2026 Annual Draft Contest

[Brady85-23]

Ok scratch that last one. 86 it

Malachi lawrence
Caleb banks
Oscar delp
Jude Bowry
Charles Demmings
Robert spears jennings
Micah Morris
Jack kelly
Eli Heidenreich
Haynes king
Jack Stonehouse

 

[manxman2601]

Ok scratch that last one. 86 it

Malachi lawrence
Caleb banks
Oscar delp
Jude Bowry
Charles Demmings
Robert spears jennings
Micah Morris
Jack kelly
Eli Heidenreich
Haynes king
Jack Stonehouse

The Stonehouse pick might be a sneakily good one.

 

[manxman2601]

Final final one!

Max Iheanachor
Cashius Howell
Gabe Jacas
Jimmy Rolder
Keyron Crawford
Oscar Delp
Will Kacmarek
Jeremiah Wright
Nate Boerkircher
Khalil Jacobs
Trey Moore

 

[Clonamery]

The Caffeinated Edition:

Max Iheanachor
Jalen Farmer
Cashius Howell (**** no!)
Gabe Jacas
Keyron Crawford
Trey Moore
Cashius Howell (I'm disgusted with myself)
Will Kacmarek
Nate Boerkircher
Cashius Howell (What's wrong with me? Don't say it!)
Khalil Jacobs
Bryce Boettcher
Daylen Everette
Cashius Howell (Just kill me now!)
Cyrus Allen

 

[manxman2601]

The Caffeinated Edition:

Max Iheanachor
Jalen Farmer
Cashius Howell (**** no!)
Gabe Jacas
Keyron Crawford
Trey Moore
Cashius Howell (I'm disgusted with myself)
Will Kacmarek
Nate Boerkircher
Cashius Howell (What's wrong with me? Don't say it!)
Khalil Jacobs
Bryce Boettcher
Daylen Everette
Cashius Howell (Just kill me now!)
Cyrus Allen

Well now you're just tempting fate. Very irresponsible.

 

[Clonamery]

Well now you're just tempting fate. Very irresponsible.

Fate and I have never been eye to eye.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

CJ Allen, LB Georgia
Jacob Rodriguez, LB Texas Tech
Josiah Trotter, LB Missouri
Max Llewellen, Edge, Iowa
Michael Taffe, S Texas
Oscar Delp, TE Georgia
Bill Schrauth, G Notre Dame
George Cumbs, DE Florida
Ja'Kobi Lane, WR USC
Max Klare, TE Ohio State
Hezekiah Masses CB, Cal

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

Out of curiosity how many correct is usually the winner?
I would guess hitting on 3 of 11 would be really hard.

2 is usually the winning number

 

[pazrul72]

I'm going to start by saying I'm not the draft junkie that half of you guys are but the conversations and information has been excellent. I have what I feel is a good idea of how the draft is stacked and where guys I want are going to be drafted....at least for the first couple rounds. One of the things that bugs me is people expecting to get a day 1 starter at pick #31 just because it's a first rounder. Or that they have to have a starter level impact in 2026.

Depending on the draft there are only 10-20 guys like that and they go at the top. By the time we are picking you are getting someone missing something, either production, character, age, traits, or upside. Obviously you need a balance of all of those but I personally rate traits and upside as higher then production when I'm drafting. I'm absolutely fine with any rookie getting in some occasional reps and situationally getting in the game. A first round OT that comes in for jumbo formations or to give old man Moses some rest in a blow out is a perfectly valid use of resources, IF in 2027 they grow into a plus level starter.

The situation the players are drafted into is so much more important then where they are in college. Scheme, coaching, and patience for growth at the end of the day I believe are the key decieding factors on if a player is going to be succesful. Oh and buy in, are they going to continue to give everything they have to improving once they made it and got the bag. There is a universe where Tom Brady was drafted by Cleveland or Arizona and we have never heard of him. I wonder how many other could have been amazing guys we never got to see. Anyway all that to lead into my dream draft I would be doing back flips over if we got it

#31 Max Iheanachor OT
#63 Dani Dennis-Sutton Edge
#95 Oscar Delp TE
#125 Kyle Louis LB
#131 Sam Roush TE
#171 Emmanuel Pregnon G
#191 Cole Wisniewski S
#198 Kaden Wetjen WR
#202 Ephesians Prysock CB
#212 Adam Randall RB
#247 Trey Moore Edge

 

[manxman2601]

One of the things that bugs me is people expecting to get a day 1 starter at pick #31 just because it's a first rounder. Or that they have to have a starter level impact in 2026.

Depending on the draft there are only 10-20 guys like that and they go at the top. By the time we are picking you are getting someone missing something, either production, character, age, traits, or upside.

Yup. We're basically picking from the early-middle prospects graded as 2nd rounders. Especially this year where there are so few first round grades. Still, in the words of Shawshank, "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies".

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

Yup. We're basically picking from the early-middle prospects graded as 2nd rounders. Especially this year where there are so few eith first round grades. Still, in the words of Shawshank, "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies".

Love a good Andy Dufresne quote

 

[Clonamery]

Yup. We're basically picking from the early-middle prospects graded as 2nd rounders. Especially this year where there are so few first round grades. Still, in the words of Shawshank, "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies".

We've had stars from the 6th & 7th rounds and good players from the UDFA chaos.

 

[OldEngland]

Yup. 3 is normally enough. I have a feeling it was won with 4 last year.

I think I know this as I put up the original post for the 2024 contest when patsfansfromoversea broke the record with 4. At the time I went back through Patchick's old annual draft contest posts to try and check if it was a record or not (and I've just quickly double checked).

What I found was only 1 or 2 picks right was the winner for every year except 2010, 2019, 2024 and 2025.

In 2010, 8 posters got 3 correct! On her results post Patchick said 3 correct had not ever been done before in all the previous contests she had run.

After that only 2s and 1s correct again, until in 2019 oceansizer equalled the record with 3.

In 2024 Patsfanfromoversea broke the record with 4 picks right, and two others got 3. In 2025 two posters got 3 picks correct.

To my knowledge, 3 picks or more has only been achieved 14 times, and only in 4 drafts 2010, 2019, 2024 and 2025. Every other year, 1 or 2 picks correct is the max.

 

[zimmy]

Kayden McDonald
Gabe Jacas
R Mason Thomas
Eli Stowers
Eli Raridon
Keylan Rutledge
Bud Clark
Kaelon Black
Keyshaun Elliott
Jake Golday
Jaishawn Barham

I thought I could edit my original post but turns out I can’t.

Final version

Kayden McDonald
Cashius Howell
R Mason Thomas
Malachi Lawrence
Eli Raridon
Keyshaun Elliott
Kaelon Black
Jake Golday
Oscar Delp
Max Klare
Bryce Boettcher

 

[borisman]

Antonio Williams WR
Max Iheanachor OT
Blake Miller OT
Charles Demmings CB
Sam Roush TE
Eli Raridon TE
Oscar Delp TE
TJ Parker EDGE
Malachi Lawrence EDGE
Gabe Jacas EDGE
Cash Howell EDGE

 

[pazrul72]

Off to a rousing start thus far. Unlike the past two years where Maye and Campbell were practically the free space in bingo no one predicted Lomu, probably cuz no one thought he'd fall or as a LT was a fit.

 

[mayoclinic]

Mark Morse and Borisman with 2 correct. Zimmy had 2 correct, but took Gabe Jacas out of his final list.

I was 0 for 11.

Gabe Jacas, Eli Raridon, and Karon Prunty were the only 3 players correctly projected.

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

Mark Morse and Borisman with 2 correct. Zimmy had 2 correct, but took Gabe Jacas out of his final list.

I was 0 for 11.

Gabe Jacas, Eli Raridon, and Karon Prunty were the only 3 players correctly projected.

I was perfect, missed everyone!

 

[mayoclinic]

Just like me!

 

[jboston19]

I got Raridon. Even one is rare for me.