{"id":589626,"date":"2026-04-08T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589626\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:50:09","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-10-year-history-of-the-no-22-overall-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589626\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft: 10 year history of the No. 22 overall pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chargers are currently slated to pick 22nd overall in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>As the Bolts prepare for their next No. 22 selection, here is a look back at the players taken in this slot over the past ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2024: CB Quinyon Mitchell &#8211; Philadelphia Eagles<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2023: WR Zay Flowers &#8211; Baltimore Ravens<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2022: LB Quay Walker &#8211; Green Bay Packers<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2021: CB Caleb Farley &#8211; Tennessee Titans<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020: WR Justin Jefferson &#8211; Minnesota Vikings<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2019: OT Andre Dillard &#8211; Philadelphia Eagles<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2018: LB Rashaan Evans &#8211; Tennessee Titans<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2017: EDGE Charles Harris &#8211; Miami Dolphins<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2016: WR Josh Doctson &#8211; Washington Commanders<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chargers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chargerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chargers\/2026\/04\/07\/chargers-nfl-draft-selection-omarion-hampton-quinyon-mitchell-zay-flowers\/89511676007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Every NFL player drafted No. 22 overall since 2016;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Every NFL player drafted No. 22 overall since 2016&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Every NFL player drafted No. 22 overall since 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers are currently slated to pick 22nd overall in the 2026 NFL Draft. As the Bolts prepare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[515,224658,1742,49,224655,48,224656,1730,224657,27240,2210,1720,1726,514,18080,1747,12117,32334,224654,82,1741,28815,1758,29899],"class_list":{"0":"post-589626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-andre-dillard","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-caleb-farley","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-charles-harris","15":"tag-green-bay-packers","16":"tag-josh-doctson","17":"tag-justin-jefferson","18":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","19":"tag-miami-dolphins","20":"tag-minnesota-vikings","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-omarion-hampton","23":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","24":"tag-quay-walker","25":"tag-quinyon-mitchell","26":"tag-rashaan-evans","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-tennessee-titans","29":"tag-the-chargers","30":"tag-washington-commanders","31":"tag-zay-flowers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}