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First Draft

Mel Kiper's top DAY-2 VALUE PICKS of 2026 NFL Draft! w/Field Yates

First Draft

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to "First Draft." Hosted by Field Yates and Mel Kiper Jr., we're breaking down the best-value selections of players who will likely be taken in Rounds 2 or 3 or the 2026 NFL Draft. 00:00 Welcome to First Draft + Senior Bowl Discussion 05:02 2026 NFL Draft Day 2 Value Picks 05:45 Georgia WR Zachariah Branch 08:38 Indiana WR Omar Cooper Jr 10:57 Notre Dame RB Jadarian Price 13:19 Ohio State TE Max Klare 15:54 Florida OL Jake Slaughter 17:47 Georgia Tech OL Keylan Rutledge 19:31 Cincinnati LB Jake Golday 21:50 Florida CB Devin Moore 23:07 Indiana CB D'Angelo Ponds 28:00 Pittsburgh S Kyle Louis 30:53 Toledo S Emmanuel McNeil-Warren 35:00 Players to Watch at Senior Bowl 40:44 Notre Dame WR Malachi Fields 45:51 Clemson Edge T.J. Parker 48:55 Final thoughts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:32.2

Round one is when the draft starts, but day two is when the fund officially begins.

0:38.7

Mel Kuiper Jr. and me Field Gates are going to give you, but day two is when the fund officially begins. Mel Kuyper Jr. and me,

0:44.3

Field Gates, are going to give you our top day two value picks of the 26 NFL draft. That's coming up. Plus, we're responding to your questions, your takes, and your draft dreams live as

0:49.2

first draft starts right now. Welcome in to first draft. I am Field Yates, joined as always by Mel Kuyper Jr.

0:57.4

It's for just one day, but we got a lot to get to Mel, and as you know, of course, the draft

1:03.1

is seven rounds, Mel. We get fixated on just the first draft all too often, the first round

1:08.4

of the draft. That's why we named the show First Trapp. We have great, great stuff coming up. But Mel, as of course you can see, I am not in Bristol right now in

1:16.2

our studio. I'm not in my home. I am down in Mobile, Alabama. And Mel, can I begin with a declaration,

1:21.9

which is that yesterday, Tuesday, when I arrived, and keep in mind that I just shoveled 25 inches

1:27.3

of snow over this past weekend.

1:29.0

I've never been colder than I was in my life yesterday because I showed up to Alabama

1:33.3

thinking I was going to get a reprieve from the cold and somehow it dropped to about 25 degrees here.

1:39.2

What kind of alternate universe have I entered down here in Mobile?

1:43.6

I started going to Mobile in 1983 field, okay? 1983. Some days, some weeks it was maybe 70 degrees, some weeks it was some 40-some degrees field. So you never know what you're going to get in late January in Mobile, Alabama. But hopefully the weather gets better. It's football weather at least. At least you can say that. It's football weather.

2:01.8

Yeah, that's right.

2:02.6

That's right.

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