FINAL: Identifying the Top 100 Prospects for the 2026 NFL Draft

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🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

NFL Draft experts race to finalize their 2026 big boards as consensus evaporates and surprise prospects climb the rankings. Are teams prepared for the chaos ahead when even the top 100 is a battleground of debate? Joe Marino and Kyle Crabbs break down the hottest names, from quarterbacks Fernando Mendoza and Ty Simpson to wide receivers Carnell Tate and Jordan Tyson, debating where the class’ true value lies. Perennial questions emerge—should Seattle target Jadarian Price at pick 32, or is trading down the smarter move? Which offensive linemen and corners have the traits to become immediate NFL contributors, and can physical specimens like Bryce Lance and Christen Miller silence doubters about their raw resumes? With loaded receiver and edge groups but uncertainty at tight end and running back, the episode spotlights prospects primed to disrupt the draft order. Who will emerge as a first-round shocker on Thursday night?

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0:00.0	The hay is in the barn when it comes to evaluating prospects for the 2026 NFL draft.
0:07.5	So we are stacking up the board today on the locked on NFL scouting podcast.
0:17.3	You are locked on NFL scouting with the draft dudes, your daily podcast for NFL and college football scouting.
0:26.0	Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day.
0:32.0	What's better than this?
0:33.7	It's guys being dudes.
0:36.1	I'm Joe Marino.
0:37.2	That's Kyle Crabs.
0:39.0	On today's episode, we are looking at the final board for the 2026 NFL draft.
0:45.2	Kyle's done a bunch of prospects.
0:47.7	I've done a lot, not quite as many as Kyle.
0:49.5	And so we're going to look at the board, see how things stack up and get ready for this event that we've all
0:55.8	been waiting for on Thursday night. Kyle, welcome in. Yeah, so as his standard practice for
1:02.0	the draft dudes, the artist formerly known as the draft dudes, we get to the week of the draft and we
1:08.3	kind of just go by position by position and list out what our top 100 looks like.
1:13.6	And it's always interesting to do the head count, right, and kind of get a feel for, you know, how many that we have versus standard operating procedure and what the averages usually look like.
1:25.8	And I think this year's class and the numbers that we have for our top 100 versus the norms,
1:33.8	I think paints a really interesting picture.
1:36.9	So we're just going to go position group by position group.
1:39.5	And I'll read out the names that we have on our top 100.
1:44.3	And then we'll talk about any players that have a chance to sneak into that category.
1:51.8	Joe and I, if we didn't necessarily see a player quite the same,
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