2026 NFL Draft Notes: Rumors and rumblings around the league, including Jets and Giants
Here's a compilation of rumors, rumblings, and tidbits on how teams view players: who’s rising, who’s falling, and who might land where Thursday night in the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft.
Here’s the thing about the NFL Draft : No matter how strong your relationship is inside the building of the team you cover, they are not going to tell you what they’re going to do. Ever. Draft intel is guarded as closely as anything in the sport.
No one wants leaks for fear another team might target the same player. But teams are just as information-starved as reporters. They crave intel to help project what might happen Thursday night.
The longer you cover the NFL, the more people you meet. Your network of coaches, executives, scouts and assistants grows across the league. The benefit: While no one wants to discuss their own plans, they will share what they’re hearing about others.
Hear the same thing twice, and there might be something to it. A perfect example: Before the 2025 draft, a coach called and said he’d heard through his own channels that the quarterback the Giants coveted most was Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart . Then-coach Brian Daboll loved him and was pushing hard to get him.
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