2026 NFL Draft Recap: Deep Sleepers, Late-Round Gems & Dynasty Rookie Fallout (Ep. 343)

FantasyPros Dynasty Football Podcast

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4.7 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The 2026 NFL Draft is officially in the books! While the big names dominated the headlines on Thursday and Friday, championships are often won on Day 3. Join Ryan Wormeli, Pat Fitzmaurice, and Scott Bogman as they break down the most impactful picks from Rounds 4 through 7 and share our thoughts on the draft as a whole. In this special Day 3 reaction episode taken straight from our post-draft livestream on the FantasyPros Dynasty YouTube channel, the crew dives deep into the landing spots for late-round running backs, developmental quarterbacks, and high-upside wide receivers who could become the next great dynasty sleepers. We analyze which veterans saw their value take a hit and which rookies have a clear path to early touches.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.2	Hello, everybody.
0:06.5	Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Dynasty Show on the YouTube channel here live.
0:11.2	Recapping Day 3 of the 2026 NFL draft.
0:13.7	Really recapping the whole thing here for the next hour.
0:16.5	We are taking your questions if you have any.
0:19.1	And of course, we will have a lot to talk about just with
0:21.3	more landing spots kind of coming to fruition today uh you know sort of the day after reacting
0:26.6	to some of the stuff we've seen on Thursday and Friday and really just generally talking
0:31.2	about how the dynasty landscape has shifted to what degree it has shifted here over the last
0:35.9	few days uh we were just in the pre-show getting ready to go live, and Bogman was talking to Fitz. Like, oh, hey, where do you have this person ranked? I was like, no, no, no. This is what the show is for. We're going to be talking about that all our rankings and stuff, really throughout the next week. But starting here tonight as the final couple of selections get made. Technically, the draft isn't over yet. I believe there's one more pick to go, but we're pretty much here.
0:56.5	At the end, Fitz, how tired are you after three straight days of watching players get drafted?
1:01.0	Oh, I'm definitely picked out, Worm.
1:02.9	You know, I think I pretty much checked out when the Packers traded in to get their kicker at the end of round six.
1:10.6	Get rid of the Brandon McShankis era in Green Bay.
1:14.9	And our new kickers named Smack.
1:18.0	How good can, that's going to be a lot of fun in the fantasy leagues that have kickers.
1:23.1	Ravens took a specialist as well, a punter named Ryan.
1:26.8	So I'm happy with that one namewise there as well. Bogman, how are you feeling here at the end of day three? Seals took a specialist too, Kickreturner, Caden Weekend from Iowa. So, yeah, special teams was getting picked a lot in this class because it is fairly disappointing. That kind of class. Yeah, yeah. It is that kind of class.
1:45.2	I think was it Zach Ryerson yesterday that tweeted out like I have never seen a less
1:50.5	impactful draft for fantasy than this draft, maybe ever.
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