Our FAVORITE 2026 NFL Draft Fits: Pairing 10 Prospects To NFL Teams
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode Mike Renner and JP Acosta give their favorite potential fits in the 2026 NFL Draft.
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(00:00) Intro
(1:02) WR KC Concepcion
(5:10) WR Brenen Thompson
(8:08) WR Omar Cooper Jr
(10:37) LB Anthony Hill Jr
(13:46) CB Chris Johnson
(16:13) CB Avieon Terrell
(19:12) DT Domonique Orange
(21:28) C Sam Hecht
(24:08) WR De’Zhaun Stribling
(27:46) TE Eli Stowers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into this Monday morning edition of pushing the pile. |
| 0:18.1 | Mike Ryder, J.P. Acosta, come to you as always. |
| 0:20.5 | We are, gosh, a week and a half |
| 0:22.3 | away here, 10 days away from night one of the NFL draft, but we're going to go a little |
| 0:27.8 | deeper than night one. I feel like we haven't gone too deep into the weeds on later prospects |
| 0:34.1 | just yet in this draft. But I wanted to give some of our favorite fits. |
| 0:38.7 | Some of these are round one, but a lot of these are post round one fits in this |
| 0:43.9 | draft class, player to team that we need to see happen. |
| 0:48.1 | I tried to not do some of the ones that I've said already. |
| 0:50.8 | Like I've said, DeAngelo Ponzi to the Jets is just, I think it's going to happen. Like, it has to happen. It was like last year, Darien Porter, the Iowa State Corner, he was just going to be a Pete Carroll pick. Like he was going to be a Raider. That was one we're just like before the draft. You just know some fits like that. That to me is DeAngelo Pons to Aaron Glenn this year. |
| 1:11.9 | So I didn't do that one, but we have a bunch of others. We did five apiece. We'll start with you, JP. We did some first rounders. Yours is the first rounder, but we'll start with it because I love this one so much. It was in my latest three-round mock draft actually as well. So one of my favorite prospect to team fits is Casey Concepcion, Texas A&M Y receiver to the Carolina Panthers. |
| 1:32.0 | And the reason I said this is because the Panthers have sort of, they spent a lot of money on their |
| 1:37.5 | defense in free agency. |
| 1:38.8 | I don't want to say they fix their issues because you can never like truly solve those |
| 1:43.3 | problems up front. |
| 1:44.4 | But spending a lot of money at linebacker and Edge makes me think that they're not going to go |
| 1:49.5 | defensive line or linebacker in the first round of the NFL draft. |
| 1:54.0 | But what they need on offense is speed. |
| 1:56.5 | When you look at this offense from last season, although it was very fun towards the end, |
| 2:01.2 | they were just kind of slow. Teddirole McMillan is sort of a four or five, sort of glider. |
| 2:06.1 | Jalen Coker is more of a power forward playing a wide receiver for them. And the speed that |
| 2:11.3 | they can trust is Jimmy Horn, who is maybe like 170 pounds soaking wet. Casey Concepcion gives him some easy separation, some easy verticality, and he helps in |
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