Day 2 of the 2017 NFL Draft will be on Friday evening in Philadelphia. Here is a list of all the picks coming in the third round of the draft.
Thursday night was a ton of fun in the 2017 NFL Draft. That was the much-anticipated first round. Twenty-seven of the 32 NFL franchises were able to take at least one player on Thursday night in round one to make their team better.
The New Orleans Saints, the San Francisco 49ers and the Tennessee Titans all had two first-round selections. Then there was the Cleveland Browns who had a whopping three first-round picks in Day 1. Only the Green Bay Packers, the Los Angeles Rams, the Minnesota Vikings, the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks did not take a player on Thursday night.
On Friday evening, it will be Day 2 of the 2017 NFL Draft. This is where championship teams are built. If a team can’t find top-end talent in rounds two and three, then somebody else will and general managers will be on the hot seat.
The third round of the NFL Draft is where we start to see some of the compensatory picks come into play. While picks No. 65 to No. 96 will be your standard third-round selections, picks No. 97 to No. 107 will be off the compensatory variety.
Round three will be the first time that the Patriots will be on the clock. Not only did New England trade away its first-round pick to the New Orleans Saints, it did the same thing with its second-round pick to the Carolina Panthers.
Another team to keep a close eye on in round three is the Seahawks. Seattle will have four picks in the third round: its own at No. 90, the Atlanta Falcons’ at No. 95 and two compensatory picks at No. 102 and No. 106. Here is a list of all the selections to be made in the third round on Friday night in Philadelphia.
2017 NFL Draft: Third-round picks
65. Cleveland Browns
66. San Francisco 49ers
67. San Francisco 49ers (from Chicago Bears)
68. Jacksonville Jaguars
69. Los Angeles Rams
70. New York Jets
71. Los Angeles Chargers
72. New England Patriots (from Carolina Panthers)
73. Cincinnati Bengals
74. Baltimore Ravens (from Philadelphia Eagles)
75. Buffalo Bills
76. New Orleans Saints
77. Arizona Cardinals
78. Baltimore Ravens
79. Minnesota Vikings
80. Indianapolis Colts
81. Washington Redskins
82. Denver Broncos
83. Tennessee Titans
84. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
85. Detroit Lions
86. Minnesota Vikings (from Miami Dolphins)
87. New York Giants
88. Oakland Raiders
89. Houston Texans
90. Seattle Seahawks
91. Buffalo Bills (from Kansas City Chiefs)
92. Dallas Cowboys
93. Green Bay Packers
94. Pittsburgh Steelers
95. Seattle Seahawks (from Atlanta Falcons)
96. New England Patriots
*97. Miami Dolphins
*98. Carolina Panthers
*99. Philadelphia Eagles (from Baltimore Ravens)
*100. Tennessee Titans (from Los Angeles Rams)
*101. Denver Broncos
*102. Seattle Seahawks
*103. New Orleans Saints (from Cleveland Browns through New England Patriots)
*104. Kansas City Chiefs
*105. Pittsburgh Steelers
*106. Seattle Seahawks
*107. New York Jets
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Another interesting part to the third round the NFL Draft is that the 49ers will have two of the first three picks. Keep in mind that they moved back a pick to draft defensive end Solomon Thomas out of Stanford. San Francisco has back-to-back trades at No. 66 and No. 67 thanks to the Chicago Bears moving up to No. 2 from No. 3 to draft quarterback Mitchell Trubisky out of North Carolina.