"The jig is up, the news is out. They've finally found me."
There will be extra helpings of "Renegade," the Styx classic that has become the fourth-quarter anthem of the Pittsburgh Steelers, on Day 2 of the 2026 NFL Draft, which is being staged in the Steel City. After selecting Arizona State OT Max Iheanachor during Thursday night's first round, the Steelers are scheduled to pick four times Friday, thrice in the third round. Even if the players coming off the board in Rounds 2 and 3 aren't exactly of the household variety, expect a little extra buzz amid record-setting attendance from the locals and the thousands upon thousands of fans who have descended on Western Pennsylvania.
USA TODAY Sports will analyze all 68 picks Friday night as they come off the board, so stick around:
It’s never too early to give a microwaved assessment of something that probably can’t be fairly judged until at least 2029 – but we (prematurely) labeled the winners and losers of the 2026 draft’s first round.
With little consensus as to how things might shake out when the selections started rolling in on Thursday, the evening provoked strong reactions and some red ink along the way from Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz's digital pen. Here are USA TODAY Sports' instant grades for every pick from the first round.
Check to see who still remains from our big board that now extends to 200 players and will be updated as picks come off the board (listed with their original rankings).
The 2026 draft will be broadcast on NFL Network, ESPN and ABC and streamed on NFL+ and ESPN+ over the next three days:
Saturday, April 25 (Rounds 4-7 start 12 p.m. ET)
The asterisk because I couldn't limit this list of names, which will take you down memory lane, to just 50. One reason? Rewind four years to the 2021 draft, supposedly chock full of quarterback talent ... that mostly has yet to materialize. Yet one of the league's prominent QBs also escaped the list this year.
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NFL draft tracker 2026: Dissecting ever second-round, third-round pick