2026 NFL Draft First Round Order

The New York Jets officially hold the No. 2 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, giving the franchise a premium position at the top of the board heading into April. The league announced the tentative first-round draft order on Monday, with final positioning still subject to the outcome of the postseason. After a difficult season, the Jets find themselves in a position to add a potential franchise-changing talent as the draft heads to Pittsburgh on April 23–25.

NEW YORK — Jan. 5, 2026 — The Las Vegas Raiders hold the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL 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.

(C)           The losers of the Divisional Playoffs select 25th through 28th in all rounds, according to the reverse order of their standing.

(D)           The losers of the Wild Card games select 19th through 24th in all rounds, according to the reverse order of their standing.

(E)            Clubs not participating in the playoffs select in the first through 18th positions in all rounds, according to the reverse order of their standing.

If, after all the foregoing procedures have been applied, ties still exist in any grouping except (A) above, such ties shall be broken by figuring the aggregate won-lost-tied percentage of each involved club’s regular season opponents and awarding preferential selection order to the club which faced the schedule of teams with the lowest aggregate won-lost-tied percentage.

If ties still exist between teams in the same division or the same conference, the divisional or conference tie-breaking method is used, whichever is applicable.

If ties still exist, the procedures for breaking ties for teams of different conferences shall be applied.

Clubs involved in two-club ties will alternate positions from round-to-round. In ties that involve three or more clubs, the club at the top of a tied segment in a given round will move to the bottom of the segment for the next round, while all other clubs in the segment move up one position. This rotation continues throughout the Draft.

2026 FIRST-ROUND DRAFT ORDER

#	Team	Win	Loss	Tie	Winning Percentage	Win	Loss	Tie	Strength of Schedule
1.	Las Vegas Raiders	3	14	0	.176	155	133	1	.538
2.	New York Jets	3	14	0	.176	159	129	1	.552
3.	Arizona Cardinals	3	14	0	.176	164	123	2	.571
4.	Tennessee Titans	3	14	0	.176	166	123	0	.574
5.	New York Giants	4	13	0	.235	150	136	3	.524
6.	Cleveland Browns	5	12	0	.294	140	148	1	.486
7.	Washington Commanders	5	12	0	.294	145	141	3	.507
8.	New Orleans Saints	6	11	0	.353	143	146	0	.495
9.	Kansas City Chiefs	6	11	0	.353	148	140	1	.514
10.	Cincinnati Bengals	6	11	0	.353	150	138	1	.521
11.	Miami Dolphins	7	10	0	.412	141	148	0	.488
12.	Dallas Cowboys	7	9	1	.441	126	162	1	.438
13.	Atlanta Falcons (traded to L.A. Rams)	8	9	0	.471	143	146	0	.495
14.	Baltimore Ravens	8	9	0	.471	146	142	1	.507
15.	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	8	9	0	.471	153	136	0	.529
16.	Indianapolis Colts (traded to N.Y. Jets)	8	9	0	.471	156	133	0	.540
17.	Detroit Lions	9	8	0	.529	140	146	3	.490
18.	Minnesota Vikings	9	8	0	.529	147	139	3	.514
19.	Carolina Panthers #	8	9	0	.471	150	137	2	.522
20.	Green Bay Packers # (traded to Dallas)	9	7	1	.559	139	149	1	.483
21.	Pittsburgh Steelers #	10	7	0	.588	145	143	1	.503
22.	Chicago Bears #	11	6	0	.647	131	155	3	.458
23.	Los Angeles Chargers #	11	6	0	.647	135	153	1	.469
24.	Philadelphia Eagles #	11	6	0	.647	136	150	3	.476
25.	Buffalo Bills #	12	5	0	.706	136	153	0	.471
26.	San Francisco 49ers #	12	5	0	.706	144	145	0	.498
27.	Houston Texans #	12	5	0	.706	151	138	0	.522
28.	Los Angeles Rams #	12	5	0	.706	152	137	0	.526
29.	Jacksonville Jaguars # (traded to Cleveland)	13	4	0	.765	138	151	0	.478
30.	New England Patriots #	14	3	0	.824	113	176	0	.391
31.	Denver Broncos #	14	3	0	.824	121	166	2	.422
32.	Seattle Seahawks #	14	3	0	.824	144	145	0	.498

# – Subject to Playoffs

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