MEL KIPER'S 2026 NFL DRAFT GRADES w/Field Yates & Greeny!

First Draft

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Welcome to the season-finale of "First Draft." Mike Greenberg, Field Yates and Mel Kiper Jr. close the book on the 2026 NFL Draft season with final team-grades! 00:00 Welcome to the show! 2:00 Mel Kiper Jr.’s 2026 NFL Draft Grades 5:53 Los Ángeles Rams select Ty Simpson 11:40 Raiders select Fernando Mendoza 14:45 New York Jets draft grade 21:28 Arizona Cardinals draft grade 25:30 Tennessee Titans draft grade 30:00 New York Giants draft grade 33:50 Dallas Cowboys draft grade 37:37 Philadelphia Eagles draft grade 42:00 Final 2026 NFL Draft notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hader, it's your big McDonald's hunger calling.
0:03.4	And it's not just any kind of hunger.
0:04.9	It's the kind that calls for big arch.
0:07.0	Start with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and big arch sauce.
0:10.3	Oh, and don't forget those crispy onions.
0:12.6	Hungry?
0:13.3	You are now.
0:16.7	Saved from 11 a.m. subject to availability.
0:18.7	Price and participation may vary.
0:22.1	The 2026 draft class is officially dismissed. Next up, the report cards. Mel Kuiper and Field
0:29.4	Yates give their final draft grades after an eventful weekend in the Steel City. That is coming up.
0:35.6	Plus, as always, we respond to your questions,
0:37.9	your takes, and your draft reactions live as first draft starts right now.
0:47.0	But there's another tradition here.
0:49.2	Got some pumpkin pie. What is the proper way to digest and easily To digest and easily shake it up. Here we go.
0:55.6	And what in a work or a specific kind of whipped cream? You get that. That three,
0:59.7	that's where you're ready wet, right? To keep your finger. Take a face.
1:02.7	There you go. Wait. All right. All right.
1:06.8	Take about it. All right. Think about it.
1:09.7	Well, the final time. All right. Take a mouth, please. There's just going to put in front.
1:18.4	Well, the final topping has been put on the dessert of the 2026 NFL draft.
1:24.5	But we are here to be the ready whip, whip cream, if you will, to finish everything up.
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