Draft Takeaways with Mel Kiper, Jr. and Field Yates

The Adam Schefter Podcast

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4.4 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Adam recaps the draft with Mel Kiper, Jr. and Field Yates including why Mel was nervous before the first round, the streak that continues, their biggest takeaways, Shedeur sliding to the 5th round, teams with questionable drafts, the top of the 2026 class, teams with good drafts, and more. 0:00 Welcome 4:34 Why Mel was nervous 6:50 Mel's streak continues 12:05 Biggest takeaways 17:40 Shedeur's slide 35:45 Teams with questionable drafts 40:02 preview of 2026 class 43:12 Teams with good drafts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.5	Welcome back to the Adam Schaefter podcast.
0:35.6	We are through the 2025 NFL draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and because it was so big,
0:39.6	and because there were so many storylines, we figured that today we would put off the weekly six-pack to a separate podcast that will release on Tuesday.
0:47.7	And on Monday, we will turn to our draft experts, the legendary Mel Kuiper Jr. and the young aspiring
0:57.5	field Yates to break down this year's wins and losses, the saga of Shador Sanders,
1:05.3	and who will be the top quarterbacks and players in the 2006 NFL draft. Without further ado, Mel Kuyper Jr.
1:15.8	and Field Yates. Gentlemen, welcome. How does it feel like the draft over? Well, I'll let Fielding go first.
1:24.4	No, we always defer to age in these parts. Come on, Mel, fire away. I got back yesterday and I was trying to check the undrafted free agents, but what I did
1:31.8	even before that, I went back even to the draft, because which you guys have to realize
1:35.1	Adam, I've always been with the mocks thinking a player went to the team I mocked them to
1:40.4	when he really didn't. So you kind of got to recalibrate your brain to say, okay, who did
1:45.3	they actually go to? And it's really hard to take out of your mind what we've done for the last
1:50.1	three months, you know, thinking Mason Graham was Jacksonville. No, Mason Graham's Cleveland. He was
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