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You Better You Bet

Brian Jones' NFL Draft Breakdown

You Better You Bet

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

CBS Sports' Brian Jones joins the show to discuss his thoughts on the NFL Draft, including Fernando Mendoza, Arvell Reese and the rest of the top prospects.

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0:00.0

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Joining us now on the show,

1:00.2

we just had a great off-fair conversation. I know the honor of conversation will be great.

1:05.5

Our buddy Brian Jones does an awesome job for CBS covering college football. You see him every Saturday on CBS breaking it down on Twitter at Jones Info Mo. You're in for more.

1:11.5

Yes.

1:12.4

Jones and for Mo. You Jones? Oh, I love that. Welcome to the show, my friend. Happy Draft Week. How you doing? Hey, man. I'm doing great. And thank you for having me. That energy is infectious. So let's go, baby. Oh, we're going to now see now like like if you're gonna match me like i'll dial it back

1:29.9

a little bit so we don't have you know so i i can do that i can do that for us you do your thing i'll

1:34.5

dial it back you sure sure i'll dial it back absolutely not you are our esteemed guest here so

1:39.6

let's start with this you know i'm thinking about it sincerely. I have to do these, and I think

1:44.5

you know this, right, because you worked for CBS Sports Radio for a number of years. I have to do these Odyssey Sports Minutes every day, right, that air throughout the day. And I'm thinking about, I want to do an NFL one today. And it checks me. We're two days out from the draft. And we've known Fernando Mendoza is going to be the number one pick, Brian, for so long that it's like we've stopped talking about him. I think he's going to be an absolute monster in the NFL. Now, it might not happen immediately. Like, I don't think the Raiders are very good, but I think he's going to get them turned around in the near future here. I want to actually start with Mendoza and your scouting report on him as he gets set to be

2:19.1

the next quarterback of the Raiders.

2:21.4

Great place to start, man.

2:23.0

We had the luxury of taking our studio show on the road last October when Indiana faced

2:28.4

Oregon there in Eugene and getting the opportunity to see him and that team holistically in person was

2:37.7

outstanding for us.

2:39.3

And I tell you what, he is a surefire number one pick.

2:44.1

I don't think there's any question about that because we all know that quarterback

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