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Mel Kiper's MASSIVE NFL DRAFT-STOCK SWINGS! w/Field Yates | First Draft

First Draft

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to "First Draft." Hosted by Mike Greenberg, Field Yates and Mel Kiper Jr., we're breaking down a pivotal Week 5 in College Football, featuring stellar performances from Oregon QB Dante Moore, and Arizona State WR Jordyn Tyson. (0:00) Welcome to First Draft (1:03) Biggest takeaways from Week 5 (3:06) Dante Moore & Drew Allar (16:03) Alabama QB Ty Simpson (18:31) DE Caden Curry & OT Brian Parker II (21:05) Arizona State WR Jordyn Tyson (22:48) USC WR Makai Lemon (25:56) LSU QB Garrett Nussmeier (30:09) Ole Miss TE Dae’Quan Wright (31:02) Harvard QB Jaden Craig (34:02) Texas A&M WR/PR KC Concepcion (35:13) Final thoughts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A week we will remember in April, Mel Kuyper and Field Yates are breaking down the signature

0:06.1

performances from the biggest slate in college football so far. That's coming up. Plus,

0:11.3

we're responding to your questions, your takes, and your draft dreams live as First

0:16.3

Draft starts right now. Hi, everybody, and welcome back to first draft.

0:21.1

Delighted to be with you, as always, on the NFL, on ESPN YouTube channel and on ESPN2, and anywhere else that you get your podcasts.

0:28.5

I am Greenie.

0:29.3

They are the legends, Mel and Field.

0:31.6

We have so much to dive into as we do every single Wednesday here, and then it'll be twice a week after the season ends.

0:38.2

We're going to dive into the impact this weekend's games had on some of the players,

0:43.5

the highest profile players, some good, some not so good as we continue.

0:47.5

But first, Mel, we had circled week five for the longest time.

0:52.1

This was when so many huge games were on the schedule.

0:56.6

Before we dive into the individual players, the weekend certainly lived up to the hype.

1:01.2

What jumped out to you? What was the number one thing that stood out?

1:04.1

It was the quarterback screen. And we had some really good and we had some, ah, not so great.

1:08.8

I think that's what we're going to look at because when you get quarterbacks on the same field, who looks like a franchise quarterback moving forward into the National Football League? Who has that effect? Who has that look? And maybe who doesn't? So I think it was a great evaluation weekend Saturday and Saturday night for some of these quarterbacks that still have a lot of season to go if they aren't yet hitting their stride and some that look like, hey, if I maintain that, there's one in particular. If he maintains, well, you're looking at the number one pick in the NFL draft come late April if he decides to come out early as a 20-year-old quarterback, right? Don't spoil it all, Mel.

1:44.3

On draft day.

1:46.3

Well, my big takeaway from the weekend is that I understand they were in a similar position last

1:51.6

year and they ended up falling to Ohio State.

1:54.5

But it's just a matter of time before Oregon is the king of college football because

1:58.4

Dan Lannning is one of my favorite football coaches at any level

2:02.6

in the way that he gets his team ready for whatever environment he is walking into.

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