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The McShay Show

Our Favorite Picks From Every Round of the 2026 NFL Draft

The McShay Show

The Ringer

Sports, Football

4.7661 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The McShay Show! It’s a simple concept today: Todd and Steve share their favorite picks from every round of the 2026 NFL draft. To read scouting reports on each of the prospects, visit TheRinger.com/McShay. And for early access to the guys’ evaluations on the 2027 QB class, subscribe to The McShay Report. 0:00 Welcome to The McShay Show!0:45 Favorite picks for every round of the 2026 draft1:55 Round 1: Favorite Picks10:20 Round 2: Favorite Picks15:15 Round 3: Favorite Picks20:25 Round 4: Favorite Picks25:05 Round 5: Favorite Picks30:35 Round 6: Favorite Picks36:00 Round 7: Favorite Picks The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines. When you need your fit to deliver, we’ve got you. Shop Men's Wearhouse. Host: Todd McShayGuest: Steve MuenchProducers: Tucker Tashjian, Conor Nevins, and Daniel ComerSocial: Abou Kamara Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Seven rounds, 257 picks.

0:10.1

Mention I go round by round to give you our favorite 14 selections of the 2026 NFL draft.

0:17.2

There's just 357 days until the NFL draft.

0:22.7

Ment, you good?

0:24.1

I'm good, man.

0:25.3

Play our favorite beat, tuck. You know, when we're going through this thing, Munch, live, it's interesting, like, a pick comes in, there's a selection.

0:51.5

All right, let's talk about the player.

0:53.0

Let's look at the roster from the team that drafted that player. Let's give some analysis. And then the next pick is in, right?

1:01.4

It's a, it's a format in which it's hard to, like, really stop down and really evaluate, like,

1:08.6

what went into the pick? Was there a trade up, a trade down?

1:11.3

What was a compensation?

1:12.7

Who was still on the board?

1:14.3

Where do we have a...

1:15.0

So there's just a lot of things where now you get 10 plus days post draft to sit down

1:20.6

and really study the thing, right?

1:23.1

Every year when we do this, I get like a different opinion of the draft and which teams nailed it and which teams maybe gave up a lot to go get the guys that they wanted.

1:35.1

And this year's no different.

1:36.8

So I find this fascinating.

1:38.7

I hope all of our audience does as well.

1:41.0

A reminder on the ringer.com slash McShay.

1:43.4

You can go as we go through all these picks and get a full scouting report on all these players. You go team by team, round by round, however you want to do it and follow along. Let's start with you. This is the format. It's nice and easy today. There's seven rounds. As I said, 257 picks. We're going to pick our favorite 14, and we're going to do so going round by round.

2:04.4

So if I were to say to you, Steve, as you've had this time now to go to Vegas and watch fish and come back,

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