{"id":754004,"date":"2026-04-26T08:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/754004\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:18:16","slug":"houston-texans-2026-draft-picks-complete-list-by-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/754004\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Texans 2026 Draft Picks: Complete List by Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story has been updated following Day 3 of the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Texans 2026 Draft Picks<\/p>\n<p>As of April 25, 2026 at 5:45pm CT<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st \u2013 26 (BUF) \u2013 G Keylan Rutledge (George Tech)<\/li>\n<li>2nd \u2013 36 (LV) \u2013 DT Kayden McDonald (Ohio State)<\/li>\n<li>2nd \u2013 59 \u2013 TE Marlin Klein (Michigan)<\/li>\n<li>4th \u2013 106 (WAS) \u2013 G Febechi Nwaiwu (Oklahoma)<\/li>\n<li>4th \u2013 123 (LAC) \u2013 LB Wade Woodaz (Clemson)<\/li>\n<li>5th \u2013 141 (CLE, LV) \u2013 S Kamari Ramsey (USC)<\/li>\n<li>7th \u2013 243 (SF) \u2013 LB AIden Fisher (Indiana)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Counting the number of Texans draft picks is like evaluating Houston weather \u2013 it could change fast.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans entered day one of the 2026 draft with eight selections, five of them acquired via trades. The first round pick was at 28th, thanks to a 12-win season and playoff game win. But Houston didn&#8217;t sit still, moving up two slots to select Keylan Rutledge, a guard out of Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontexans.com\/news\/draft-tracker-all-the-news-and-videos-from-the-2026-nfl-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow our draft tracker<\/a> for the latest updates, and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontexans.com\/fans\/app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">download the app<\/a> to learn more about our picks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story has been updated following Day 3 of the 2026 NFL Draft. Texans 2026 Draft Picks As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":754005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[305383,11822,4345,310187,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-754004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-2026-draft","9":"tag-homepage-cp","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-marc-vandermeer","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116470029279112440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754004","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=754004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}