FIELD YATES' MOCK DRAFT 3.0: Top-10 breakdown w/Mel Kiper Jr.!

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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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 third NFL Mock Draft of the 2026 season. (0:00) Welcome to First Draft (2:51) No. 1: QB Fernando Mendoza to Raiders (5:15) No. 2: LB Arvell Reese to Jets (8:00) No 3: OT Francis Mauigoa to Cardinals (12:33) No. 4: Edge David Bailey to Titans (14:35) No. 5 Caleb Downs to Giants (18:59) No. 6: OT Spencer Fano to Browns (21:54) No. 7: WR Carnell Tate to Giants (24:47) No. 8: WR Jordyn Tyson to Saints (32:31) No. 9: RB Jeremiyah Love to Chiefs (35:30) No. 10: Edge Rueben Bain Jr. to Bengals (39:00) Recapping Top-10 + Final thoughts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What happened?
0:05.1	From director Maggie Jelenhall.
0:07.0	We dug you up and brought you back to life.
0:10.4	Starring award winners Jesse Buckley.
0:12.4	What did you want with a dead girl?
0:14.4	And Christian Bale.
0:15.6	I'm the same.
0:16.5	Born from the dead.
0:17.6	A master.
0:18.4	With Peter Sarnsguard, Annette Benning, and Penelope Cruz.
0:21.4	The dead have got something to say, and I'm saying it.
0:25.0	Every funny screen.
0:26.8	The ride in cinemas March 6.
0:30.9	They say the third time's a charm, but for mock draft season, we just keep on, keeping on.
0:37.0	Mel Kuiper Jr. is on standby. We're going to dive in and grade my third mock draft of the 2026 season. That's coming up. We'll also respond to your questions, your takes, and your draft dreams live as first draft starts right now. Hello, and welcome back into first draft. He is Mel Kuyper Jr. I am Field Yates. Thanks for checking us out here on the NFL on ESPN YouTube channel or ESPN2. Or if you're listening on the podcast, thank you for that as well. We have a huge jam-pack show coming up here, Mel, is the top 10 of my latest mock draft will be unveiled. Good morning to you, Mel.
1:11.5	Can you give us mock a grade? Because I know you've been studying this thing, head to toe,
1:16.6	since it debuted on ESPN.com earlier today. Well, since it didn't differ too much from things we
1:22.6	were thinking about, you got one little surprise, a little curve bow in there. I'll say,
1:27.2	A minus fielding. I was going to go B minus. This is just have a little fun, little curve bow in there. I'll say A minus fielding.
1:28.4	I was going to be a B minus. This is just to have a little fun, but now that would be too harsh to be ridiculous. Now, I'd say an A minus because there was a three or four guys that I might have had in your mock overall that you didn't have. But that's just a little bit difference of opinion and trying to fit needs in as well. But in terms of the top 10, there's only one team and one player that you had is a little bit of a surprise to me. And we'll
1:50.5	get to that as we move forward through the top 10 of the mock draft. Mel, you know how kids come home
1:55.0	from school with their report cards or their strong grades and they hang it up on their refrigerator.
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