Draft Room: NFL Execs Mock the Top 10 — Mendoza, Reese, Bailey and Surprising Titans Drama
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
NFL executives weighed in on the 2026 Draft's top 10 — and the results are messier than anyone expected. Ryan breaks down the Athletic's executive mock draft, where four front-office insiders couldn't even agree past pick three, and the debate over Cam Mendoza at one is more unsettled than the consensus wants you to believe.
- Executive Mock Breakdown: All four execs lock in Mendoza-Reese-Bailey in the top three, but picks four through ten feature wildly divergent opinions — including two executives who had Keldrick Falk going to Tennessee in the top five, a pick the rest of the industry thinks is laughable.
- Jeremiah Love Rising: Connor Rogers floats the possibility that Love doesn't make it to the typical 7-9 range, with the Titans, Cardinals, and Giants all in play as potential landing spots earlier than expected.
- Combine Analytics — Defense Wraps Up: Ryan finishes Kevin Cole's Unexpected Points modeling series, covering linebackers, cornerbacks, and safeties. The takeaway: teams are overvaluing measurables that barely correlate to NFL success, especially at linebacker and corner — with Sunny Styles, Jalen Kilgore, and Lorenzo Styles among the names most affected.
- Caller Drew from Green Bay opens the show with an intriguing scenario — could Kyler Murray's release push Arizona to trade up to one, and would Vegas actually listen?
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Draft Room. |
| 0:19.5 | This is the NFL Draft podcast of the packernet podcast |
| 0:23.5 | network if you'd like to call in if you'd like to participate in the NFL draft discussion |
| 0:29.7 | please feel free to do so the phone number here is 608 561 1343 we do have a call from drew so we'll get to that first and then we'll plan eight, five, six, one, three, two, four, three. |
| 0:38.3 | We do have a call from Drew, so we'll get to that first, and then we'll plan on going |
| 0:43.1 | through the rest of Kevin Cole's article, at least on the defensive side. |
| 0:49.1 | But Drew, what's going on? |
| 0:50.9 | Hey, Ryan, I'm here from Green Bay Bay and um you know I thought that the news that |
| 0:56.3 | Kyler Murray is getting cut is really interesting and the Cardinals I think only have the Vigobi |
| 1:03.8 | percent and slow this um and you know may could there be a possibility that Arizona now trades up to number one overall with Vegas? |
| 1:15.3 | And from Vegas' perspective, obviously they would like a quarterback. |
| 1:19.4 | But if they can trade back two spots and just give up on the quarterback this year and try to build up their team and maybe they can get |
| 1:29.2 | number three overall this year, a first next year, the second this year, a very high second |
| 1:35.3 | this year from Arizona. Like, that could go a long way. You know, they could build their |
| 1:41.6 | offensive line. They could get her stud pass rusher. |
| 1:45.9 | I just think that would be very interesting. |
| 1:48.3 | I think three is still a really good spot to be in this draft. |
| 1:52.2 | Maybe they could trade down again a couple spots and target some of these line men up |
| 1:58.5 | if they don't want to go to pass rush route. |
| 2:02.3 | But I think that would be interesting for Vegas to do. |
| 2:05.9 | And the other thing is, is like, in my opinion, there's only one quarterback to go, you know, top five. |
| 2:14.5 | And I think Simpsons are a first rounder, but not until later, like middle, middle of the |
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