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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

Draft Draft: Drafting All 32 Teams' Draft Classes, Aaron Rodgers Tendered (?!), and Is Tartar Sauce Just Fancy Mayo?

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

The guys open with classic nonsense before diving into their first-ever “Draft the Draft,” debating which teams actually crushed it. They also break down the bizarre Ty Simpson–Rams saga and what it means for the league. (00:00) Intro (01:15) Steelers tag Aaron Rodgers with the right of first refusal (06:23) Ty Simpson (14:33) Draft Draft (01:43:13) Emails Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau Check out The Ringer’s 2026 NFL Draft Guide: https://theringer.com/nfl-draft/2026/big-board#content Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com Shop Amazon and save the everyday. Visit amazon.com today. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Austin Gayle, Abou Kamara, Carlos Chiriboga, and Cameron Dinwiddie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So it's mayo.

0:19.3

Pickles and spices? Mixed with chopped cornichons. Cornichon. Cornichon. Gherkins, capers, tarragon, dill, parsley, and chives. Huh. Okay. Anyway. Welcome to the Ringer NFL Draft show, soon to be the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.

0:38.1

My name is Danny Hyphen,

0:38.8

so I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Rolbeck, and we're going to go through all 32 draft. We're going to draft the draft. I can't believe no one's done this before. We're going to draft which draft classes were the best. That's right. Draft draft. ever thought of that.

0:53.1

We don't know if no one's ever thought of that,

0:54.9

but if you did, you can't do it.

0:57.3

You can say whatever you want, Craig. Guy beats an ostrich in an eating contest. He's the eating champion of the world, apparently. He just grabbed the closest ostriches. Ten plates of spaghetti. Like nothing. Unbelievable. Yeah, we're going to draft draft. afterwards and go through Dicius draft grades or at NFLdraft.com and Craig and I are going to tear them to shreds,

1:14.7

but for the, like nothing. Unbelievable. Yeah, we're going to draft draft and go through Deky's draft grades

1:11.6

or at NFLdraft.

1:12.5

The ringer.com and Craig and I are going to tear them to shreds. But first, a couple pieces of news. What? First of all, the Steelers have, I can't, I just saw this post from Adam Schaefter and I'm just going to read it verbatim. I don't, I, I, I, I'd never heard of this.

1:27.9

Shefter posted this morning, sources, the Steelers placed the rare right of first refusal

1:33.3

tender on Aaron Rogers, meaning that he can accept a 10% raise off last year's salary,

1:39.2

which would pay him about $15 million this season.

1:42.2

As another condition of the tender, Rogers would only be able to sign with the Steelers once training camp begins, end quote. I didn't know what this was. I've never heard of this before. And so they're basically just saying you can get a 10% raise if you sign with the Steelers, and that's it. I had never heard of this. Apparently, they can do this with any free agent that doesn't sign after the draft. I've never heard of this. Oh, you have to wait until after the draft to do it. Apparently. I think this is bizarre. I guess what it means in practice is basically they're going to be like Aaron, you can have a 15% raise or you can retire or you can go and play for someone else and if you sign a

2:18.1

contract elsewhere, we'll match it. It's kind of weird to do this. The key element is it gets him

2:23.4

in the building. Is that it? In theory. Right. Well, is it a 10 or 15%? I thought his tweet says 10.

2:30.5

Oh, yeah. Sorry, it's 15 million, but I wrote down 50% raise. It's 10% raise, which is about $15 million. Yeah, Craig. So is this, obviously, it's not embarrassing that Earned Rogers is still not with the team. Was this more? You know what? Lay off, all right? Fuck. Everything's embarrassing.

2:46.8

High Lemon hanging up on them. That wasn't embarrassed. There's nothing embarrassing about your first round pick hanging up and being drafted with someone else. What do you want me to say? What do you want me to say? Are we in the perfect situation right now? No, we're not. Okay? I'm trying to get excited about Jeremy Bernard. He's kind of all I have right now. I'm hanging on my thread here. Yeah, it's messy. We have Drew Aller.

3:07.9

We have Aaron Rogers, maybe.

3:09.5

That's kind of, and Will Howard.

3:10.9

Craig, sorry to do this.

3:12.8

I was instructed to do this by our fans.

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