Seattle vs New England in Super Bowl LX Hold Final Selections
NFL Draft 2026 – ‘The Raiders are ‘On the Clock’!
Jets, Cardinals, Titans & Giants, Hold Top 5 Selections
2026 NFL Draft Selection Order
The NFL Conference championship games have finalized the top 30 selections in the frist round of the NFL Draft 2026. It will be Seattle vs New England in Super Bowl LX after winning confereence titles. Neither team even made the playoffs after the 2024 season.
With the closure of the regular season schedule and the early playoff games, the NFL Draft order has been established for the top 30 non-playoff teams. Four teams hold a 3-14 record with the Raiders landing the 1st overall selection on the weaker strength of schedule. The Jets, Cardinals and Titans hold the next three selections with each club at 3-14. These clubs started multiple QBs in 2025 after several injuries and poor performances forced weekly changes at the position. Of the top five teams, only the Giants with rookie Jaxson Dart and Titans with rookie QB Cam Ward have bona fide starters set for the coming years.
The Giants are next at the 5th pick at 4-13 and within reach of trading up for an earlier selection. It is the usual suspects in the top ten with several pretenders like the Chiefs and Bengals both falling below the .500 mark with weak 2025 performances.
The bottom 12 playoff positions will be decided by playoffs results. The Super Bowl teams will hold the 31st and 32nd positions. The strength of schedule % will determine the final positions of all tied teams. The SOS is based on all of each team’s opponents record. Each succeeding round, the tied teams will rotate up within their tied bracket.
First Round Draft Order
# Team W-L record
1 Las Vegas 3-14
2 NY Jets 3-14
3 Arizona 3-14
4 Tennessee 3-14
5 NY Giants 4-13
6 Cleveland 5-12
7 Washington 5-12
8 New Orleans 6-11
9 Kansas City 6-11
10 Cincinnati 6-11
11 Miami 7-10
12 Dallas 7-9-1
13 LA Rams (Atlanta) 8-9
14 Baltimore 8-9
15 Tampa Bay 8-9
16 NY Jets (Indianapolis) 8-9
17 Detroit 9-8
18 Minnesota 9-8
19 Carolina 8-10
20 Dallas (Green Bay) 9-8-1
Playoff Teams
21 Pittsburgh 10-7
22 LA Chargers 11-6
23 Philadelphia 11-6
24 San Francisco 12-5
25 Chicago 12-6
26 Houston 12-5
27 Cleveland (Jacksonville) 13-5
28 Buffalo 13-5
29 LA Rams 13-5
30 Denver 14-3
Super Bowl Opponents
31 New England 14-3
32 Seattle 14-3
All ties in record are broken by current strength of schedule. Then head to head determines order.
Atlanta, Green Bay, Jacksonville and Indianapolis all currently do not have 1st-round selections from prior deals.
March 11, 2026
The 2026 League Year and Free agency signing period begins at 4:00 p.m. ET.
Trading period for 2026 begins at 4:00 p.m. ET, after expiration of all 2025 contracts
Playoffs – Divisional, Conference & Super Bowl games determine final 8 positions
A teams’ opponent’s W-L record will determine all tie situations. Teams that are still tied will flip though none necessary this year. Playoff teams will shuffle according to their postseason results to determine the final top 32 selections. Super Bowl game will determine final two positions.
Team tie-breaking procedure for the NFL Draft
If two or more clubs are tied in the selection order, the strength-of-schedule tie breaker is applied, subject to the following exceptions for playoff clubs: The Super Bowl winner is last and the Super Bowl loser next-to-last. Any non-Super Bowl playoff club involved in a tie shall be assigned priority within its segment below that of non-playoff clubs and in the order that the playoff clubs exited from the playoffs. Within a tied segment a playoff club that loses in the Wild-Card game will have priority over a playoff club that loses in the Divisional playoff game that in turn will have priority over a club that loses in the Conference Championship game. If two tied clubs exited the playoffs in the same round, the tie is broken by strength of schedule. If any ties cannot be broken by strength of schedule, the divisional or conference tie breakers, when applicable, are applied. Any ties that still exist are broken by a coin flip.
