Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

It is our Round 1 recap show.

If you guys would like, you can go see us talk about every single pick of round 1

on the Athletic Football Show's YouTube channel where we did our 4-ish hour live stream yesterday

with me, Dane, Derek, Bruce Feldman breaking down every single pick of round one. So if you want to see us talk about your team a little bit more length, that is available to you. But because we didn't want to drop a four-hour show into your podcast feed overnight, we're doing a little bit of a recap show today, hitting some just categories, superlatives, little ways to bucket all of the picks in the first round favorite picks

favorite fits the butt of mike workout for us gambles in the first round biggest surprises what the

fuck were they thinking we just spent 20 minutes talking about tie simpson just let a you know us right now

that's exactly how this works the Costco all-stars the teams that bought in bulk and had more than one first-round pick.

So that's what we did today.

Hit a bunch of different categories breaking down a vast majority.

I think 30 of the players taken in the first 32 picks we hit on on this show.

So let's get to it with our first round recap right now.

Okay. with our first round recap right now. Well, the first round of the 2026th draft is in the books.

We just did a four-hour stream that you can watch on the Athletic Football Show YouTube channel.

If you want to go back and hear us talk about every single pick that was made in the first round, we are not going to talk about every single pick on this show, Dane, but we are going to talk about the most notable picks from the first round of the 2026 draft. And I mean, there weren't as many trades as we thought maybe. Big trades, a lot of mini trades. A lot of mini trades in the back end.

Yeah.

And so maybe not the chaos we expected, but a lot of fun fits, a lot of surprises, a lot of,

hmm, I didn't think about that, but in a fun way.

And so plenty to talk about on this pod.

Got the same crew that we had for the live stream with us right now. Bruce Feldman is back. Derek Kasten is here. Dave Hellman is here. We're going to go through a bunch of different categories that hopefully will best summarize what happened during the first round here. We're just going to start in a very simple place. Dave, what was your favorite pick from round one of the 2026 NFL draft?

I can think of one.

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