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First Draft

Mel Kiper & Field Yates' Top-10 MOST INTRIGUING prospects of 2026 NFL Draft

First Draft

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to "First Draft." Hosted by Field Yates and Mel Kiper Jr., we're breaking down the 10 most intriguing prospects of the 2026 NFL Draft, featuring Penn State QB Drew Allar and South Carolina WR Nyck Harbor. (0:00) Welcome to First Draft (3:37) Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza (7:13) Penn State QB Drew Allar (10:56) South Carolina WR Nyck Harbor (15:33) Oregon TE Kenyon Sadiq (17:30) Florida State DT Darrell Jackson Jr. (20:35) Alabama S Keon Sabb (22:00) LSU LB Harold Perkins Jr. (25:31) Ohio State LB Sonny Styles (28:00) Michigan S Rod Moore (31:09) Ole Miss Edge Suntarine Perkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Draft fans buckle up and brace yourselves for the League of Intrigue.

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Mel Kuiper Jr., me, Field Gates, begin to break down the most intriguing prospects of the 2026 NFL draft.

0:36.6

That's coming up.

0:37.7

Plus, we'll respond to your questions, your takes, and your draft dreams live as

0:42.1

first draft starts right now.

0:44.4

And hello and welcome back to first draft.

0:47.0

I, of course, in field the eighth.

0:48.7

He is the great, the venerable, the honorable, the legend.

0:51.7

Mel, Kuiper Jr.

0:52.8

And we are live on the NFL on ESPN YouTube

0:56.0

channel plus ESPN2 and wherever you get your podcast.

1:00.3

Mel, where else are we available now? Are we streaming somewhere?

1:03.8

I think we're everywhere field. I think we got it going last week. We were in the midseason

1:08.0

form in terms of prospects. What we're trying to do is just highlight guys that are, we say, intriguing this week, right? We've given you guys your 10 that you looked at throughout the summer. But intriguing guys, for one reason or another, are guys that we're going to highlight today. You have five. I have five. We're going to move through August and September and bring in a light. A lot of guys that you may not be familiar with. Or guys you're familiar with, but a different spin on where they are right now as opposed to where they may be in late April when the draft rolls around. Mel, we'll get to those intriguing players. And by the way, intriguing is one of those words that I like for podcast mail because it's subjective, right? What you find intriguing, I might not find. So I'm not sure we'll have any crossover picks.

1:46.6

We did not compare notes before we submitted them to the great Joe G, our producer.

1:52.0

But I have to share one tweet here, Mel, because I kind of felt the same way.

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