Closing out the first half of my annual my divisional draft & roster review series today, we’ll be talking about the Bills, Dolphins, Patriots & Jets today – discussing every single player each team drafted and how it fits with the different stages of their roster constructions.
Opening week two of our divisional draft & roster review series with the Cowboys, Giants, Eagles and Commanders! We discuss every single player they selected in the draft, how they fit into those rosters and each team’s class as part of their offseason approaches!
I went through the entire 2026 NFL schedule and here are my top 25 games on the slate! 📋
I didn’t include any week 17/18 matchups without fixed starting times or knowing the implications they might have. And I could’ve thrown in a few more divisional matchups (no singular NFC South game quite made it, but the division should be more interesting overall).
Switching over to the AFC side for the first time, we’re analyzing the draft classes and roster construction strategies of all 32 NFL franchises over the next month, where today we’re focusing on the Ravens, Bengals, Browns and Steelers!
We kick off our divisional draft & roster review series with the NFC North. Over the next month, we put the spotlight on all 32 franchises and how they’ve approached this offseason, through the lens of the NFL Draft!
About a week-and-a-half away from the actual draft, I went back to one of my favorite exercises of the year, highlighting ten names who weren’t among the 257 that actually got a call over the course of those three days, but could be meaningful players in the NFL.
These aren’t necessarily the guys I had ranked highest in my individual rankings, but rather considering the landing spots and how these names within the depth chart potentially, who I believe have a real path to playing snaps this season. Expecting any of them to start at any point as rookies would be unrealistic, but recently nearly two UDFAs made it through final roster cuts for all 32 teams (57 each these last two years).
Here are a few I believe could be next:
The 2026 NFL Draft is in the books, and it’s time review everything that happened. We all knew Fernando Mendoza would be the first name off the board, but then we had multiple surprise picks over the first half of night one especially. Day two was marked by a couple of head-scratching tight-end selections and only one running back hearing his name called (and certainly not the one we expected). And thankfully, it only took for the first selection of Saturday for the slide of potential top-ten pick Tennessee cornerback Jermod McCoy to finally come to end, due to his uncertain medical situation, before LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier only just got drafted at the very end, as the tenth quarterback off the board, in a weak class otherwise.
As always, I will recap the action with four categories – the biggest winners and losers, steals and reaches of the draft. These opinions are based on my personal evaluations, in combination with consensus boards, analyzing roster construction and the situations of veteran players, who may be significantly affected by the picks that were made. Players who reportedly fell largely due to injury concerns may only be limited as honorable mentions in the “steals” category.
Let’s dive in:
Just four days away from night one, it’s time for my ultimate mock draft! I predict picks 1-32, including some fun trades and discussions, and then make one selection for all six teams who currently don’t own a first-round pick!
Now that we’ve broken down every single position group in detail, it’s time to put it all together and present my big board for the upcoming draft, listing the top 150 prospects. As I’ve said the whole way, these are purely based on my personal evaluations, without taking schematic fits and team-specific needs into account. I also don’t have insight into medical reports or background character checks. I did try to weigh current injuries here, as opposed to the grades I put on the players previously.
As per usual, wide receivers are at the top of the list in terms of the total names who made it, with 20 guys making the cut, but edge rushers aren’t far behind with 16-17 total. Teams wanting to bolster their offensive backfields will be a little disappointed, with only six quarterbacks and ten running backs sneaking in here. You can find detailed scouting reports on nearly all of these names as you go through the different positional rankings.
(* denotes players with imminent injury concerns)
Here it is:
We’ve reached the final piece of my annual positional draft rankings series, and of course it’s the one that gets discussed the most – quarterbacks. Unfortunately, I can’t say that we’ve saved the best for last here, as this group certainly doesn’t match up to 2024 or really even last year – in large part because so many young passers we expected to come out actually decided to go back to college – but there are some interesting discussions to be had.
I believe we have one quarterback that is worthy of being the first guy off the board in many drafts. Then I personally have a two-man tier in the second round, before we get to a pretty substantial drop-off. There may only be two or three other names that ultimately make it inside my personal top 100, and then, I ended up with a couple of likely surprises to close out this list.
Let’s get into it one more time:
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