ITB: Intel On NFL Draft Prospects, NFL Teams Needs, How Round 1 Shakes Out

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4.6 • 910 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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ITB hosts Adam Caplan and Geoff Mosher share intel they've gathered from personnel execs and coaches around the league on what NFL teams are looking for in the first round, on the prospects at each position, and on which teams are likely to make moves.

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0:00.0	Inside the Birds is back.
0:13.7	What's going on, everybody, Jeff Mosher, Adam Kaplan, and the big day is now less than 48 hours away.
0:21.2	It is actually, well, Thursday night, 8 o'clock.
0:24.3	I'm bad at math.
0:25.1	But either way, Thursday night.
0:26.6	Yeah.
0:27.4	Thank you.
0:28.5	The game with the event, the big event, the first round of the NFL draft will kick off.
0:33.1	And first of all, Adam, I think that after we did, you, me and Andrew DeCheco did the mock draft,
0:40.5	our annual ITB mock draft the other night, we really struggled, just in general,
0:49.0	finding the right pieces, which we previewed.
0:51.0	We said this is going to be a weird first round that many of the top
0:55.0	talents are players who don't play positional value type positions. And so I'm ready for
1:01.4	anything to happen. Six teams have two first round picks. That's pretty landmark. I think
1:07.3	it's going to be really interesting. And there's lots to talk about. But yeah, I think that the first round in general is going to be really interesting and there's lots to talk about.
1:11.4	But yeah, I think that the first round in general is going to be, it's going to be surprising.
1:16.9	I'll say that.
1:17.8	So on that, I had one, I had one personnel executive saying that his team graded just nine players with first round grades, true first round universal grades. Yep. That's on your point about our mock draft, the three of us. Well, that's what made it so tough because you see a need, you go, wow, do they really want to take this player there? Well, they have to take someone. They have to turn a card in it. And I love when fans go, they'll just trade down.
1:45.4	Who wants to trade up?
1:46.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
1:48.6	It's a bad draft for the first round.
1:50.7	Sure, probably 20 of these players will be really good players at the next level down the road.
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