Favorite & Least Favorite 2026 NFL Draft Classes | Which Teams Improved Most And Who Wasted Picks?
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode Mike Renner and JP Acosta recap the 2026 NFL Draft by giving teams they think did the best and worst with their picks.
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(00:00) Intro
(00:29) Mike & JP Grade Their Teams
(6:48) Tampa Bay Buccaneers
(9:35) Las Vegas Raiders
(14:23) Carolina Panthers
(18:03) Cleveland Browns
(23:26) Washington Commanders
(26:28) Miami Dolphins
(30:37) Honorable Mentions
(36:52) Los Angeles Rams
(40:35) Jacksonville Jaguars
(44:50) Pittsburgh Steelers
(49:39) Arizona Cardinals
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into this Monday morning recap edition of pushing the pile, obviously all seven rounds of the NFL draft in the books over the course of the weekend. If you want to check out, I did grades over on CBSSports.com. I graded every single pick for the top hundred. You want to go check that out. Go check that out. I have a video explanation for all those. So we're not going to go through too much pick by pick here today. We're going to do draft classes. We're talking about the draft, the favorite halls. |
| 0:41.7 | And that's some of our least favorite halls. But before we get into that, JP, I want to, I want to know your thoughts on the Jags. |
| 0:49.2 | The Jags are the hottest button topic. James Gladstone is getting, he's getting dragged through the mud. |
| 0:57.1 | What are your initial thoughts on this class? |
| 0:59.9 | So I'm probably going to sound like a homer. |
| 1:02.9 | I'm probably going to sound like I'm coping a little bit. |
| 1:05.7 | But like their day two draft was not bad. |
| 1:08.9 | It was not a bad like overall haul. |
| 1:11.3 | Nate Borkature, we've talked ad nauseum about how we thought he was a sleeper in this class. |
| 1:16.0 | But I think something that they did that I noticed on day two was the blocking tight ends |
| 1:21.2 | came off the board incredibly fast. |
| 1:24.0 | So getting the guy that everybody thought was the second best out of the bunch, I think that's a good idea. |
| 1:29.4 | I do still think, like, yeah, might have been maybe a round or two to rich for Borkature, but if you saw Marlon Klein, Max Clare come off the board, Sam Rouse come off the board after that, you had to go ahead and get your guy because everybody started going after that. |
| 1:46.3 | Emmanuel Pregnana 88 is a steal. |
| 1:48.8 | I thought that he was going to be gone before 56. |
| 1:51.8 | I didn't think they were going to be able to get him at 56. |
| 1:55.5 | Albert Regis is a guy that I think is probably going to be more of a depth guy, |
| 1:59.8 | more of a run defense guy, |
| 2:01.2 | but they already traded for a group from the Falcons. |
| 2:05.8 | So he's going to be more of their pass rusher. |
| 2:08.1 | Regis is going to be more of the run defender. |
| 2:09.5 | And I think this is a sign that they are fine with Ventrell Miller as their second |
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