Projected first-round picks Carnell Tate, Jeremiyah Love, Sonny Styles and 13 other college prospects have accepted invites to attend the 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
The list includes eight defensive players, including four pass rushers and three defensive backs, and eight offensive players. Texas Tech edge rusher David Bailey will be joined by Miami’s Rueben Bain jr. and Ohio State’s Arvell Reese, all of whom have been connected to the Commanders in mock drafts. Many analysts expect all three players to be top 10 picks with Reese and Bailey potentially going as high as No. 2 overall to the New York Jets.<\/p>\n
Love, who has also been connected to the Commanders in mock drafts, is considered the best offensive player in the draft, although there is no consensus on where he will be taken, other than that he is unlikely to fall outside of the top 10. Ohio State’s Tate, Arizona State’s Jordyn Tyson and USC’s Makai Lemon sit atop a deep receiver class.<\/p>\n
Miami’s Francis Mauigoa and Alabama’s Kadyn Proctor are the only offensive linemen who have accepted invites to the draft.<\/p>\n
The Big Ten leads college football with six invites, although five of them are from Ohio State.<\/p>\n
Here’s the full list of who will be at the draft on April 23.<\/p>\n
EDGE David Bailey, Texas Tech
\nDE Rueben Bain Jr., Miami
\nCB Mansoor Delane, LSU
\nS Caleb Downs, Ohio State
\nDE Keldric Faulk, Auburn
\nCB Colton Hood, Tennessee
\nWR Makai Lemon, USC
\nRB Jeremiyah Love, Notre Dame
\nT Francis Mauigoa, Miami
\nDT Kayden McDonald, Ohio State
\nT Kadyn Proctor, Alabama
\nEDGE Arvell Reese, Ohio State
\nQB Ty Simpson, Alabama
\nLB Sonny Styles, Ohio State
\nWR Carnell Tate, Ohio State
\nWR Jordyn Tyson, Arizona State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Projected first-round picks Carnell Tate, Jeremiyah Love, Sonny Styles and 13 other college prospects have accepted invites to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25262,73,75,74,35287],"class_list":["post-161914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-football-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-subsection-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}