On the Clock, 2026 NFL Draft picks one through six: Certainty at the very top, and then...
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the 2026 debut of On the Clock, The Athletic Football Show's annual draft exercise. Every week, a draft analyst will join Robert Mays to cover six or seven picks in the 2026 NFL Draft, considering a trio of potential decisions for each of the teams in question. By time we get to the end of it, we'll have built an entire first round mock and had some interesting discussions along the way. Trevor Sikkema of Pro Football Focus joins Robert to make the first six picks on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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Host: Robert Mays
With: Trevor Sikkema
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:05.9 | Very excited to be bringing back our On the Clock series this year. |
| 0:11.0 | We did this last year, broke it up into five different shows. |
| 0:14.2 | I had five different draft analysts on over the course of the month leading up to the draft, |
| 0:18.3 | and I presented them with three different options for every pick in the first round, |
| 0:23.1 | and they got to pick what they would do if they were on the clock. |
| 0:26.7 | So this isn't necessarily what they think these teams will do or what they think these |
| 0:30.6 | teams should do. |
| 0:31.4 | It's if they were on in the seat, if you're Trevor Sycambe, who is our guest today |
| 0:36.3 | from the NFL Stock Exchange and PFF, and you are John SpyTech with the number one overall pick if you're Trevor Sykima, who is our guest today from the NFL stock exchange and |
| 0:38.0 | PFF, and you are John Spitech with the number one overall pick if you're the Raiders, |
| 0:42.3 | who are you picking when you were on the clock in that scenario? So that's going to lead to |
| 0:47.5 | some surprises here and maybe some wrinkles thrown into what a traditional mock draft white |
| 0:52.2 | look like. But the entire point here is to talk about |
| 0:55.8 | what these teams should be looking for |
| 0:57.8 | and the thought process they might be going |
| 0:59.9 | through when it is their time |
| 1:02.1 | to pick in the first round. |
| 1:03.9 | So very excited to have Trevor |
| 1:06.0 | joining us to kick off this series |
| 1:08.1 | yet again this year. Let's get |
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