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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Greg McElroy and Dan Orlovsky breakdown NFL draft prospects | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Greg McElroy and Dan Orlovsky take a look at the top draft quarterbacks and breakdown what Fernanado Mendoza, Ty Simpson, Garrett Nussmeier, Carson Beck and Drew Allar do well and what they need to work on at the next level. Plus, the guys explain why Jeremiyah Love is the most complete prospect in the draft and the NFL should not overthink it, why Rueben Bain is the best DEFENDER in the draft, and debate who the best wide receiver is in the draft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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terms apply. I'm so much higher on Ty Simpson than probably the national media. I think he's far

0:35.5

closer to QB2 and the conversation of those two guys rather than QB3.

0:40.3

And I say this just for the context of how I think how impressive his tape is.

0:48.3

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host Greg Greg McElroy, and we appreciate you being here with us today.

0:55.2

Today we're going to do a little bit of a spin here on college football. We usually are deep in the college football weeds, but this is a unique time of year where some of our favorite players are transitioning from college, where we watched them, supported them,

1:12.9

cheered for them, saw them develop before our very eyes to now becoming professionals.

1:18.1

So what we're going to do is we're going to bring in Dan Orlovsky, who dials into the tape

1:22.6

as much as anyone that covers the NFL. I really trust his opinion on a lot of these guys. We're

1:28.6

going to dive into some of the top quarterbacks. What makes Fernando Mendoza special? What makes

1:32.7

Ty Simpson special? Why is Ty Simpson potentially locked down the number two quarterback spot? Who's

1:38.9

QB3? Who's QB4? We've been asking about Drew Aller. Where will he potentially fall? And what did things

1:45.1

look like as he projects to the next level? Then we'll ask him about a few other position players

1:49.1

that I love from having covered them in college over the last few years from Jeremiah Love to

1:53.9

Ruben Bain and naturally, Ohio State. Who's the best Ohio State player in this draft? And there's a lot. I think if I were to

2:02.0

put together a top 10 of NFL draft prospects, I think Ohio State would have four of the top 10,

2:09.9

which goes to show you how good that team was. And what's amazing is that three of those four

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played on the defensive side of the football. As always, we encourage you to subscribe to the podcast. You can always check us out on the ESPN College Football YouTube page. And like I said, we don't do a lot of NFL talk and we're not going to do it today. But I am curious about some of our favorite players in the last few years and how we think they might transition into watching them on Sunday.

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