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The Ringer NFL Show

2026 NFL Draft Winners and Losers

The Ringer NFL Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sheil and The Ringer’s own Diante Lee get together after the third day of the 2026 NFL draft to assess which teams and players either raised their status heading into next season or inexplicably put the development of their organizations on the back foot over the weekend. (00:48) 2026 NFL Draft Winners and Losers (01:25) Cleveland Browns (09:44) New York Giants (15:56) New Orleans Saints (21:00) New England Patriots (32:14) Jacksonville Jaguars (39:44) NFL draft quick hits The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Sheil Kapadia Guest: Diante Lee Producer: Chris Sutton Video Editor: Stefano Sanchez Production Supervision: Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Ringer NFL show.

0:08.2

I'm your host, Sheal Capadia, the 2026 NFL draft is in the books.

0:13.8

We're doing winners and losers today.

0:16.1

We're looking at the entirety of the three days.

0:19.2

Which teams do we feel like, hey, they did a good job with the resources they had.

0:23.2

Which other teams do we say, you know what?

0:25.2

I don't know.

0:25.9

I don't know about what they did with some of these decisions over draft weekend.

0:29.8

So we're going to have on my friend, Deontay Lee, from the ringer, do winners and losers with Deontes when we come back.

0:47.9

Yeah. winners and losers with Deontay when we come back. All right, we are back here on the Ringer NFL show doing draft winners and losers.

0:53.6

We did the first round, Deontay, after Thursday night.

0:57.1

A lot of picks have been made since then, what, like 226 picks or something like that?

1:01.6

There have been trades. There have been stories. And so we're basically just ping ponging back and

1:06.5

forth. You could do a winner. You could do a loser. What topics are front of mind?

1:11.6

You get to get us started. Where are you going? You going positive. You go a negative. How are we starting this? You know, me, man, I'm the eternal optimist. I feel like that is just my mode of being. For everything, maybe not Eagles related, I am an eternal optimist. So let's start off with the winner. And I think I'm going to go off the beaten path, somebody or I guess a team, a franchise.

1:31.3

And, somebody, or I guess a team, a franchise, and an executive brain trust that I probably don't give very much credit to often. And I'm going to say it's the Cleveland Browns. I thought that this was- My first winner as well, Deontay. What a moment for the Browns on the Ringar NFL show. It's already the most positive buzz they've gotten, I think, since I started working here.

1:47.3

So there you go. what a moment for the Browns on the Ringar NFL show. It's already the most positive buzz they've

1:45.4

gotten, I think, since I started working here. So there you go. Absolutely. I mean, and I feel like so

1:51.2

often we're talking about like, you know, how analytically driven their decision making is. And,

1:56.2

you know, they always seem to want, they always want to be pushing maybe a stride and a half ahead of

2:02.0

wherever they think the trend lines are supposed to be, right? They're going to take whatever

2:05.5

data you get from the draft or free agency or whatever, and they're going to try to maximize

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