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NFL Draft Day 1 Recap; Day 2 Preview

NFL Live

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3.7588 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Laura Rutledge and the crew recap an eventful first round of last night’s NFL Draft, including the Rams’ surprising selection of Ty Simpson. Plus, Caleb Downs falling all the way to the Cowboys pick at 11. Also, they preview the top players still on the board who are likely to hear their names called in Rounds 2 and 3. All that and more on NFL Live! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.0

We had high expectations for the Steel City, and boy did Pittsburgh deliver.

0:38.2

They love their football more than most things here, and night one of the NFL draft brought record crowds.

0:44.6

It also brought us franchise changers, a couple big surprises, lightning fast-paced on the picks,

0:50.6

raw emotion and an excitement for the future that makes you remember round one fondly.

0:56.0

Now the work intensified. Teams are built in earnest on Friday and Saturday of the draft.

1:01.0

We'll dissect round one in full here for the next two hours as well as all you need to know about the best available as we count down to the start of round two.

1:11.4

We got a Colt fan with the camera there, a little selfie video as fans are starting to fill in here.

1:17.4

Welcome to NFL live presented by Lowe.

1:20.9

Pittsburgh delivered last night, as I said, we'll see what they bring tonight.

1:24.3

We expect another massive crowd.

1:26.6

As you see the camera flying over to us,

1:28.4

that's Swagoo waving from the bottom there. You're going to see us all. Oh, Swag. Now we're here. What's up, everybody? What's happening? Marcus, Meena Khymes, Ryan Clark, Dan Orloskey, Field Yates, and Peter Schrager, as well as Adam Schaeffer, will join us throughout. Swag's feeling good. He thinks the Cowboys had a good first round. And we're going to

1:45.6

dive into all of it. You guys the Cowboys had a good first round.

1:45.2

And we're going to dive into all of it. You guys, let's start with, I didn't mention Ty Simpson yet, Dan. I'm sorry. We're going to get to that, okay? One of the bigger first round surprises, Ty Simpson, the quarterback out of Alabama, taken at 13th overall by the L.A. Rams. An ideal situation for Simpsons and still get to learn behind Matthew Stafford and Sean McVeigh very clear last night that this is Stafford's team. I asked Simpson, what it would be like to learn from McVeigh and Stafford? Yeah, I mean, two of the greatest minds in, you know, offense, especially with, you know, Coach McVeigh and the quarterback offensive standpoint.

2:19.8

And then, you know, Matthew is one of the greatest of all times.

2:21.4

So I'm looking forward to it.

2:25.6

All right, Dan, I'm going to say this once.

2:26.3

Congratulations.

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