A shorter NFL Draft? Time between first-round picks shortened by 2 minutes in 2026

This year’s first round of the NFL Draft might be slightly shorter thanks to a change the league made to the time between picks.Teams will have eight minutes to make their first-round selections, down from the previous 10-minute window. The two-minute cut puts teams on a tighter clock to negotiate trades, but it should shorten the Day 1 proceedings, which had previously taken nearly four hours to complete.Advertisement