{"id":752959,"date":"2026-04-25T21:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752959\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:05:13","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-g-anez-cooper-school-round-6-pick-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752959\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft: G Anez Cooper, SCHOOL, Round 6, Pick 188"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the 188th pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the Jets selected Miami G Anez Cooper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Jets moved up to draft Cooper (6-5, 334) following a picks swap exchange with Seattle. Moving up 11 slots in Round 6, GM Darren Mougey sent two picks to Seattle \u2013 No. 199 overall (Round 6) and No. 242 overall (Round 7). The Jets initially acquired the 199th pick used to land Cooper in their first trade-up on Saturday \u2013 a pick swap with the Bengals.<\/p>\n

Cooper played almost his entire collegiate career at RG, making 46 starts there for the Hurricanes. He was stationed next to Francis Mauigoa, the younger brother of Jets LB Kiko Mauigoa<\/a>, who went No. 10 overall to the crosstown Giants. Cooper played more than 3,000 offensive snaps in college and earned All-ACC honors each of the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

At Miami’s pro day, Cooper’s measurables included a 34 1\/4-inch arm length and 84 1\/4-inch wingspan. Cooper, an Alabama native, attended Pleasant Cove HS and was a first-team all-state selection before choosing Miami over multiple other schools.<\/p>\n

Mougey has executed four trades this weekend including three move-ups resulting in the selections of WR Omar Cooper Jr.<\/a> (Rd 1, No. 30), QB Cade Klubnik<\/a> (Rd 4, No. 110) and Cooper (Rd 6, 188).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 188th pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the Jets selected Miami G Anez Cooper. The Jets…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":752960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[309819,301076,7232,308308,72717,1370,50,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-752959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-2026pick188","tag-anez-cooper","tag-draft","tag-draft-tracker-card","tag-eric-allen","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}