Joel Klatt’s 2026 NFL Mock Draft 1.0

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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With the NFL season officially in the books, FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt launches into the offseason with his first Mock Draft for the 2026 NFL Draft. His Mock has 5 Ohio State Buckeyes going in the First Round including one landing with the Dallas Cowboys. The Kansas City Chiefs are able to select a weapon for Patrick Mahomes as they look to rebound from a disappointing 2025 season. The Philadelphia Eagles also make an upgrade to their Offense with a player that is tailor-made for their Offense to go with Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley. Cleveland is able to upgrade the talent around Shedeur Sanders with two First Round Picks. Klatt also answers the question of whether there will be a second QB in the First Round as Alabama QB Ty Simpson goes to an AFC team looking for a quarterback of the future. 0:00 - Intro1:56 - Pick 1: Raiders4:21 - Pick 2: Jets6:03 - Pick 3: Cardinals7:05 - Pick 4: Titans8:08 - Pick 5: Giants9:48 - Pick 6: Browns10:53 - Pick 7: Commanders11:35 - Pick 8: Saints12:40 - Pick 9: Chiefs14:56 - Pick 10: Bengals15:04 - Pick 11: Dolphins16:18 - Pick 12: Cowboys17:54 - Pick 13: Rams19:33 - Pick 14: Ravens20:47 - Pick 15: Bucs21:58 - Pick 16: Jets23:03 - Pick 17: Lions24:02 - Pick 18: Vikings25:00 - Pick 19: Panthers25:49 - Pick 20: Cowboys26:51 - Pick 21: Steelers28:10 - Pick 22: Chargers29:11 - Pick 23: Eagles30:21 - Pick 24: Browns31:46 - Pick 25: Bears32:57 - Pick 26: Bills34:00 - Pick 27: 49ers34:45 - Pick 28: Texans35:30 - Pick 29: Rams36: 07 - Pick 30: Broncos37:10 - Pick 31: Patriots38:02 - Pick 32: Seahawks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This guy is a football nerd in the best possible sense of the word. He reminds me so much of Micah Parsons. This is the highest the Chiefs have drafted since 2017. They need to give Mahomes a little bit of a spark. This guy can do just about everything. He is an NFL all pro waiting in the wings.
0:25.1	Touchdown. These fans are the best in the country. A day like today is why we love college
0:32.4	football. Hey, welcome into the program.
0:42.0	This is the Joel Klats show.
0:43.1	I'm Joel Kladen.
0:43.7	This show is brought to you by graduate by Hilton.
0:46.1	We thank them for their support as always.
0:48.9	And we have got a great one for you here today.
0:53.3	Our first mock draft is here. Post-Super Bowl, we all love
0:58.7	the post-super Bowl hangover, don't we? Yeah, sure we do. But why not get it started with a little
1:03.3	mock draft? We got to get set for next season in the National Football League. Plus, we've been
1:09.2	covering all of these guys throughout their career in college football. As you know, I've been on NFL draft networks, draft coverage for about what, the last six or seven years. And so I love this time of year. It's an opportunity to just look forward and present some hope to some NFL franchises. That's exactly what we're going to do here today. Hey, if you have not subscribed over on the YouTube channel, please go and do that. You can hit subscribe, hit notify. Then you'll know when all of our content drops. We're going to have a ton of content specifically for the draft and also just college football in general during the course of the off season. So you're going to want to be here for that. And then if you have not followed us on social media, you can do that
1:45.1	regardless of where you like the social media. And you can follow us at Joel Klashow out there.
1:50.6	And you get all of our content in shorter form. So you'll be ready to go. Let's get into it here.
1:57.2	Mock draft 1.0 here for the 2026 NFL draft.
2:01.7	And we get started with the Raiders, the Las Vegas Raiders.
2:06.0	And I think we all know where they're going here with this pick.
2:09.1	Listen, the Raiders, nothing went right for them with Pete Carroll and his first year there.
2:14.0	He's fired after just one year.
2:15.7	He had brought in Chip Kelly to run the offense. He was let go
2:19.1	mid-year. This is one of the worst scoring offenses that we've seen in a long time, certainly the
2:23.9	worst this last year. They're going to be able to hire Clint Kubiak now from Seattle that the Super
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