The NFL announced on Thursday the names of 42 players who have been granted special eligibility for the 2026 NFL Draft and 21 underclassmen who have fulfilled their degree requirements with college football eligibility remaining and are also eligible for selection in the draft. The 2026 draft is scheduled to be held April 23-25 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Sixteen players applied for special eligibility prior to the newly instituted early “soft” deadline of Jan. 5, which was added to assist players and all-star game organizers in the planning and invitation process. Twenty-six additional players submitted their petitions prior to the traditional deadline of Jan. 14 to apply for special eligibility for the 2026 draft. This list does not include players that are playing in the FBS National Championship Game on Jan. 19. For those players, a “Championship” deadline of Jan. 23 has been added.<\/p>\n
Each of the 42 players listed below have met the league’s three-year eligibility rule and have renounced their college football eligibility by submitting written notification to the league office on or before the Jan. 14 deadline. Consequently, they are eligible for selection:<\/p>\n
Keith Abney, DB, Arizona State
\nC.J. Allen, LB, Georgia
\nAaron Anderson, WR, LSU
\nChase Bisontis, G, Texas A&M
\nDenzel Boston, WR, Washington
\nZachariah Branch, WR, Georgia
\nArion Carter, LB, Tennessee
\nKage Casey, T, Boise State
\nBrandon Cisse, DB, South Carolina
\nK.C. Concepcion, WR, Texas A&M
\nDylan Devezin, RB, Notre Dame
\nCaleb Downs, DB, Ohio State
\nCharles Du, DB, Notre Dame
\nLogan Fano, DE, Utah
\nSpencer Fano, T, Utah
\nJalen Farmer, G, Kentucky
\nKeldric Faulk, DE, Auburn
\nMonroe Freeling, T, Georgia
\nAnthony Hill, LB, Texas
\nColton Hood, DB, Tennessee
\nOlaivavega Ioane, G, Penn State
\nEmmett Johnson, RB, Nebraska
\nMax Klare, TE, Ohio State
\nJa’Kobi Lane, WR, USC
\nMakai Lemon, WR, USC
\nCaleb Lomu, T, Utah
\nKyle Louis, LB, Pittsburgh
\nJeremiyah Love, RB, Notre Dame
\nJermod McCoy, DB, Tennessee
\nKayden McDonald, DT, Ohio State
\nMalik Muhammad, DB, Texas
\nKamari Ramsey, DB, USC
\nArvell Reese, LB, Ohio State
\nJimmy Rolder, LB, Michigan
\nKenyon Sadiq, TE, Oregon
\nGenesis Smith, DB, Arizona
\nCarnell Tate, WR, Ohio State
\nAvieon Terrell, DB, Clemson
\nDillon Thieneman, DB, Oregon
\nJosiah Trotter, LB, Missouri
\nJordyn Tyson, WR, Arizona State
\nTaurean York, LB, Texas A&M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL announced on Thursday the names of 42 players who have been granted special eligibility for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[68019,4687,8305,399,398,396,397,6257,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-409702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-analysis","10":"tag-draft","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-no-minute","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}