The Portland Trail Blazers didn’t make a pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, but their recent draft history still tells you plenty about where the roster stands heading into 2026-27.
Since 2022, Portland has made seven selections, and four of those players are still with the team. Some are core pieces.
Some are hanging on in bigger roles. And a few have already moved on, whether by trade or because the Blazers chose a different direction.
Shaedon Sharpe is now locked into his second contract with Portland, a four-year deal worth $90 million. His path has been uneven since arriving as a teenager who never played at Kentucky despite entering college as the top recruit in his high school class, but the progress has shown up over time.
Last season, he averaged 20.8 points per game. Even so, his role is set to shift this year, with Sharpe expected to come off the bench behind Ja Morant and Damian Lillard in the starting five.
Scoot Henderson’s Blazers career has come with a different kind of pressure. Portland took him third overall in the 2023 NBA Draft, and the expectation was that he would eventually step in as the team’s point guard of the future.
That hasn’t fully happened yet. He was supposed to be the answer after Lillard was being traded to the Milwaukee Bucks during the 2023 offseason, but Henderson has needed time to adjust after entering the league at 19 without any college experience.
A left hamstring tear kept him out for much of the 2025-26 season, though he returned for 30 games late in the year and was pushed into the starting lineup for the playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs. He heads into the new season as a backup behind Morant and Lillard, and he’s also entering a contract year.
Donovan Clingan is in a much more settled spot. He’s heading into his third NBA season and has spent the last two years as Portland’s starting center.
The Blazers view him as their center of the future, and that only gets stronger if he keeps producing. He’s eligible for an extension next offseason, and if he puts up another double-double season like the one he just had, Portland will likely want to keep him around long term.
Yang Hansen is still in the early stages of his NBA journey after going 16th overall in the 2025 draft. Most of his season was spent with the Rip City Remix and in the G League, and he had a tougher time when he got to the NBA.
He appeared in 43 games for Portland and averaged 2.2 points per game. He remains a long-term project, but Clingan’s rise is starting to narrow the path for Yang to become a lasting piece in Portland.
Not every recent Blazer draftee is still in the picture. Jabari Walker spent his first three seasons in Portland as a mostly reserve option, appearing in 188 games, starting 50 and averaging 5.3 points per game.
The Blazers let him walk when his contract expired after his third season, and he later signed a two-way deal with the Sixers last summer. Walker made 64 appearances for Philadelphia and turned that into a standard contract for the coming season.
He’s now expected to provide depth as the Sixers chase a title after adding LeBron James and Jaylen Brown earlier in the offseason.
Keon Johnson is also out of Portland. The second-round pick from Colorado spent his first three years in the Pacific Northwest and got plenty of NBA run while the Blazers were rebuilding.
But Portland did not bring him back when his deal ended. The Sixers signed him to a two-way contract last summer, and he appeared in 64 games for Philadelphia before earning a standard deal that carries into this season.
He’s now projected as depth for a team trying to contend.
Rayan Rupert’s Blazers stint ended earlier this year, when Portland cut him in favor of his fellow French national teammate Sidy Cissoko. Rupert, a second-round pick in 2023, had signed quickly with the team after being drafted.
He finished the 2025-26 season with the Grizzlies, where he played 16 games and averaged 12.2 points per game. In early July, he landed a two-way deal with the 76ers and will now try to carve out NBA rotation minutes there.
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