We’re two weeks away from the 2026 NFL Draft. Are you ready?
If you’re like me, you’ve been ready for at least a month, maybe more. As soon as the NFL Combine is over and done with and I’ve had a chance to digest the results, I’m ready to get on to the main event. Nobody cares what my takes on draft picks are (though I’m happy to supply them — aren’t we all?), and at the end of the day, I’m just some guy. I don’t run an NFL team, and Brian Gutekunst isn’t taking my calls. None of my NFL Draft thoughts matter at all.
So here we are, playing out the string until things get underway in Pittsburgh. It’ll be a slow Thursday night with the Packers not having a first round pick, but that’s the price you pay for adding someone like Micah Parsons to your roster. I’d still make that move. Would you?
This is the time when the pre-draft process starts to get a little weird, too. I suspect most teams have the vast majority of their work already done, and so what we actually start to see now is a campaign of misinformation. We’ll see fake objections or fake-ish controversies start to filter out into the media. You’re going to see articles in the next few days that boil down to “is this guy who’s clearly good at football actually good at football?” and we’ll probably have some mild to moderate dirt pop up on some guys that teams secretly want to fall down the draft board. Yeah, that’s playing dirty, but these teams are playing to win, and they’ve convinced themselves that’s sometimes what it takes.
In any case, the draft can’t get here soon enough. Bring it on.
I’m leading with this link just because it’s a fun concept. What would it look like for everyone to trade?
People really don’t know what to do with the Packers, but as I wrote yesterday, that’s bringing us generally better draft coverage.
Packers News is a bit late on this, but this is the last we’ll hear from anyone in a position of power on the Packers until the draft is over.
Edge rush depth is always good to have, so that might be a priority for the Packers this year.
The Packers are set at the top of the depth chart, but offseason turnover could have them looking for more safety pieces.
Does this make her the Tomb Raider raider?