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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

NFL Draft Full Recap: Winners and Losers, Best Picks and Icks, Steelers Embarrassment, and Heifetz's Worst Mispronunciation Yet

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The guys hand out winners and losers from the 2026 NFL draft, from the Raiders’ hope-filled glow-up to the Browns accidentally building a real roster. They also debate Ty Simpson’s bizarre Rams future, clown the Steelers’ draft chaos, and deliver the exact kind of post-draft overreactions this week demands. (00:00) Intro (01:43) Winners (17:47) Losers (42:49) Best pick of the weekend (48:49) Worst pick of the weekend (01:00:55) Dolphins' Kombucha Girl draft (01:07:44) Draft icks of the weekend Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau Check out The Ringer’s 2026 NFL Draft Guide: https://theringer.com/nfl-draft/2026/big-board#content Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com Shop Amazon and save the everyday. Visit amazon.com today. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Austin Gayle, Abou Kamara, Carlos Chiriboga, and Cameron Dinwiddie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Heda, it's your big McDonald's hunger calling.

0:03.0

And it's not just any kind of hunger.

0:05.0

It's the kind that calls for big arch.

0:07.0

Start with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and big arch sauce.

0:10.0

Oh, and don't forget those crispy onions.

0:12.0

Hungry? You are now.

0:15.0

Served from 11 a.m. subject to availability.

0:18.0

Price and participation may vary. Welcome with the ringinger NFL Draft show

0:42.0

Or one week for now

0:43.2

It's going to be The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

0:44.9

My name is Danny Hyphen today

0:45.8

I'm joined in studio in Los Angeles

0:47.8

by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlebeck

0:50.0

The NFL draft is over

0:51.6

DK just contain your excitement

0:53.9

You're so crushed that the draft is over. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I forgot. I forgot whiskey. I know. Oh, yeah. I was like, shit. We got to do shots or something in this show. Danny Kelly has been writing. Danny Kelly graded every single team's draft at NFLdraft.3.com. And he would love if you hate the draft grade he gave your team you should go and add him it's his favorite thing is when oh cardinal's gonna see fuck this guy just let him know directly here's the deal you have to be following me for me to see anything you write to me on instagram or twitter so there you go it's all it's all a scheme guys we are gonna have... I'm going to be up your ass then in the DMs about the Steelers getting a B-plus. You can go and... Like, genuinely with Matt at me this morning. B-plus, are you fucking kidding me? We crushed. Was it because of the McCoy Lemon thing? I would argue that was a good thing. It's actually good. We didn't get the player we wanted. That's great. We're going to have a few episodes this week. We're going to keep having episodes all summer. So if you've enjoyed the draft process, stick with us. And obviously, we are going to get to the NFL season of fantasy football as we get closer to next year. So we're next season. Never too early. That's not true. sometimes it is too early okay we're gonna go through

2:04.5

we're next season. Never too early. That's not true. Sometimes it is too early.

2:03.6

Okay, we're going to go through. We're just going to give some winners, some losers, some awards for this draft. And I would like to humbly submit that the winner of this year's NFL draft is just hope. Okay. It is hope. I think the most hope. Every year, isn't it? it is, but particularly this year,

2:16.4

I think the most hopeless teams

2:17.7

actually have a tremendous amount of hope.

2:19.4

The Raiders,

2:20.6

the Browns, the most hope. It is, but particularly this year, I think the most hopeless teams actually have a

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