Mendoza goes first & Rams cause a stir on day one of the Draft
Inside The Huddle
Sky Sports
4.4 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Neil and Jeff are back together to take a look at the first day of the 2026 NFL Draft on the latest episode of Inside The Huddle.
They discuss some of the key picks, including Fernando Mendoza getting the No.1 pick and going to the Las Vegas Raiders, and Jeremiyah Love heading to the Arizona Cardinals.
Plus, they chat about the Los Angeles Rams's decision to select Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson at No.13.
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| 0:00.0 | Go inside the huddle with Sky Sports, Neil Reynolds and Jeff Rimbaud. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Inside the Huddle. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm your host, Neil Reynolds, joined as ever by my partner, Jeff Reimbo. |
| 0:19.8 | We're going to look back on day one of the |
| 0:22.4 | 2026 NFL draft. Jeff is in Pittsburgh. He was there on opening night, Jeff, when there were |
| 0:29.5 | more than 300,000 fans in attendance, a record for day one. What was the atmosphere like? |
| 0:37.1 | It was electric. And you know, this is, |
| 0:38.7 | Neil, you know this city. You've been here for games. You've been in the stadium. This is a football |
| 0:43.4 | town. When you think about, you think about the, both the college football Hall of Fame and the |
| 0:48.3 | NFL Hall of Fame, within 50 miles of Pittsburgh, you could put a, you can put a super team together. I mean, you're talking about |
| 0:55.8 | Dan Marino, you're talking about Joe Namath, you're talking about, you know, some of the |
| 1:00.4 | greatest at every position that have ever played the game. The University of Pittsburgh, which is |
| 1:05.0 | not a team that you think of as a superpower team. They've got 11 college football Hall of Famers themselves, |
| 1:13.1 | all the way back to Mike Ditka and, you know, Tony Dorset. And I mean, it's, it's incredible. |
| 1:19.6 | This is the sort of day, Jeff, late night or early morning, whichever way you do it, |
| 1:24.0 | where, yeah, we'll sip our coffees while we do this podcast. |
| 1:28.2 | Hey, the only thing, I'll tell you you the only thing that was missing there was there was an element missing in and |
| 1:35.0 | as i was as i was doing the red carpet stuff and and then we walked over to to do you know for the |
| 1:42.9 | draft was you. |
| 1:46.1 | I really, I really missed having you there. |
| 1:48.7 | It's, it's, you know, again, it, I don't know. |
| 1:53.8 | It's just, I, I missed you. |
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