Expectations for 2026 NFL Draft: 'There'll probably be a lot of trades.' Here's who could be on move before and afterward
Yahoo Sports reached out to a handful of personnel execs seeking what vets or trends could come into play over the remainder of this draft cycle and in the weeks that follow it.
Latest NFL mock draft | Big Boards: Yahoo consensus Top 75 • Nate Tice • Charles McDonald | Draft guide Sometimes, the lack of star power becomes the starring quality in the NFL Draft. It invites chaos — and draft chaos is great entertainment. A year ago, we had a five-round wait for quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who was taken off the board by a Cleveland Browns team that had already taken another rookie QB two rounds earlier.
In 2016, it was the bombshell Laremy Tunsil gas mask bong video that dropped as the draft began. In 2019, the crowd and television audience was stunned when the New York Giants improbably took Daniel Jones with the sixth overall pick. And of course, some of the recent veteran trades either before or during the draft — like wideout Stefon Diggs getting flipped to the Buffalo Bills by the Minnesota Vikings in 2020, cornerback Jalen Ramsey going from the Jacksonville Jaguars to the Los Angeles Rams in 2019, and Tunsil again popping up, this time in a deal that sent him from the Miami Dolphins to the Houston Texans that same year.
Big players. Big draft picks. Big intrigue.
And next week might be shaping up in similar fashion. As Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach framed it during his pre-draft meeting with the media Thursday: “It should be an entertaining night. There’ll probably be a lot of trades.
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