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Welcome back to another episode of Beyond the Tape.

TJ Wingard here with you, the lead NFL draft analyst for 32 beat riders.

Been a long time since we had an episode of Beyond the Tape.

So let me be the last one to wish you, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. And of course, happy New Year as we head into 2026. And even on that note, real quick, I know why you're here. We're getting into our first two-round mock draft of the 2026 draft cycle. Real quick, before we hit on that, one happy new year, but also, this is a great time to go ahead and join the 32 Beatwriters. There, you can subscribe to us here on YouTube, follow us on X. You can also follow myself, as well as Z, our lead fantasy analysts, but also on our website over at 32BRiders.com, I highly encourage you to go ahead and subscribe. I know not everyone's into subscriptions, but Z's Fantasy Insight, we're also going to be starting as of this week. We're going to be starting live prospect breakdowns with me in our Discord. It's going to be a lively bunch. It's going to be a lot of really fun back and forth about these prospects, what we like, what we don't like, who is the right fit for them, things of that nature. So great time to go ahead and jump in, dive into deeper draft conversations and then of course like I said

z is a fantasy wizard i'm not ashamed to admit it won one of my fantasy leagues got to another

championship in large part because of how he helped me throughout the year with trades

waiver suggestions things like that so he's a resource i lean on and i would highly encourage you

he in and of himself is honestly probably worth the 32 beat writer subscription cost. So I did want to plug that. Go ahead and subscribe over to the YouTube or excuse me to our website as well as the YouTube and follow us on Twitter. And of course, like I said, live prospect breakdown starting this week. We're going to put the first one up on YouTube, I do believe. So you'll be able to see that first one, get a little bit of a taste for it, but then we're going to be doing that weekly in our Discord. All right, with all that said, let's jump into why you're here. And that is, of course, because we have our first two-round mock draft of the 26 cycle. First 18 picks, this is the draft order, barring trades and and whatnot that will eventually come our way. So we kick things off with the Las Vegas Raiders.

I will have Fernando Mendoza be the first overall pick. If I do get word that Dante Moore is coming out and, you know, it feels like depending of where you look, it's this way or it's that way and kind of conflicting reports out there, if he's in this class, he'll probably be my QB1, just because I'll chase the upside of Moore versus Mendoza.

But look, Mendoza won the highest men. I do think there is a high floor. He does bring, not the lowest of ceiling, not like a, you know, Kenny Pickett type of situation where the floor is the ceiling or anything like that. this is a guy that you know and plenty of drafts would go number one overall in a lot of ways he'll i think

i'm going to have a higher grade on minosa than came ward but anything like that. This is a guy that, you know, and plenty of drafts would go number one overall.

In a lot of ways, he'll, I think I'm going to have a higher grade on Mendoza than K. Mord,

but, you know, the process isn't done yet. So I don't want to say that until we get to April. But as of right now, I would, you know, if you put Cam Ward Mendoza in the same draft, I think I would lean towards Mendoza there, but that's that's also tricky.

That's it's a upside versus floor argument in and of itself.

Same thing we're talking about with Moore versus Mendoza.

So my key B1 at the moment. but that's that's also tricky that's it's a upside versus floor argument in and of itself same

thing we're talking about with Moore versus Mendoza so my key B one at the moment I would put the

flag on Dante Moore but that being said totally understand why for Fernando Mendoza is kind of the

consensus number one overall pick right now winning the highest man could totally see where Brady

loves this guy wants to have him be you, the pillar of the Raiders organization.

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