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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

Player Comps for the Best RBs in the Draft, the Jalen Hurts ESPN Story, the Annual NFL Coaches Photo, and ABS vs. Waymo

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

The guys break down the running backs in the 2026 NFL draft, from a thin top tier to the handful of sleepers who might actually matter. They debate whether this class is being undersold, highlight the few names worth caring about, and lean into the weird uncertainty that defines draft season. (00:00) Intro (02:01) Jalen Hurts (15:45) Jermod McCoy (17:45) 50 Shades of Player Comps: Running back edition (01:01:06) The coaches photo (01:08:13) Kyle Shanahan (01:18:22) Is baseball better with ABS? (01:30:40) Emails Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau Check out The Ringer’s 2026 NFL Draft Guide: https://theringer.com/nfl-draft/2026/big-board#content Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Austin Gayle, Abou Kamara, Carlos Chiriboga, and Cameron Dinwiddie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the NFL Draft Show. Oh my God, it's the Ringer NFL Draft show. I almost forgot Ringer. That specific mistake has never happened. Well, let's just keep it. Ringer NFL draft show, Ringer Fantasy Football Show, whatever's going on here. My name is Danny Hyford. Today I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlebeck. And we're going to go over the running backs in the 2026 NFL draft, or most of them because a lot of them aren't that good. So we're going to go over the running backs in the 2026 NFL draft or most of them because a lot of them aren't that good. So we're going to go over the like half dozen that we like, right, D.K.? That's right. It's kind of a down year for running back. There's two main guys and they played for the same team. All right. Well, there's our show. We'll get into that. But we'll get into the other guys. I think there are a handful of players that could be sleepers here in this draft,

1:13.6

late third, maybe early fourth rounders that end up being contributors on their team. So there are a few guys I'm excited about, I will say that. Craig, do you have a better pitch for people to listen to this episode that we have some guys who could be contributors on their team? we're not going to lie to people here, all right? Maybe we should. We're not in the business of lying. No, we are. This will be the most important podcast you've ever listened to. We're going to go through that. We're going to have to talk about a little baseball and all the umpiring and the disappearance of players' height and a bunch of things. Kyle Shanhan's pissed about playing in Australia versus the Rams.

1:28.6

Sean McVeigh's pissed about the two-point conversion. He can't get over from the Shaq Sharbonne. A lot of stuff. Move on, man. And a lot of people emailed in about the Jets, D.K's vibes ranking with the Jets. I cannot wait to read you some of the emails. Jets fans sent about D.K. I already admitted I was wrong, all right?

1:44.4

You have to rub it in?

1:45.3

You should have doubled down.

1:47.6

Yes, you should. cannot wait to read you some of the emails. Jess Finns sent about Dick and his rankings. I already admitted I was wrong, all right?

1:44.4

You have to rub it in?

1:45.3

We're going to double down.

1:58.9

Yes, you should have. That's what you would have done, Craig. We're going to go through these running backs and we're going to try to preview the running backs here with the draft. And again, we continue to cover the league after the season ends. We're still doing fantasy. if you like us a draft coverage,

2:00.6

stick with us for the season and everything too.

2:01.3

But first,

2:03.2

I want to go through this Jalen Hertz story that ESPN had. We're still doing fantasy. If you like us a draft coverage, stick with us for the season and everything too.

2:00.9

But first, I want to go through this Jalen Hertz story

2:03.6

that ESPN had today, Tim McManus at ESPN wrote this large story

2:07.5

about Jalen Hertz that was, I don't know,

2:12.6

just a great page six gossip session of just the Eagles back, just all this backstabbing.

2:20.0

I don't even know what to make of it. Craig, what was your favorite line in this story?

2:23.7

There was like a bunch of things, but it was fun.

2:26.7

Oh, what was my favorite line?

2:28.8

I don't know.

2:29.2

There's just a lot of anonymous quotes about, I did, I enjoyed McManus having to hedge a little bit where it was kind of like,

2:36.6

it's very clear that Jalen Hertz's personality annoys a lot of people and his stoicism, you know,

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