NFL Mock Draft 2026: We Made Every Pick From 1 to 32 (Episode 974 with Adam Levitan, Evan Silva, Ben Standig, Scott Smith, Mike Renner)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan delivers his best Roger Goodell impression as NFL Commissioner overlooking ETR's yearly NFL Mock Draft, featuring Evan Silva, CBS Sports' Mike Renner, Ben Standig from the Last Man Standig Podcast and Substack and 4for4's Scott Smith.
Evan, Mike, Ben and Scott take turns in making the selections for all 32 first-round picks, providing insight into why along the way.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:54 - #1 Las Vegas Raiders
4:12 - #2 New York Jets
6:58 - #3 Arizona Cardinals
6:00 - #4 Tennessee Titans
6:39 - #5 New York Giants
26:01 - #6 Cleveland Browns
9:01 - #7 Washington Commanders
11:33 - #8 New Orleans Saints
12:59 - #9 Kansas City Chiefs
13:56 - #10 New York Giants (from Bengals)
15:12 - #11 Miami Dolphins
16:28 - #12 Dallas Cowboys
17:01 - #13 Los Angeles Rams (from Falcons
17:55 - #14 Baltimore Ravens
18:54 -#15 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
20:28 - #16 New York Jets (from Colts)
21:19 - #17 Detroit Lions
22:35 - #18 Minnesota Viking
23:44 - #19 Carolina Panthers
25:04 - #20 Dallas Cowboys (from Packers)
26:01 - #21 Pittsburgh Steelers
27:11 - #22 Los Angeles Chargers
28:45 - #23 Philadelphia Eagles
31:13 - #24 Cleveland Browns (from Jaguars)
31:49 - #25 Chicago Bears
32:22 - #26 Buffalo Bills
33:36 - #27 San Francisco 49ers
34:18 - #28 Houston Texans
34:47 - #29 Kansas City Chiefs (from Rams)
35:37 - #30 Miami Dolphins (from Broncos)
36:18 - #31 New England Patriots
37:17 - #32 Seattle Seahawks
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 975 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | My name is Adam Levittan, and the NFL draft will commence this Thursday, |
| 0:27.7 | which means it is time for one of my favorite annual shows. |
| 0:31.4 | It is the official 26 ETR mock draft for this. |
| 0:38.4 | I am joined by our elite group of mockers. |
| 0:41.7 | These are year in and year out. |
| 0:43.7 | Four of the best out there. |
| 0:45.0 | Our own Evan Silva, of course. |
| 0:46.7 | Evan, how's going today? |
| 0:48.3 | It's going great. |
| 0:49.2 | Good to be here with some NFL mock draft savants. |
| 0:52.8 | Indeed, Evan, former champion of the mock draft streets, which I don't know people |
| 0:58.5 | like to admit, but he was. Scott Smith from 4-4-for-4. How's it going, buddy? |
| 1:04.7 | Good, man, excited and honored to be back for another year and chop it up and talk a little |
| 1:09.4 | NFL draft with guys much smarter than me. |
| 1:12.0 | I don't know about that, Scott. I saw in the ranking. Scott's up to fifth in the last five years |
| 1:16.4 | in the average in the mock draft rankings out of a lot of drafters. Ben Standing, another former |
| 1:22.4 | champion of the mock draft streets from the last man standing substack and podcast long long time ace commander's |
| 1:30.9 | reporter ben how's going today it's going great this is literally one of my favorite |
| 1:37.6 | podcast appearances i get to do so appreciate you keep doing this appreciate you being here and |
| 1:43.8 | old friend mike renner from c Sports. If anyone is watching this on YouTube, it looks like Rudy Rudiger threw up in Mike's background. Mike, how's it going today? Going great. I don't know how much help I'll be. I don't know how much help anyone will be. I think this is the hardest year to mock I think I've ever done. This draft is crazy. Yes, it is. And, you know, I think one of the crazy parts about it, |
| 2:05.1 | is you know it's so weak because we're getting so many poor positional value stuff here in the top |
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