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The Rich Eisen Podcast

Fantasy Draft Wish Lists by Position + the NFL’s QB Development Problem

The Rich Eisen Podcast

NFL and Rich Eisen

News, Sports, Tv & Film

4.5672 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Marcas Grant, Michael F. Florio, and LaQuan Jones are back with a jam‑packed episode that blends Opening Day excitement with a deep dive into the NFL’s most intriguing offseason storylines. The guys kick things off by discussing Joe Flacco’s return to Cincinnati and what his re‑signing means for the Bengals’ offense — and your fantasy rosters. From there, the crew tackles one of the league’s biggest issues: the ongoing quarterback development problem. That conversation sets the stage for a full fantasy draft wish‑list breakdown, starting with rising prospect Francisco Mendoza and continuing through detailed evaluations of prospects Ty Simpson, Garrett Nussmeier, Drew Allar, Jeremiah Love, Jadarian Price, and Mike Washington Jr. The guys then turn their attention to the top wide receivers in this year’s draft class. They close the show by examining the growing impact of rookie tight ends and why this year’s class could be especially fantasy‑relevant.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:14.8

Hey, everybody.

0:15.7

It's Thursday, March 26, 2026.

0:18.3

Welcome to the NFL fantasy football podcast where you can buy us some peanuts and

0:21.6

Cracker Jacks. Me and your man, M.G. Marcus, Grant, joined by Michael F. Florio and Lequan Jones.

0:26.1

Happy opening day to all who celebrate. One of the best days on the sporting calendar.

0:31.4

Baseball is back. I know we're a fantasy football podcast. Don't care. It's, it's as much

0:36.3

a national sporting holiday as anything in this country. We talk soccer. We talk football. We talk baseball. We talk pretty much everything. We do. We're going to get Laquan into baseball in these next couple of months. You, like, by osmosis, like, we're going to bring you kicking and screaming into this. Like, you don't really have a choice because you're on this show.

0:54.9

That's what's going to happen. I mean, it's you, it's Florio, it's my son. It's like he wants baseball cards now. He's pushing into my face. He wants to play now. And I'm like, dude, what are you doing, man? We're locked in on soccer, man. I feel like this is the perfect opportunity for you to become a baseball fan.

1:11.5

You gotta get it on the ground level with him.

1:13.8

It's something you guys have in common. The Dodgers are great right now. I know I do like the Dodgers. I know. I mean, and the other part of it's like we, because so for everybody who doesn't know, the whole evolution of this is, you know, know as a couple years ago like lequan had never had a

1:29.1

strawberry then we got him to eat one on the show and it became a whole thing and then he learned that there was once a player named darrell strawberry who played for the meds played for the dougars was from los angeles And so then he became like, that was like your favorite player. But like now we got to bring you into the 21st century of baseball. It's like there's a lot of dudes, man. When I was watching, Albert Pujolz are still on the St. Louis Cardinals. I mean, that's, you know, ages ago. All right. All right.

2:02.4

Now he's now trying to become a manager. He's doing Netflix pregame shows now. Like, that's where

2:07.5

we're, that's where we're at with Albert Pruho. Looks. Look, I will just say, uh, to anyone watching

2:14.5

on the video, if you see my eyes kind of look away, it's Paul Skeens versus Freddie Peralta on opening day.

2:20.1

I got to check in here or there.

2:22.2

Not going to lie, I do have it on here to my left as well.

2:25.3

So we will see how distracted we may or may not be during the course of this show.

2:30.2

Anyway, the bigger point for this show today is we are about a month away from the NFL draft starting.

2:39.3

So I think we talk some sort of early draft fantasy wish lists, like where we would like to see some of these guys go to possibly maximize their fantasy value in their rookie seasons.

2:52.0

Now, I broke this into the four main positions, quarterback, running back, wide receiver,

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