{"id":208054,"date":"2026-04-24T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208054\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:37:08","slug":"full-first-round-pick-analysis-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208054\/","title":{"rendered":"Full first-round pick analysis, trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 NFL Draft is here \u2014 and the first round is in the books.<\/p>\n<p>QB Fernando Mendoza <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/15\/sports\/fernando-mendoza-raiders-presumed-no-1-pick-must-earn-starting-job\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was picked No. 1 by the Raiders<\/a>, while the Jets took linebacker David Bailey at No. 2 and tight end Kenyon Sadiq at No. 16. The Giants took Arvell Reese at No. 5 and offensive lineman Francis Mauigoa at No. 10, the pick they got for trading Dexter Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets later traded back into the first round to take wideout Omar Cooper Jr. at No. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Follow The Post\u2019s live updates from the 2026 NFL Draft for a complete list of first-round picks and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NFL Draft is here \u2014 and the first round is in the books. QB Fernando Mendoza&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47939,47940,34004,2679,5309,9,2683,11,430,10,22,12258,46065,319],"class_list":["post-208054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-arvell-reese","tag-caleb-downs","tag-fernando-mendoza","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-live-blogs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-jets","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-nfl-draft-2026","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}