2016 WWE draft
Rnd Pick # Brand Brand pick # Employee ( Real name )
1 1 Raw 1 Seth Rollins ( Colby Lopez )
1 2 SmackDown 1 Dean Ambrose ( Jonathan Good )
1 3 Raw 2 Charlotte ( Ashley Fliehr )
1 4 SmackDown 2 AJ Styles ( Allen Jones )
1 5 Raw 3 Finn Bálor ( Fergal Devitt )
2 6 Raw 4 Roman Reigns ( Leati Anoa ' i )
2 7 SmackDown 3 John Cena
2 8 Raw 5 Brock Lesnar
2 9 SmackDown 4 Randy Orton
2 10 Raw 6 The New Day ( Big E , Kofi Kingston , and Xavier Woods ) ( Ettore Ewen , Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah and Austin Watson )
3 11 Raw 7 Sami Zayn ( Rami Sebei )
3 12 SmackDown 5 Bray Wyatt ( Windham Rotunda )
3 13 Raw 8 Sasha Banks ( Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado )
3 14 SmackDown 6 Becky Lynch ( Rebecca Quin )
3 15 Raw 9 Chris Jericho ( Christopher Irvine )
4 16 Raw 10 Rusev with Lana ( Miroslav Barnyashev with Catherine Perry )
4 17 SmackDown 7 The Miz with Maryse ( Michael Mizanin with Maryse Mizanin )
4 18 Raw 11 Kevin Owens ( Kevin Steen )
4 19 SmackDown 8 Baron Corbin ( Thomas Pestock )
4 20 Raw 12 Enzo and Cass ( Enzo Amore and Big Cass ) ( Eric Arndt and William Morrissey )
Selection -- SmackDown Live
The following is the list of wrestlers who were drafted on SmackDown Live . [ 7 ]
The 2016 WWE draft was the tenth WWE draft, and first since 2011, produced by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE between the Raw and SmackDown brands. It took place on July 19 during the live premiere of SmackDown on the USA Network in the United States broadcasting from the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.