Big Draft Swings, Shanahan on 49ers Picks, Fugazi Friday Returns & Mailbag
3 and Out with John Middlekauff
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of 3 & Out, John Middlekauff dives into the philosophy of taking big swings in the NFL Draft—when it pays off, when it backfires, and which teams weren’t afraid to bet on upside this year.
John also reacts to Kyle Shanahan breaking down the 49ers’ draft class, giving insight into how San Francisco approached their picks and what it means for their roster moving forward.
Plus, Fugazi Friday returns as John talks about the biggest problem in ALL hotel rooms.
To wrap things up, it’s the Middlekauff Mailbag, featuring answers to your questions and covering a wide range of NFL topics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Our 2026 IHard Country Festival presented by Capital One. |
| 0:08.7 | Tickets are on sale now to see Luke Bryant, |
| 0:12.7 | Kane Brown, Parker McCollum, Riley Green, |
| 0:18.7 | Carly Pierce, |
| 0:19.7 | Shaboozy, Dylan Scott, Russell Dickerson, Gretchen Wilson, Green Carly Pierce Oh, you're happy now. |
| 0:21.4 | Shaboozy, Dylan Skun, |
| 0:23.1 | Russell Dickerson, |
| 0:24.3 | Gretchen Wilson, |
| 0:25.2 | Chase Matthew, |
| 0:26.2 | Lauren Elena, |
| 0:27.0 | special guest George Birch, |
| 0:28.9 | Saturday, May 2nd |
| 0:29.9 | at the Moody Center in Austin. |
| 0:31.8 | Stream live on Disney Plus and Hulu. |
| 0:35.6 | The volume. |
| 0:51.8 | The and Hulu. The volume. What is going on, everybody? How are we doing? John Middlecough, three and out podcast on this |
| 0:55.3 | beautiful Fugazi Friday. Hopefully everyone's doing well. We got Kyle Shanahan talking to Rich Eisen |
| 1:01.8 | about his draft picks, Anthony Richardson's career, kind of unofficially over an indie, |
| 1:08.4 | just disastrous draft pick. I got a big time Fugazi. And we'll do |
| 1:12.7 | some mailbag questions. At John Middlecoff. At John Middlecoff is the Instagram firing those |
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