The Washington Commanders entered Day 3 of the 2026 NFL Draft with four picks still on the board, and Adam Peters had already used two of the club’s six selections to shape the top of the class. Peters took Sonny Styles, a linebacker from Ohio State, with the No. 7 overall pick and later added Clemson wide receiver Antonio Williams at No. 71 overall.
Day 3 of the draft was scheduled for Saturday, April 25, at 7 p.m. Eastern, with coverage available on ABC,, NFL Network and Deportes, and streaming on WatchESPN, NFL.com, + and fuboTV. For Washington, the setup was simple: six picks total, four of them in the late rounds, and the work that mattered most was about to begin.
That matters because the Commanders had already completed their Round 1 and Round 3 choices before the final day opened, leaving Peters with the chance to fill out the roster with the kind of depth pieces that can define a draft class. Styles gives Washington an early defensive centerpiece, while Williams adds another young target to the offense. The rest of the weekend was where the draft would either round into a complete plan or show the limits of what those first two picks could do.
The tension for Washington was in the math. Four picks sounds like a lot until Day 3 starts, when the board moves fast and every selection has to hit a need. Peters had already made the headline moves with his first two picks. What remained was the quieter part of the draft, and that was the part the Commanders had to get right.
By the time the final rounds were underway, the answer for Washington was already taking shape: Adam Randall’s tracker pointed to a team that had front-loaded its draft and was now trying to turn four Day 3 chances into useful depth. The question was no longer whether the Commanders had draft capital left. They did. The question was whether those remaining picks would keep the class moving in the same direction as the first two.
