First Fantasy Football Draft of 2026 (Episode 963 with Evan Silva, Adam Levitan, Justin Herzig, John Daigle, Sam Brott, Jack Miller)
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Off the back of a hugely successful 2025 fantasy season, Adam Levitan leads a star-studded ETR lineup of Fantasy experts with Evan Silva, Justin Herzig, John Daigle, Sam Brott and Jack Miller in our first 2026 Fantasy Football Draft.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 9663 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:21.8 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:23.4 | The Combine is nearly here. |
| 0:25.1 | Free agency is nearly here. |
| 0:27.1 | The draft is just two months away. |
| 0:28.7 | It is officially time to turn the page to the new season with the first fantasy football |
| 0:36.3 | draft of 2026. |
| 0:38.8 | For this, I am joined by five young men you know in love. |
| 0:43.5 | Evan Silva, how's it going today? |
| 0:45.7 | It's going awesome. |
| 0:46.7 | Yeah, I think that we're coming off our best season of ETR fantasy football |
| 0:51.5 | from a projection standpoint. |
| 0:54.0 | I think that was our seventh was that our seventh season? |
| 0:56.3 | It was. |
| 0:57.3 | So this will be our eighth season, always aiming to improve. |
| 1:00.4 | Hopefully this will be even better in 2026. |
| 1:03.0 | No doubt, Justin Herzig, how's it going today? |
| 1:05.5 | For a team that's usually data and analytics, |
| 1:07.8 | I guess we're probably just going to see some regression this year then, right? |
| 1:45.2 | Herzig, of course, has been in the streets drafting like the true virgin that he is. We'll talk more about that here in a second. Daigle, season long, bro. How's it going today, buddy? As you said, franchise tags are coming down. I'm gearing up the free agent tracker for Silva and I to run together here in a couple weeks. It's all happening. Indeed. Sam Barat, how's it going today? Truly, truly cannot believe that we're already drafting for 2026 and it's only February. But you know what? It's fun. And I'm happy to be here. And Jack Miller from the projections team. How's going today, Jack? |
| 1:49.8 | It's going well. I did a very smart thing in our graph last year and I set the bar extraordinarily low for myself. I think I drafted Gera Wilson on the second round. |
| 1:54.0 | So there's really nowhere to go but up this year. So I'm excited to have a redemption tour. |
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