NFL Draft rankings for top-100 players available in 2026

The 2026 NFL Draft has finally arrived, and it will begin in just a few hours.

So, this is the perfect time to drop our top 100 players.

James Dator and Mark Schofield have poured through the film, looked at all the available testing, and put together this list of the top players in the draft. As we will discuss in a moment, there are factors that could see players come off the board much earlier — or much later — than we have them ranked here. Positional needs, team depth charts, medical testing, and more will all play a role starting later tonight.

For now, the rankings followed by some thoughts on these players, and the class overall.

Rank	Player	Position	School	Position Rank
1	Arvell Reese	LB	Ohio State	LB1
2	Jeremiyah Love	RB	Notre Dame	RB1
3	Caleb Downs	S	Ohio State	S1
4	Sonny Styles	LB	Ohio State	LB2
5	Mansoor Delane	CB	LSU	CB1
6	Fernando Mendoza	QB	Indiana	QB1
7	Rueben Bain Jr.	EDGE	Miami	EDGE1
8	Francis Mauigoa	OT	Miami	OT1
9	Carnell Tate	WR	Ohio State	WR1
10	David Bailey	EDGE	Texas Tech	EDGE2
11	Spencer Fano	OT	Utah	OT2
12	Olaivavega Ioane	IOL	Penn State	IOL1
13	Makai Lemon	WR	USC	WR2
14	Jermod McCoy	CB	Tennessee	CB2
15	Kenyon Sadiq	TE	Oregon	TE1
16	Kadyn Proctor	OT	Alabama	OT3
17	Monroe Freeling	OT	Georgia	OT4
18	Jordyn Tyson	WR	Arizona State	WR3
19	Keldric Faulk	EDGE	Auburn	EDGE3
20	Denzel Boston	WR	Washington	WR4
21	Dillon Thieneman	S	Oregon	S2
22	Avieon Terrell	CB	Clemson	CB3
23	KC Concepcion	WR	Texas A&M	WR5
24	Omar Cooper JR	WR	Indiana	WR6
25	Caleb Lomu	OT	Utah	OT5
26	Kayden McDonald	DT	Ohio State	DT1
27	Akheem Mesidor	EDGE	Miami	EDGE4
28	Emmanuel McNeil-Warren	S	Toledo	S3
29	Colton Hood	CB	Tennessee	CB4
30	Peter Woods	DT	Clemson	DT2
31	Max Iheanachor	OT	Arizona State	OT6
32	Zion Young	EDGE	Missouri	EDGE5
33	Cashius Howell	EDGE	Texas A&M	EDGE6
34	CJ Allen	LB	Georgia	LB3
35	Jacob Rodriguez	LB	Texas Tech	LB4
36	Blake Miller	OT	Clemson	OT7
37	Ty Simpson	QB	Alabama	QB2
38	Chris Johnson	CB	San Diego State	CB5
39	Caleb Banks	DT	Florida	DT3
40	Anthony Hill Jr.	LB	Texas	LB5
41	Germie Bernard	WR	Alabama	WR7
42	Malachi Lawrence	EDGE	UCF	EDGE7
43	T.J. Parker	EDGE	Clemson	EDGE8
44	Emmanuel Pregnon	IOL	Oregon	IOL2
45	Lee Hunter	DT	Texas Tech	DT4
46	Brandon Cisse	CB	South Carolina	CB6
47	Jadarian Price	RB	Notre Dame	RB2
48	Keionte Scott	CB	Miami	CB7
49	Chase Bisontis	IOL	Texas A&M	IOL3
50	Jake Golday	LB	Cincinnati	LB6
51	Christian Miller	DT	Georgia	DT4
52	Gabe Jacas	EDGE	Illinois	EDGE9
53	Eli Stowers	TE	Vanderbilt	TE2
54	R Mason Thomas	EDGE	Oklahoma	EDGE10
55	D’Angelo Ponds	CB	Indiana	CB8
56	A.J. Haulcy	S	LSU	S4
57	Treydan Stukes	CB	Arizona State	CB9
58	Chris Brazell	WR	Tennessee	WR8
59	Zachariah Branch	WR	Georgia	WR9
60	Keylan Rutledge	IOL	Georgia Tech	IOL3
61	Chris Bell	WR	Louisville	WR10
62	Derrick Moore	EDGE	Michigan	EDGE11
63	Max Klare	TE	Ohio State	TE3
64	Josiah Trotter	LB	Missouti	LB7
65	Connor Lew	IOL	Auburn	IOL4
66	Caleb Tiernan	OT	Northwestern	OT8
67	Domonique Orange	DT	Iowa State	DT5
68	Mike Washington Jr	RB	Arkansas	RB3
69	Antonio Williams	WR	Clemson	WR11
70	Keith Abney II	CB	Arizona State	CB10
71	Gennings Dunker	OT	Iowa	OT9
72	Dani Dennis-Sutton	EDGE	Penn State	EDGE12
73	Gracen Holton	DT	Oklahoma	DT6
74	Romello Height	EDGE	Texas Tech	EDGE13
75	Kyle Louis	LB	Pitt	LB8
76	Davison Igbinosun	CB	Ohio State	CB11
77	Malachi Fields	WR	Notre Dame	WR12
78	Darrell Jackson Jr.	DT	Florida State	DT7
79	Elijah Sarratt	WR	Indiana	WR13
80	Sam Hecht	IOL	Kansas State	IOL5
81	Joshua Josephs	EDGE	Tennessee	EDGE14
82	Ted Hurst	WR	Georgia State	WR14
83	Garrett Nussmeier	QB	LSU	QB3
84	Jonah Coleman	RB	Washington	RB4
85	Kamari Ramsey	S	USC	S4
86	Carson Beck	QB	Miami	QB4
87	Skyler Bell	WR	UConn	WR15
88	Dametrious Crownover	OT	Texas A&M	OT10
89	Keyron Crawford	EDGE	Auburn	EDGE15
90	Oscar Delp	TE	Georgia	TE4
91	Jaishawn Barham	LB	Michigan	LB9
92	Markel Bell	OT	Miami	OT11
93	Daylen Everette	CB	Georgia	CB12
94	Devin Moore	CB	Florida	CB13
95	Bryce Lance	WR	North Dakota State	WR16
96	Taylen Green	QB	Arkansas	QB4
97	Genesis Smith	S	Arizona	S5
98	Julian Neal	CB	Arkansas	CB14
99	Bud Clark	S	TCU	S6
100	Jalon Kilgore	CB	South Carolina	CB15

Fernando Mendoza is going first but is ranked sixth?

Yes, Fernando Mendoza is going first tonight. There is a lot to love about Mendoza the prospect, and the person.

But while he will be the first player picked, that does not make him the top-graded player in the class. Looking at prospects in a vacuum, we have Arvell Reese, Jeremiyah Love, Caleb Downs, Sonny Styles, and cornerback Mansoor Delane graded higher.

Positional value, and a lack of other true top options at quarterback, will see Mendoza go first. And he is a very good prospect!

Just not the top player on our board.

Why is David Bailey at 10?

Opinions are mixed on David Bailey, who may very well go off the board at No. 2 to the New York Jets.

Take what Jon Ledyard, who knows pass rushers as well as anyone, had to say about him on SB Nation recently:

Bailey has the length, size and explosiveness you look for in a top pass rusher, erupting off the ball to win the edge repeatedly at the college level. Things will get harder in the NFL, where better tackles will force him to play with more nuance and consistency as a rusher. If Bailey improves his pass rush plan execution and efficiency against better competition, he’ll be in the conversation for best edge in the class despite his struggles at the point-of-attack in the run game.

Ledyard has Bailey ranked as his fourth-best EDGE in this class, while we have him at EDGE2 behind Rueben Bain Jr. Studying Bailey we saw a bit more promise to his game, and perhaps more from a pass rush plan standpoint. Some of his 14 sacks were due to scheme, and being put in a wide-9 alignment to win with pure speed off the edge, which will get tougher against top-flight offensive tackles in the NFL.

But some of his sacks did see him counter with a second move, or win to the inside with a spin move that he had set up earlier in the game.

We might not be as high on him as the Jets may be, but we still see the potential.

Is Jermod McCoy still a top-15 talent?

The reports coming out about Tennessee cornerback Jermod McCoy, and the status of his knee, are not good. Beyond the surgically repaired ACL is news that doctors used a “bone plug” to repair a cartilage defect in his knee, that will require a second surgery. If this is starting to feel to you like the fall of Will Johnson a year ago, you are not alone.

But based on purely McCoy’s 2024 film … this is a top prospect in the class.

Again, we are not doctors. This is where a team will need to trust their medical personnel and make a tough decision.

Where is the depth of this class?

If you need help in the trenches, whether on offense or on defense, this is a good year.

Of our top 50 players, ten are offensive linemen — seven offensive tackles and three interior tackles. There are also eight EDGE players, along with four defensive tackles, in our top 50. If you expand the trenches a bit to include off-ball linebackers, there are another six players in the top 50 at that position.

We should note that we are including Arvell Reese as a linebacker here for ranking purposes, even though he might be more of an EDGE in the NFL.

That is where the depth is, along the line of scrimmage. If you need a quarterback this year, for example, you might want to kick that decision to next year, unless you are the Las Vegas Raiders.

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