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Hour 2: Mel's Final Mock, NBA Playoffs Preview, WrestleMania

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Get Up resumes with the last edition of Mel Kiper's mock draft! Will Dallas make a MONSTER draft day trade for Sonny Styles? (0:00) Meanwhile - Stump the Shump: what happens if the Knicks lose in the Conference Semis, and how many points does Ant need to average to pull off a 1st round upset over the Nuggets? (14:50) Then - Mel's Mock has Jeremiyah Love going 4th overall to the Titans? Cam Ward, Jeremiyah Love and Wan'Dale Robinson in the same offense? Sheeesh!! (23:30) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.9

Well, it's a special day. Today's Jackie Robinson day across Major League Baseball and we have a

0:35.9

special ESPN telecast for you. Mets and Dodgers finishing up their three game series. Shohay Otani will be the starting pitcher. Joe Buck, Ron Darling, Oral Hirshazzar will be on the call. Joe doesn't do a lot of these games. That should be a lot of fun. Coverage begins nine Eastern tonight. Again, obviously an incredibly special day all across Major League Baseball.

0:54.3

And as we begin our number two of get up this morning, I'm not going to lie to it.

0:57.8

I am fired up. A lot of good debates. NBA and NFL.

1:02.0

The draft is eight days away. It is my favorite event of the entire year. We will be in Pittsburgh.

1:08.1

Kmart will be in Dallas covering the Cowboys side of it. Mel Kuiper Jr. is the man who invented the draft.

1:13.6

He invented the mock draft.

1:15.6

And this morning he releases his final mock draft of this cycle.

1:19.6

So I want to call your attention to a few things you see on your screen.

1:23.6

He has the fourth pick.

1:24.6

The first three, everyone probably projects. He has Jeremiah Love going four to Tennessee. He has Caleb Downs going five to the Giants. He has the Cowboys trading up to six with Cleveland to take Sunny Stiles. And then as you see at the bottom of the screen, he does have Ty Simpson being drafted in round one in a trade up from the Cardinals trading back into the end of round one.

1:47.0

So let's dive into all of this again with the man who invented the draft and that's Mel Kuiper Jr.

1:51.0

Let's start with the aggressive move.

1:53.0

You love the Cowboys going up there and getting sunny styles at six.

1:57.0

Mel, tell the people why.

2:00.0

Pretty big D makes a big splash, right? D defense, uh-uh. at 6. Mel, tell the people why.

2:04.1

Great Big D makes a big splash, right? D defense?

2:08.4

Uh-uh. It's not existent last year. And you see Sunny Styles flying all over the field testing off the charts. Here's what we got. We're at 12 and 20 right now, right? They have

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