FIELD YATES' FIRST 2026 NFL MOCK DRAFT! Top-10 breakdown w/Mel Kiper Jr. | First Draft

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

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Welcome back to "First Draft." Hosted by Field Yates and Mel Kiper Jr., we're breaking down the top-10 selections of Field's first Mock Draft of 2026. (0:00) Welcome to First Draft (2:10) No. 1: Browns select Texas QB Arch Manning (7:35) No. 2: Jets selected South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers (10:27) No. 3: Saints select Clemson QB Cade Klubnik (14:34) No. 4: Giants select Clemson DT Peter Woods (17:14) No. 5: Titans select Ohio State S Caleb Downs (19:52) No. 6: Panthers select Auburn Edge Keldric Faulk (22:38) No. 7: Raiders select Utah OT Spencer Fano (25:13) No. 8: Patriots select Clemson Edge T.J. Parker (28:32) No. 9: Rams select Arizona State QB Sam Leavitt (32:28) No. 10: Seahawks select Texas LB Anthony Hill Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.3	Later that day on ESPN 2, Mel, we've already dove in, dove into our quarterbacks, our notable players. And today, your favorite day of the year, you get to pick apart my mock negative 1.0. How you feeling? I feel good. I'm looking at that green machine up there. The JETS, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets. We'll see what you have them doing with Justin Fields.
1:28.9	Maybe he's going to be in the same system for more than one year. And I got the end zone at Keenan Stadium down at a great saying, the scenic Chapel Hill, Keenan Stadium that at Chapel Hill in North Carolina where one Bill Belichick is the head coach, Mike Lombardi, the GM down there for North Carolina. We'll see how that goes. But I'm the end zone today. You're the Jets.
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