{"id":628522,"date":"2026-04-24T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628522\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:54:11","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-day-2-live-updates-round-2-3-picks-rumors-best-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628522\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft Day 2 live updates: Round 2-3 picks, rumors, best available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were a total of eight teams that didn&#8217;t make a first round pick on Thursday: The Bengals, Bills, Broncos, Colts, Falcons, Jaguars, Packers and 49ers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All eight of those teams will be officially joining the draft tonight when they make their first pick. To help you prepare for each team&#8217;s first pick, JP Acosta came with some possible targets that each team could have tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>49ers<br \/>First pick: 33rd overall<br \/>Possible targets: R Mason Thomas (Oklahoma), Cashius Howell (Texas A&amp;M), Jaishawn Barham (Michigan)<\/p>\n<p>Bills<br \/>First pick: 35th overall<br \/>Possible targets: Kayden McDonald (Ohio State), Lee Hunter (Texas Tech), Christen Miller (Georgia)<\/p>\n<p>Bengals<br \/>First pick:\u00a041st overall<br \/>Possible targets: CJ Allen (Georgia), Jake Golday (Cincinnati), Jacob Rodriguez (Texas Tech), Keyshaun Elliott (Arizona State)<\/p>\n<p>Colts<br \/>First pick: 47th overall<br \/>Possible targets: Josiah Trotter (Missouri), Jake Golday (Cincinnati), Kyle Louis (Pitt), Keyshaun Elliott (Arizona State)<\/p>\n<p>Falcons<br \/>First pick: 48th overall<br \/>Possible targets: R Mason Thomas (Oklahoma), Jaishawn Barham (Michigan), Derrick Moore (Michigan), Romello Height (Texas Tech)<\/p>\n<p>Packers<br \/>First pick: 52nd overall<br \/>Possible targets: Domonique Orange (Iowa State), Lee Hunter (Texas Tech), Christen Miller (Georgia)<\/p>\n<p>Jaguars<br \/>First pick: 56th overall<br \/>Possible targets: Treydan Stukes (Arizona), Genesis Smith (Arizona), AJ Haulcy (LSU), Bud Clark (TCU)<\/p>\n<p>Broncos<br \/>First pick: 62nd overall<br \/>Possible targets: Jonah Coleman (Washington), Mike Washington Jr (Arkansas)<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos will be the final team to make a pick and that will come near the end of the second round. Acosta has a few more possible targets for each team and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/draft\/news\/2026-nfl-draft-day-2-needs-targets-teams-without-first-round-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">check out those names here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were a total of eight teams that didn&#8217;t make a first round pick on Thursday: The Bengals,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[17076,64,63,631,304651,1238,1234,304646,1256,1246,1240,1233,1239,1249,1242,593,258218,304649,147331,257508,304650,1260,304647,304648,1262,85,1272],"class_list":["post-628522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-best-available-nfl-draft","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-day-2-nfl-draft","tag-denver-broncos","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft-analysis","tag-nfl-draft-live-updates","tag-nfl-draft-picks","tag-nfl-draft-rumors","tag-nfl-draft-tracker","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-round-2-nfl-draft","tag-round-3-nfl-draft","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}