Where Every Ottawa and Philadelphia Player Landed in the Dispersal Draft

Oshawa took Jeff Teat first overall in the 2026 NLL Dispersal Draft, Las Vegas took Nick Damude at No. 2 and Rochester took Callum Jones at No. 3. The draft ran September 15, 2026, and redistributed the combined Ottawa Black Bears and Philadelphia Wings player pool across the 12 continuing clubs. The reported board runs 43 numbered slots, two of them passes, for 41 named players. Seven of those slots were traded before they were used, which is why Buffalo picked six times and Toronto never picked at all.

One caveat sits over the whole list. The only league-wide pick-by-pick record available is a secondary transcription of an NLL Instagram post titled “Official results of the 2026 NLL Dispersal Draft.” Team releases from Georgia and Buffalo corroborate ten of the rows. The rest rest on that transcription alone, so read every name below as a reported result rather than a verified league record.

Pick a drafting club or round, or type a player’s name; the board filters and counts the picks instantly.

Neither the league-wide list nor the team releases record each player’s position or which of the two folded clubs he came from, so the board cannot filter on those two fields. It filters by the drafting club, the round and the player’s name.

How the 12-Club Pick Order Was Set

The NLL announced on September 10 that Ottawa and Philadelphia had ceased operations and that the 2026–27 season, the league’s 40th, would go ahead with 12 active member clubs. The announcement gives no business explanation for either departure, so nothing in the draft record supports conclusions about why the two clubs folded.

The original order ran by reverse regular-season winning percentage over the previous two seasons, with the most recent season weighted 70 percent. Weaker records picked earlier. Oshawa held No. 1. Toronto, as defending champion, was slotted 12th and last in each full round.

That original order and the final selection order answer different questions. The first shows where the two-season formula placed each club. The second shows who actually controlled each slot once trades were done. Toronto is the clearest example: it started with Nos. 12, 24 and 36, sent the first two to Las Vegas, and passed on the third.

Reported Pick-by-Pick Results

The “Via” column names the original owner of a traded slot; a dash means the selecting club used its own position.

Slot	Selecting club	Via	Player
1	Oshawa	—	Jeff Teat
2	Las Vegas	—	Nick Damude
3	Rochester	—	Callum Jones
4	Georgia	Calgary	Lukas Nielsen
5	San Diego	—	Brennan O’Neill
6	Halifax	—	Matt Marinier
7	Colorado	—	Alex Pace
8	Georgia	—	Deacan Knott*
9	Buffalo	—	Zach Higgins
10	Saskatchewan	—	Jake Stevens
11	Buffalo	Vancouver	Dalton Young
12	Las Vegas	Toronto	Mitchell Armstrong
13	Oshawa	—	Connor Kearnan
14	Las Vegas	—	Sam Leclair
15	Rochester	—	Brent Noseworthy
16	Calgary	—	Ben Kromer
17	San Diego	—	Jake Saunders
18	Halifax	—	Dustyn Birkhof
19	Saskatchewan	Colorado	Sam Firth
20	Georgia	—	Bo Columbus
21	Buffalo	—	Larson Sundown
22	Saskatchewan	—	Reed Kurtz
23	Buffalo	Vancouver	Scott Dominey
24	Las Vegas	Toronto	Ryan Wagner
25	Oshawa	—	Ron John
26	Las Vegas	—	Liam Aston
27	Buffalo	Rochester	Travis Longboat
28	Calgary	—	Nicholas Volkov
29	San Diego	—	Gregory Elijah-Brown
30	Halifax	—	Liam Patten
31	Colorado	—	Andrew Borgatti
32	Georgia	—	Isaiah Davis-Allen
33	Buffalo	—	Justin Sykes
34	Saskatchewan	—	Pass
35	Vancouver	—	Michael Sowers
36	Toronto	—	Pass
37	Oshawa	—	Kevin Brownell
38	Las Vegas	—	Chris Corbeil
39	Rochester	—	Luc Magnan
40	Calgary	—	Cole Begley
41	San Diego	—	Mason Woodward
42	Halifax	—	Landen Sinfield
43	Colorado	—	Evan Messenger

*Georgia’s own release spells the name Deacan Knott; the league-wide transcription has “Deacon Knott.” The first-party spelling is used here and the conflict is left open.

Slots 1–12 are round one, 13–24 round two, 25–36 round three and 37–43 the partial fourth round. After Colorado took Evan Messenger at No. 43, every remaining club passed, and those later passes were not given numbered slots.

Counted by club, the board gives Buffalo and Las Vegas six players each; Oshawa, Georgia, San Diego and Halifax four each; Rochester, Colorado, Saskatchewan and Calgary three each; Vancouver one; and Toronto none. Saskatchewan and Toronto are the two clubs that recorded an explicit pass inside the numbered slots.

Which Rows Are Corroborated by Team Releases

Georgia’s team release confirms the Swarm selected Lukas Nielsen, Deacan Knott, Bo Columbus and Isaiah Davis-Allen, matching Nos. 4, 8, 20 and 32.

Buffalo’s draft recap confirms the Bandits made six selections and names Zach Higgins at No. 9 and Dalton Young at No. 11. The league-wide table places Buffalo’s other four at Nos. 21, 23, 27 and 33, consistent with the six-pick count.

Those two releases support ten rows. The other 31 named players are carried on the strength of the secondary transcription and nothing else.

The Seven Traded Dispersal Slots

The NLL’s official transaction log verifies which slots changed hands and what came back, but it does not say who was picked with them. The player column is therefore from the reported results, not from the transaction record.

Slot (original owner)	New owner	Reported player	What the original owner got
No. 4 (Calgary)	Georgia	Lukas Nielsen	No. 7 in the 2026 NLL Entry Draft
Nos. 11 and 23 (Vancouver)	Buffalo	Dalton Young; Scott Dominey	No. 16 in the 2026 Entry Draft and Luca Antongiovanni, with Payton Cormier going to Buffalo alongside the two picks
Nos. 12 and 24 (Toronto)	Las Vegas	Mitchell Armstrong; Ryan Wagner	No. 17 in the 2026 Entry Draft
No. 19 (Colorado)	Saskatchewan	Sam Firth	Saskatchewan’s second-round pick in the 2027 Entry Draft
No. 27 (Rochester)	Buffalo	Travis Longboat	Buffalo’s third-round pick in the 2029 Entry Draft

Vancouver moved Nos. 11 and 23 together in one deal with Buffalo, and Toronto moved Nos. 12 and 24 together in one deal with Las Vegas. The other three trades each involved a single dispersal slot. Buffalo’s No. 9 was its own; only Nos. 11, 23 and 27 were acquired.

Three of the five deals were paid for with picks in the Entry Draft that followed on September 24, which is why Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto surrendered dispersal position for Nos. 7, 16 and 17 in that draft.

Why the Reported Player Count Is 40 or 41

The transcription states that 40 players were selected. Its own table names 41 players across 43 numbered slots, marking only Nos. 34 and 36 as passes. One of those two figures is wrong, and nothing in the available sources says which. This article uses 41 because that is what the displayed rows add up to, but neither number should be quoted as settled until the league publishes a consistent results record.

What a Dispersal Pick Did and Did Not Guarantee

A dispersal selection transferred a player’s rights. It did not mean he signed, reported to camp or made an active roster. Georgia’s release says its four selections were expected to report to training camp in November and compete for active-roster spots, which is the only documented statement of what a pick meant in practice.

The same limit applies to any ranking of the draft. Without contract announcements, camp reports and final rosters, these results do not support depth-chart assignments, draft grades or 2026–27 predictions. What they support is narrower: Teat went first to Oshawa, seven slots moved in documented NLL transactions, 41 or 40 Ottawa and Philadelphia players were spread across 11 of the 12 continuing clubs, and two details, the player count and the spelling of Knott’s first name, remain unresolved.