is with us. Ben is a multi-time mock draft champion. He'll explain shortly about the

contest that he enters every year. His mock is final. We'll get to that in a moment. But, you know,

there are a lot of people. I know this seems incredible to many of you listening, but I know this to be true

because I talk to these people. A lot of people that literally tune in today for the first time,

and they're trying to get caught up on what this draft is about, and they're going to sit and

watch tonight because it's a highly entertaining television show,

and they'll be very interested, but they don't have all of the background that we've been

discussing and obsessing over for weeks and months.

So I want you to start there with just for somebody that doesn't and hasn't been following the day to day of this 2026 NFL draft,

give that person 30 seconds on what this draft is about and then maybe end with relative to our

team what comes before our pick and the trigger point, the important pick that may tell the tale on what's available at 7.

Go.

Sure.

You know, some years you hear that a draft is considered to be really good.

No, the years is considered to be not so good.

That's about projection of, like, best intel they have.

What do you see going forward with this group?

And this particular year feels like it's one of the weaker years in some time.

Once you get past the top 10 or 11 picks, really the talent pool seems to drop off,

and it kind of flattened that over the next few rounds.

And even in the top of the draft, you know, there's only one quarterback projected to go pretty high. Fernando Mendoza to the Raiders, and number one is basically a lock. And then after that, it just kind of, you know, there's some guys that are interesting, but there's not a lot of love for the top, and that's where Washington is facing.

On the one hand,

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