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Drew Allar from Penn State was not drafted in the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft. The first two quarterbacks selected were Fernando Mendoza and Ty Simpson.
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Two quarterbacks were selected in the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft on Thursday night.
The Las Vegas Raiders, as expected, picked Indiana's Fernando Mendoza No. 1 overall. And in a surprise, the Los Angeles Rams took Ty Simpson out of Alabama with the 13th pick.
Those were generally assumed to be the first two QBs off the board, and they were.
That leaves everyone else, including Penn State's Drew Allar, waiting.
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Allar was not drafted in the first round.
Rounds two and three are Friday night, but there's no guarantee of Allar in those rounds, either.
The fourth through seventh rounds are Saturday. Allar certainly will get picked at some point.
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Drew Allar was not among the top two quarterbacks selected, which were Fernando Mendoza and Ty Simpson.
The first quarterbacks selected were Fernando Mendoza by the Las Vegas Raiders and Ty Simpson by the Los Angeles Rams.
Drew Allar's NFL landing spot remains uncertain as he was not drafted in the first round.
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At this point, two teams seem like logicial possibilities.
The Arizona Cardinals let Kyler Murray go this offseason and are relying on stopgap QB options Jacoby Brissett and Gardner Minshew. They were heavily linked to Simpson but didn't get him, and they'd now make sense for a quarterback like Allar or Carson Beck.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have been mock drafted with Allar plenty. Now they could take him in the real thing, an eventual heir possibility to Aaron Rodgers.