{"id":187882,"date":"2026-05-09T07:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187882\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:33:16","slug":"rookie-draft-pick-numbers-are-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187882\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie draft pick numbers are revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Steelers have released the jersey numbers for the 2026 draft class, numbers they will first wear when they take the field for the team’s rookie minicamp this weekend<\/p>\n

First-round draft pick Max Iheacachor will wear No. 71, which was already announced after he was drafted.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh-area native Eli Heindenreich, the Steelers seventh-round pick out of the Naval Academy, will wear No. 29.<\/p>\n

— Order Max Iheanachor Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n

— Order Germie Bernard Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n

— Order Drew Allar Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n

— Order Eli Heidenreich Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n

Below is the numerical list of the numbers the rookie draft picks will be wearing<\/p>\n

16 \u2013 Drew Allar \u2013 QB *<\/p>\n

17 \u2013 Germie Bernard – WR *<\/p>\n

23 \u2013 Daylen Everette \u2013 CB *<\/p>\n

28 \u2013 Robert Spears-Jennings \u2013 S *<\/p>\n

29 \u2013 Eli Heidenreich \u2013 RB\/WR<\/p>\n

37 \u2013 Riley Nowakowski \u2013 FB *<\/p>\n

42 \u2013 Kaden Wetjen \u2013 WR *<\/p>\n

71 \u2013 Max Iheanachor \u2013 OT<\/p>\n

73 \u2013 Gennings Dunker \u2013 G *<\/p>\n

96 \u2013 Gabriel Rubio \u2013 DE *<\/p>\n

* – Jersey number subject to change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers have released the jersey numbers for the 2026 draft class, numbers they will first wear when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50259,17866,70688,564,563,73,75,74,565],"class_list":["post-187882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-2026-nfl-draft-in-pittsburgh","tag-draft","tag-draft-central-2026-news","tag-featured","tag-non-sponsored","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sights-and-sounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187882","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=187882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}