NY Giants NFL Draft 2026: How often have NFL teams hit on two top 10 picks?

TL;DR

The New York Giants hold two top 10 picks in the 2026 NFL Draft, raising questions about their potential impact. Historically, teams with two top 10 picks have had mixed success, with only four Hall of Famers emerging from 17 instances since 1967.

Key points

New York Giants have two top 10 picks in the 2026 NFL Draft.
Historical success rate for teams with two top 10 picks is mixed.
Only four Hall of Famers emerged from 17 instances since 1967.
Giants' 2022 picks Kayvon Thibodeaux and Evan Neal have faced scrutiny.

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Evan Neal and Kayvon Thibodeaux. The disappointment of (at least some) New York Giants fans at losing what many would consider their best defensive player of the last few years from an already poor defense is assuaged by the fact that the Giants now have two top 10 draft picks, Nos. 5 and 10, in what is considered a relatively weak 2026 NFL Draft overall. The question now is what they will do with those two picks. Of equal interest is: How often has having two top 10 picks worked out for teams in the past? It’s possible that the Giants will trade down to later in the first round with one of the picks, probably No. 10, to pick later in the round and add at least another Day 2 pick. My guess is that the Giants would gladly do that, but in a draft with few highly ranked quarterbacks, that is less likely than in some other years. Let’s instead just consider what’s happened in the past when teams just stayed in the top 10 and made both picks. Rich Cimini of ESPN, who covers the New York Jets, looked at that a few years ago, when the Jets had two top 10 picks. Here is his complete list up to that point of teams that picked twice in the top 10 going back to 1967:

Some notable things about this list:

For decades it was very common for a team to have two top 10 picks, but then after 2000, it just stopped for almost two decades until 2018.
Fans think that their general managers are *supposed to* ‘hit” on Round 1 picks, but in reality only about half of them even get a second contract from the team that drafted them. You’d imagine that the top 10 would be better, but only four Hall of Famers came out out of the 17 cases above of teams having two top 10 picks. The jury is still out on and from the 2018 class, but Mayfield has settled into good-but-not-great territory, while Ward, though having made the Pro Bowl the last three years and five times overall, is probably not HOF-caliber. Per Cimini 10 of the 17 instances yielded a player who made multiple Pro Bowls.

Q&A

What is the historical success rate of NFL teams with two top 10 draft picks?

Historically, only about half of the players selected in the top 10 receive a second contract, with only four Hall of Famers from 17 instances of teams having two top 10 picks since 1967.

Which teams have had two top 10 picks in the NFL Draft since 1967?

Several teams have had two top 10 picks since 1967, including the New York Jets, Baltimore Ravens, and Indianapolis Colts, among others.

What are the New York Giants' draft picks in the 2026 NFL Draft?

The New York Giants currently hold the 5th and 10th overall picks in the 2026 NFL Draft.

How did the New York Giants perform with their top 10 picks in the 2022 NFL Draft?

In the 2022 NFL Draft, the Giants selected Kayvon Thibodeaux and Evan Neal, but both players have faced criticism regarding their performances.

NY Giants NFL Draft 2026: How often have NFL teams hit on two top 10 picks?

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