2026 NFL Draft Round One Reaction, Fantasy Implications & Our Best Bets For Day Two (Episode 975 with Adam Levitan, Evan Silva, John Daigle)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan, Evan Silva and John Daigle provide their reaction and expert fantasy analysis on the fantasy football fallout from night one of the 2026 NFL Draft. They discuss which landing spots they like, which picks they disliked and preview night two for the best bets left on the board.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 975 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast, actually live streamed today. |
| 0:23.9 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:25.7 | Round one of the NFL draft is in the books. |
| 0:30.2 | Round two will start in roughly five and a half hours from now. |
| 0:33.8 | It is indeed a great time to be alive to discuss all pertinent topics. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm joined by two young men you know and love. |
| 0:41.5 | Evan Silva, how's it going today? |
| 0:43.4 | It's going wonderful. |
| 0:45.4 | Not as wonderful as it is for all the dudes that got drafted last night. |
| 0:50.0 | However, I don't know about you guys, but I spent the entire morning watching draft phone calls |
| 0:54.5 | bawling my eyes out. I'm just getting very, very emotional, watching these dudes get these |
| 1:00.8 | phone calls that, you know, one of the greatest days of their lives. Indeed. John Daigle, |
| 1:06.5 | how's it going today? We'll just say shout out to our good friend who joined us for the initial rookie |
| 1:12.3 | draft in Theo Griminger finishing with the nation's highest, most accurate mock draft. |
| 1:19.1 | It's nothing for it, by the way, but I'm still proud of him. Does anyone care? I know you guys |
| 1:23.9 | love it. Does anyone care about these mock drafts and winning and having the most... Who cares? |
| 1:28.0 | Who cares? |
| 1:29.0 | Doesn't matter? I care. I don't even... It's like playing a game. It's a competition. I don't even enter the contest anymore. Someone doesn't care. I'm coming out as anti-mock draft. I'm taking that stand. Well, after your first 10 picks you put on Twitter, I'd be anti-mog draft. |
| 1:45.2 | It's just ridiculous. |
| 1:47.7 | I don't know. mock draft. I'm taking that stand. Well, after your first 10 picks you put on Twitter, I'd be anti-mog draft. |
| 1:45.5 | It's just ridiculous. |
| 2:02.2 | I didn't even think about that. Levitant, did you, did you butcher it? I don't know. I think I got all 10 that were in the top 10 just in the wrong order. Oh. Yeah, it's, I mean, that's part of the game. I was one leg off of a parlay from losing. |
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