2026 NFL Draft 101: DK's Top-Five Mock, This Year's Jaxson Dart, Top WRs, and the Four Loko Era

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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The guys kick off their 2026 NFL Draft 101, breaking down why this class is light on quarterbacks, why Fernando Mendoza is still the likely no. 1 pick, and how the rest of the board stacks up behind him. They dive into DK’s top prospects like Caleb Downs and Arvell Reese, debate positional value, mock-draft chaos, quarterback tiers, and what teams should actually do in a weird, top-heavy draft class. (00:00) Intro (04:50) Panda Watch (24:39) Top Non-Quarterbacks (45:30) Top Receivers After Tate (49:31) Best Running Back (01:00:17) Craig Was on a Game Show (01:04:45) Emails Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau Check out the 2025 Ringer Fantasy Football Rankings: https://fantasyfootball.theringer.com/ Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Kai Grady, Carlos Chiriboga, and Cameron Dinwiddie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:05.0	My name is Danny Hypertz and I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Crick World that get today. Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:22.0	My name is Danny Hypertz.
0:22.8	And I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Worldbeck.
0:24.5	And today we are going over your introduction, your 101 to the NFL draft.
0:30.3	DK.
0:30.7	Our draft expert here, top 32 players, big board up at the ringer.com.
0:35.7	You got your mock draft up at the ringer.com.
0:37.7	We're to go through just introducing people to this year's draft. We have some emails at the end that are pretty funny. DK, what's the URL? Go. Yeah. It changed this year, Craig. Damn it. Why'd you have to ask? It's okay because NFL draft. Dotterringer.com redirects there. Sure. that's still works.
0:53.1	Oh, okay, well, that works.
0:54.8	I was looking at
0:55.7	the ringer.com
0:56.7	slash NFL dash jrash. dot the ringer.com redirects there. Sure. So that's the works. Oh, okay. Well, that works.
1:11.7	I was looking at the ringer.com slash NFL dash draft backslash 2026, backslash 20, a big dashboard. Okay. Yeah. Just go there. Yeah. And it'll be fine. Just go the ringer. It's a big button. Like that in. Yeah. We're going to go through all this and also emails at the end.
1:11.7	We found Craig's extra appearance button. I like that in. We're going to go through all this and also emails at the end.
1:28.5	We found Craig's extra appearance in that Emily Dickinson movie and the game show that Craig was on, which he couldn't remember the name. Some internet sleuths out here doing work. Shout out to the people. Some important stuff. Yeah. Email us at ringer fancy football jimels.com and shout out to the people of Discord who immediately found Craig in all these movies.
1:28.6	Can you guys find the Zodiac? That'd be cool. Get on that next. Okay. We're going to get to the draft and again, we're covering the draft. We're going to beat the combine in Indianapolis in a few weeks and, you know, after the Super Bowl, stick with us. We cover the draft offices and trades, free agency, everything, starting with D.K.
1:47.8	The number one question on the minds of everybody with this draft.
1:49.1	Let's just get to it.
1:51.8	Does this year's draft suck?
1:53.2	Yes.
1:59.7	Okay, but I want you to tell me, is it like across the board, the top players at every position are weaker?
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