MEL KIPER'S MOCK DRAFT 1.0! Selections 11-32 w/Field Yates

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Welcome back to "First Draft." Hosted by Mike Greenberg, Field Yates and Mel Kiper Jr., we're breaking down the rest of Mel's first Mock Draft of the 2026 Class. (0:00) Welcome to First Draft (1:00) Drake Maye & Sam Darnold's ascension (4:07) Recapping top-10 picks (5:00) No. 11: Dolphins select DE Keldric Faulk (8:22) No. 14: Ravens select WR Makai Lemon (13:34) No. 15: Buccaneers select TE Kenyon Sadiq (18:10) No. 16: Jets select QB Ty Simpson (via IND) (27:47) No. 19: Panthers select LB CJ Allen (30:58) No. 20: Cowboys select DE Akheem Mesidor (via GB) (34:30) Picks 21-24 (35:04) No. 25: Bears select DT Kayden McDonald (37:55) No. 26: Bills select WR Chris Brazzell II (41:23) No. 29: Rams select OT Monroe Freeling (46:27) Picks 30-32 (47:00) Final thoughts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	A winter storm has passed through, but Mel's mock is still most certainly due. We're breaking down
0:36.5	the rest of Mel's first mock draft of the season.
0:39.5	That's coming up.
0:40.4	Plus, as always, we respond to your questions, your takes, and your draft dreams live as first draft starts right now.
0:48.2	Hello again, everybody.
0:49.4	Delighted to be back with you and delighted to be back with the legends.
0:52.3	Mel Kuiper Jr. and Field Yates, I am Greenie. As we work our way towards the NFL draft, we are now coming your way twice a week
0:59.5	with first draft all the way through up to we get to Pittsburgh in late April. So we have so
1:05.1	much draft conversation and content coming your way. And we will dive into the rest of Mel's mock,
1:11.3	first mock draft of this season.
1:13.8	For those of you who were this last week,
1:15.6	we went through the top 10 picks in Mel's mock number one.
1:18.9	We'll get to the rest of that first round in just a moment.
1:21.6	But before we do that, quick, no huddle topic to start with field Yates,
1:26.3	the NFL, and then there were two. It'll be the
1:28.7	Seahawks and the Patriots in the Super Bowl for the draft people among us. These are two
1:34.6	quarterbacks who both went number three. But then outside of that couldn't have had more
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