{"id":209960,"date":"2026-04-26T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:45:10","slug":"signings-following-the-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209960\/","title":{"rendered":"Signings following the 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated April 25, 2026, 8:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

While the picks are all done at the 2026 NFL Draft, the fun (or at least additions) still roll on.<\/p>\n

The New York Jets<\/a> made noise at this year’s draft, starting with three first-round picks in edge David Bailey, tight end Kenyon Sadiq and wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr.<\/p>\n

The draft saw the Jets make eight total selections<\/a> after a few trades made by general manager Darren Mougey. The draft class ended up being split right down the middle with four selections being players on offense and the other half being on defense.<\/p>\n

However, many more rookies will join those draft picks. Players who went undrafted at the 2026 draft are free to sign with any team they desire once the event ends. Which UDFAs landed in New York?<\/p>\n

Here is Jets Wire’s<\/a> full tracker of UDFA signings following the 2026 draft:<\/p>\n

Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a>OL Xavier Hill, ColoradoWR Caullin Lacy, LouisvilleLS Garrison Grimes, LSU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated April 25, 2026, 8:00 p.m. ET While the picks are all done at the 2026 NFL Draft,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[679,9,11,10,1673,1674,27744,948,1675,947,691,19369,6568,949,682],"class_list":{"0":"post-209960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-sstssportsnfljets","13":"tag-sstsnjets","14":"tag-tag2026-nfl-draft","15":"tag-tagamerican-football","16":"tag-tagnew-york-jets","17":"tag-tagnfl-hub","18":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","19":"tag-tagsec-conference-football","20":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","21":"tag-tagsports-news","22":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209960","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=209960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}