determined. Here's a closer look at how the draft order looks ahead of the start of the playoffs. [NFL Draft Declarations Tracker: The Latest College Stars Headed to the NFL] Week 14 saw a shake-up at the top of the projected 2026 NFL Draft order.

When the dust settled on the early window of games, the Tennessee Titans had picked up a win over the Cleveland Browns, improving the team to a 2-11 record and dropped them in the... The New York Giants, despite being on a bye in Week 14, moved into the projected No. 1 spot. The Titans' victory also allowed the Las Vegas Raiders, who fell to the Broncos in Week 14, to move up to the projected No. 2 selection. Rounding out the projected top five are the Titans, Browns and New Orleans Saints, who also won this week.

Here's an updated look at the 2026 NFL Draft order after Week 14, led by the Giants and Raiders. MORE: Where Rueben Bain, Fernando Mendoza and more rank on TSN's latest mock draft It is with great sadness to report the NFL is in the final quarter of its regular season. A month from today, it will be over. For fans of several teams, the season has been over for quite some time and the days until the offseason were being counted. In today's thought exercise, CBSSports.com takes a look at the new draft order and examines which teams may be in the market for a quarterback.

No trades are projected because it makes little sense until the draft order is finalized. Neither the Giants nor the Titans need a quarterback, but they are the gatekeepers to a team potentially moving up to take one of those players. As a result of this being, potentially, my last mock draft before the regular season finale, let's explore the remaining games that will weigh heavily in determining the top-10 overall. Here are the games involving two teams with four wins or less entering Week 15: As a reminder, there are four teams without a first round pick: the Jaguars, Falcons, Colts and Packers. A pick will be made for each of those teams after the first-round mock draft.

To set the stage, here are the current odds to be the No. 1 overall pick: 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.

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