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The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Joel Klatt ranks his Top 50 Prospects for the 2026 NFL Draft

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt ranks his top 50 prospects in the upcoming NFL Draft. How high does Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza land on the list as an overall prospect? He also discusses his evaluation of Alabama QB Ty Simpson as his QB2 and how high he should be on his Big Board. Does Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love top the list? How many Ohio State players crack his Top 5 with prospects like Arvell Reese, Caleb Downs, Sonny Styles and Carnell Tate in the Draft? Klatt reveals 3 Wide Receivers inside his Top 15 players including a WR that flew under the radar for much of the College Football season. 0:00-1:22 Intro1:23-2:35 Player 502:36-2:42 Player 492:43-3:06 Player 483:07-3:27 Player 473:28-3:41 Player 463:42-4:21 Player 454:22-4:56 Player 444:57-5:33 Player 435:34-5:55 Player 425:56-6:28 Player 416:29-7:17 Player 407:18-7:41 Player 397:42-8:23 Player 388:24-9:00 Player 379:01-9:30 Player 369:31-9:50 Player 359:51-10:15 Player 3410:16-10:28 Player 3310:29-11:32 Player 3211:33-12:12 Player 3112:13-12:35 Player 3012:36-12:54 Player 2912:55-13:24 Player 2813:25-14:05 Player 2714:06-14:45 Player 2614:46-15:27 Player 2515:28-16:21 Player 2416:22-16:55 Player 2316:56-17:19 Player 2217:20-18:06 Player 2118:07-18:36 Player 2018:37-19:10 Player 1919:11-19:28 Player 1819:29-20:08 Player 1720:09-20:53 Player 1620:54-21:17 Player 1521:18-22:24 Player 1422:25-22:54 Player 1322:55-23:56 Player 1223:57-24:36 Player 1124:37-25:10 Player 1025:11-25:53 Player 925:54-26:36 Player 826:37-27:27 Player 727:28-28:06 Player 628:07-29:12 Player 529:13-30:17 Player 430:18-31:06 Player 331:07-32:10 Player 232:11-35:31 Player 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The top 50 players available in the NFL draft, did he get his foot down?

0:34.1

Omar Cooper, yes, he did back of the end, so that's what I'm talking about. Every single

0:38.5

one of these Ohio State receivers goes into the league and they're ready made to produce

0:42.7

right away. I know some people will say like you can't draft a running back that high in the

0:47.3

first round. Well, maybe you can if it's a talent like this. Number one player on the big board.

0:52.3

This has to do with his play and his value at this

0:55.2

position touchdowns are the best of the country a Joel Clatt show. I'm Joel Clad. This show is

1:18.3

brought to you by Graduate by Hilton. We thank them for their support as always. A big one here today.

1:24.3

We are unveiling our top 50 list here at the Joel Clad show.

1:28.2

That's right.

1:28.9

The top 50 players available in the NFL draft. It's my big board and it's coming straight at you. Hey, just remember, if you haven't subscribed on YouTube, you need to go do that. The show is better on YouTube. So go do that right now. Also hit that notification button. And then if you haven't followed us on social media, we are everywhere that you like to social media. Wherever you like to social media, you can follow us there at Joel Klashow out there on social. Let's go. It's going to be 50 to 1. Let's get into it right away. At number 50 is a guy that I really loved, really loved, during the course of the last couple of years. And the only reason that he's not really the top corner in the draft and a first, for sure, first round pick is his size. That's DeAngelo Ponds from Indiana. So he's going to be number 50 and he measured at 5'8. If he was any taller, if he was six foot with the way he played, there's no doubt he'd be a top 15 pick, but he's 5'8. Even though he's explosive and his vert was 43.5 at the combine, which was exceptional, he's going to get in here at number 50. Now, just remember, this was one of the best defenses in college football at Indiana. And the entire schematics of what they did under

2:34.9

Bryant Haynes, the defense coordinator, revolved around not an interior player, not a defensive

2:40.4

lineman or a pass rusher. It revolved around structurally DeAngelo Pons. They would roll away for him,

2:47.0

create numbers everywhere else on the field, and allow him to kind of take away half the field. That's how good he is. I think he's excellent. I think he could play in the slot as well. So a little bit of a value pick right there. He's going to be number 50 on my big board. Some other corners here that I'm going to get through here as we're kind of deep into this 50. Corner Brandon Sisei from South Carolina, twitchy athlete.

3:09.2

I like him a lot.

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He was at North Carolina State before going to South Carolina.

3:13.3

At 48, I've got corner Kiante Scott from Miami.

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