NFL Cover Zero: Draft Week and Round 1 Mock Draft
NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Matt Jones is excited for Draft Week and wonders if teams will draft for production or potenial. Do the Raiders draft Fernando Mendoza to play or to sit him for a while? Where will the surprises by and how closely will teams stick to their needs? Matt reacts to the Bengals trading for Dexter Lawrence while wondering what Aaron Rodgers' future in Pittsburgh will be. Plus, every pick for every team in Round 1!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and IHeart podcast. |
| 0:18.4 | All right. |
| 0:19.2 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:20.1 | It has been a while. It is Cover zero. A new episode. It's your NFL |
| 0:25.0 | draft preview episode. And I'm excited to be here. The draft is one of my favorite days of the |
| 0:32.2 | year from a sports perspective. I think it's just since I was a kid. I wanted to be, it was like my internal |
| 0:38.4 | goal of being a GM. I think I knew as a kid, I could not be a player, but I felt like I could |
| 0:46.5 | pick a team and this is the, I think the NFL draft is the best draft because you can actually build a team. |
| 0:55.9 | You can watch it develop. |
| 0:57.5 | And there are gyms to be found throughout. |
| 1:01.6 | And my co-host, Drew Franklin, has had a baby. |
| 1:04.7 | He has been the general manager of a new family, except this time the choice was made |
| 1:09.8 | for him as to who would be on his squad. |
| 1:12.5 | So congratulations. He has a new daughter, Avery Rose Franklin. So please send your congratulatory |
| 1:19.6 | messages and, I don't know, toys to Drew Franklin. Billy is here. He's going to do the draft preview with me while Drew is with |
| 1:29.9 | his young daughter on paternity leave. Billy, are you excited for the draft? I'm very excited. First of all, |
| 1:36.1 | very happy for Drew and Abby and Avery. Unfortunately, that girl is going to have to be a Titans fan, |
| 1:42.1 | so that'll be the one fan. A life of misery. |
| 1:44.3 | Yeah. No, I don't know. Maybe they've turned it around. Well, they could be making a big selection here soon with the fourth overall pick. But yeah, excited about the draft. I got to go to the one in Tennessee a few years ago. And, man, just a swarm of people. They really make it into an event unlike any other draft. Yeah, Pittsburgh this year. The city of bridges. |
| 2:01.0 | Also, you might be watching this on a video. |
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