2026 NFL Draft Round 1 Recap + Day 2 Preview: Best Available + Bold Predictions
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta recap all the biggest storylines from Round 1 the of 2026 NFL Draft. The guys also give their biggest winners & losers and discuss the biggest names still available entering Day 2.
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(00:00) Intro
(00:55) Rams take Ty Simpson At No. 13
(7:42) Cardinals Take Jeremiyah Love At No. 3
(11:19) Titans Take Carnell Tate At No. 4
(14:00) Grading Teams With Multiple Picks
(32:30) Biggest Winners & Losers
(39:00) Best Available Players
(43:00) Bold Predictions For Day 2
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into this Friday edition of pushing the pile. |
| 0:13.3 | Mike Renner and J.P. Acosta coming to you as always for the next hour here, |
| 0:18.6 | recapping night one of the NFL draft, JP, we came in billing it as a wild one. |
| 0:27.7 | As one of the more interesting classes, a night one that we said, no one knows what's going to happen. |
| 0:35.1 | And I think it lived up to the hype in that regard. |
| 0:55.0 | This is the very first time, and I'm going to say probably the last time in my final mock, I got more picks correct between 20 and 30 than I did between 1 and 10, which to me was just so indicative of how crazy this year's draft was. We got a lot of ways we can go. I'm going to open the floor to you. |
| 1:01.2 | What do you want to talk about from what was a wild night one? So do we want to talk about the Rams first and the entire like Ty Simpson of it all? Because I think that is genuinely |
| 1:08.0 | one of, if not the most shocking draft pick I've ever seen covering the NFL |
| 1:12.7 | draft. I mean, when you look at what the Rams are when it comes to being a Super Bowl team |
| 1:17.5 | on the cusp of actually going and doing it and going and winning another Super Bowl, but |
| 1:22.4 | they were also feeling like they were putting one foot into the future. Ty Simpson at 13 feels like the antithesis of everything that the Rams have been going for |
| 1:34.4 | and wanting in the quarterback spot. |
| 1:36.3 | So the reason that I say that is with the 2018, 2019, like 2020 Rams, the Rams offense that everyone says, like, Ty Simpson is a perfect |
| 1:47.1 | scheme fit for. Sean McVeigh got away from Jared Gough and traded from Matthew Stafford because |
| 1:52.3 | he didn't want somebody who he had to hold his hand for the offense to work to sort of, like, |
| 1:57.6 | draw everything up to a T. He wants someone who could create someone with those |
| 2:01.5 | elite like top tier skills. Ty Simpson, well, I do think he has shown he can throw the ball over |
| 2:07.4 | the middle with confidence. I think he can scramble for like seven yards on a third and six. |
| 2:12.7 | I just don't think he has that overwhelming athletic trait that makes him somebody you say like, |
| 2:18.5 | yeah, we'll let you sit and develop. |
| 2:20.2 | But because when you think about those players, those guys that get the sit and develop type |
| 2:26.4 | of time, you think of Jordan Love, who is 6'4, 230, and has one of the strongest arms |
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