NFL Draft Day Two Recap: Cardinals Draft Carson Beck & Steelers Take Drew Allar, Defensive Players at a Premium and Tight End Frenzy
NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Move the Sticks is back with analysis from Day Two of the 2026 NFL Draft. Bucky Brooks and Lance Zierlein navigate the biggest storylines from the second and third rounds, including the staggering number of tight ends taken after Philadelphia started the avalanche with their pick of Eli Stowers. The duo also covers what the selection of Carson Beck and Drew Allar means for the Cardinals and Steelers, respectively. Plus, Bucky and Lance share prospects that they expect to fly off the board in Day Three.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.9 | Welcome to Move with the Sticks. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm here with Lance Zerlion, and we are going to talk about all things that |
| 0:15.9 | happen on day two of the NFL draft. |
| 0:18.7 | Second and third round in the books, 100 picks are put away, and we are on the, I guess we're kind of on the back nine going |
| 0:26.5 | into tomorrow. |
| 0:27.3 | But initially, just your thoughts because it is funny, Lance, because we do all this prep going |
| 0:33.2 | into it. |
| 0:33.6 | We have kind of these themes that we're thinking about going into the event, and now |
| 0:38.6 | we're here. What are some of the things that stand out to you right away? Well, I think, you know, |
| 0:44.2 | the first, the first night we saw the run on tackles, and then, you know, we had tackles that didn't |
| 0:49.9 | go. But I think it's still, it still has to do with, you know, watching the rushers come off |
| 0:55.9 | the board. |
| 0:56.9 | And watching every year this happens, and I, and I, it shouldn't be something new, but every |
| 1:04.0 | year, it's amazing how the smallest pick, one pick, can trigger an avalanche of a run |
| 1:09.6 | at a position. |
| 1:10.4 | Like, it doesn't take much for all the general managers to be very antsy, and all of a sudden, you know, one center goes or one tight end goes, and then two tight ends going and bang, bang, bang, trade, trade, trade, and everyone's trying to get up, and it's a mad dash for position. So that's like, that's just a mechanism of the draft that always fascinates |
| 1:27.9 | me about which teams are going to be patient and which teams are saying, we got to have this player, we're going to hold back until there's a run. And when there's a run, we better have a trade partner ready to roll. Yeah, no, it's funny because everyone is looking for that run and we had a few different runs. I mean, we had the run with the tight ends. We had to run but the tackles. |
| 1:44.4 | We had to run with some of the DBs and those things. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh, how can we forget the wide receivers? And it all kind of just is the domino effect as you talk about it. The thing that I look at when I'm looking back at the board and looking at some of the guys that have gone is, okay, the second round, you kind of kind of know, all right, man, here are the good news. You had an opportunity to reset. Let's make sure some of the notable names go early, and we saw that happen in this draft. We talk about Deshaun Striplin being the first one off the board. Yeah, I was a little surprised by that. But that's just what's your flavor of ice cream, right? I thought Denzel Boston, but stripling has really good tape, too. It's just a matter of what kind of deep threat do you want? Yeah, so he comes off the board, and then you see, like, initially, like Chase Besanis, a guard goes, and edge defender. But then, Cade McDonald, to me, is when we kind of start setting off the run stoppers |
| 2:35.7 | going Cade McDonald goes to your Houston Texans a few picks later you end up seeing |
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