Big Boards: Consensus Top 75 • Nate Tice • Charles McDonald | Draft guide
NFL and college football fans unite! It’s almost time for the 2026 NFL Draft. And we know you have your opinions about who should be drafted to your favorite team. But you don’t have to keep it bottled up — you can share your approval (or disapproval) with us. The Yahoo Sports app lets you react to each draft pick with three different emoji (find out which ones below). Plus, you can back up your reaction with a comment and see what other fans have to say about your team’s pick. There’s also a Live Activities feature for iPhone users to follow the draft right from your lock screen.
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If you’re following the 2026 NFL Draft, you can use Yahoo Sports as your ultimate player research tool. It features an interactive NFL Draft guide, which shows player scouting reports and comps, draft news, as well as the latest Yahoo Sports mock draft and big board. You can use the big board to filter by NFL teams, schools, player positions and attributes. Some elements from the draft guide are also available in the Yahoo Sports app via enhanced prospect pages.
Now let’s dive into all the features you can use on the Yahoo Sports app, and how you can connect with other NFL enthusiasts.
Here’s what you can do in the Yahoo Sports app
Connect with other NFL fans
The Yahoo Sports app will let you connect with other fans around the NFL Draft in real time. Using the Discussions feature, you can chat with each other and Yahoo Sports experts about each player and pick in the draft — or just lurk and read everyone else’s hot takes about who your favorite team picked!
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To access Discussions for each player, just visit their prospect pages from the NFL Draft hub. You can also talk about the broader NFL draft in a megathread (at the top of the NFL Draft hub).
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Use emoji to react to NFL draft picks
You can react to each draft pick with an emoji. You can share 🔥 if you agree with the pick, 🤔 if you’re unsure how you feel about the pick, or 😬 if you don’t like the pick.
Emoji reactions are available on both iOS and Android versions of the Yahoo Sports app.
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Live activities feature
The Yahoo Sports app on iOS has a Live Activities feature, which lets you stay up-to-date on each pick in the draft — even if your phone is locked. Just visit the NFL Draft hub, or add NFL as a favorite league, to get every pick pushed to your lock screen as they happen.
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Stream Yahoo Sports’ Draft Live show
You can watch Yahoo Sports’ NFL Draft Live show in the app, starting at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday for the first round, and 7 p.m. ET Friday for the second and third rounds.
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When is the 2026 NFL Draft?
Round 1 of the 2026 NFL Draft kicks off on Thursday, Apr. 23, 2026 at 8 p.m. ET. Rounds 2-7 will follow on Friday, Apr. 24 and Saturday, Apr. 25.
2026 NFL Draft time
Round 1 of the NFL Draft will begin at 8 p.m. ET. Rounds 2-3 will air Friday starting at 7 p.m. ET. Saturday’s coverage of rounds 4-7 will start at 12 p.m. ET.
2026 NFL Draft channel
You can tune into coverage of this year’s NFL Draft on ABC, ESPN and NFL Network, along with ESPN Deportes (Spanish broadcast). You can stream coverage on NFL+ and ESPN+.