NFL Draft Round 1 Reaction: Ty Simpson selected by Rams + Favorite landing spots
Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
April 24: Matthew (@MatthewBerryTMR), Jay (@croucherJD), and Lawrence (@LordDontLose) react to every fantasy-relevant pick on the first night of the NFL Draft, including Jeremiyah Love landing with the Cardinals, the Titans picking Carnell Tate 4th, and the shocking selection of Ty Simpson to the Rams at 13th overall. The trio also analyzes Kenyon Sadiq being drafted by the Jets, Makai Lemon heading to the Eagles, and Jadarian Price being drafted by the Seahawks to wrap the 1st Round.
(0:35) – What the crew is looking forward to most entering Round 1 of the Draft + Lawrence’s bold prediction on Thursday Night
(9:55) – Raiders select Fernando Mendoza 1st Overall
(12:55) – Cardinals select Jeremiyah Love 3rd Overall
(15:15) – Titans select Carnell Tate 4th Overall
(17:17) – Saints select Jordyn Tyson 8th Overall
(20:03) – Rams select Ty Simpson 13th Overall
(24:05) – Jets select Kenyon Sadiq 16th Overall
(27:45) – Eagles select Makai Lemon 20th Overall
(31:20) – Browns select KC Concepcion 24th Overall
(34:50) – Jets select Omar Cooper Jr. 30th Overall
(38:48) – Seahawks select Jadarian Price 32nd Overall
(43:00) – Round 1 wrap-up: Biggest takeaways + Favorites fits for Rounds 2-3
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| 0:00.0 | Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Fantasy Football Happy Hour. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jay Croucher here with Lawrence Jackson, Matthew Barry. |
| 0:14.0 | Decide to give Connor Rogers the day off. |
| 0:16.0 | He's not a big draft guy, so I think he's doing something else, |
| 0:19.0 | watching the Mets try and lose again to the twins. But looking forward to a big evening round one of the draft. Matthew, what are you most excited for? I'm excited for two. I mean, where does Jeremiah Love go? Right? Like, we thought the Titans. No, I said after my draft column, my Combine Rumors Calm, I said, I'm hearing the Titans at Fort. |
| 0:37.9 | And I was like, that's crazy. He's going to the Chiefs or the Saints. Free agency happens. Then it's like, oh, he's definitely going to the Titans. Now there's rumors about the Cardinals. Just a couple minutes ago, there's a rumor tweet coming out that Brian Baldinger says they think the commanders are going to trade up for Jeremiah Love. So finding out where Jeremiah Love, who's going to be a top 10 fantasy running back wherever he lands, |
| 0:58.0 | to me that's the most interesting storyline for us tonight. |
| 1:01.0 | For me, it's, you know, the possibility of, you know, what type of trade happens in the first round |
| 1:08.0 | that maybe involves a veteran, maybe it doesn't, but those first |
| 1:12.0 | round picks moving up, moving back to get more. I just want to see what's going to be that, |
| 1:17.1 | you know, that big trade of the draft. A.J. Brown, go to the Eagles in the middle of the |
| 1:23.6 | draft. So for me, it's just like the possibility of that one big draft trade. |
| 1:28.8 | Yep. For me, I'm most excited about who my cults are going to take. Oh, wait, don't have a first round pick. Trained for Sorse Gardner to go all into win the Super Bowl and didn't make the playoffs. Do you have a bet? Do you have a favorite prop bet that you're drafting for, that you have for this that you're rooting for? Yeah, well as we look at the draft order for the first |
| 1:47.1 | rounds. I'm not going to prop bet that you're drafting for, that you have for this that you're rooting for? |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah, well, as we look at the draft order for the first round, I'm not 100% convinced that |
| 1:50.1 | anyone knows what the Cardinals are doing at three. I know there's been some Jeremiah love |
| 1:54.8 | buzz, but I think that there's a chance that they might just go offensive line at three, |
| 1:59.4 | and that's certainly an underdog in the market, |
| 2:01.5 | people expecting that they will go edge rush or potentially Jeremiah Love, but I think they might |
| 2:06.1 | just go O-Line at 3. Matthew mentioned Love and your commanders. The commanders at 7 now. I'm not |
| 2:13.3 | expecting Love will fall there, but they may trade up. Would you, I mean, obviously be excited if Jeremiah Love is on your team. |
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