Ranking the 2026 NFL Draft: Quarterbacks, Running Backs and Tight Ends
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Gregg Rosenthal and Ollie Connolly do deep dive on this year's, quarterback, running back and tight end draft class. Gregg and Ollie tell you what they think about NFL Draft prospects like Fernando Mendoza, Ty Simpson, Jeremiyah Love, Jonah Coleman, Kenyon Sadiq and more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:23.8 | It's a tough sport. It's not for everybody. You've got to be a little sick to love this game. And we've got some sickos. Welcome to NFL Daily where we're finally going to talk about Fernando Mendoza. I'm Greg Rosenthal. I'm with Ali Connolly. It's the day where we go over quarterbacks, running backs, tight ends. I had a different intro lined up in my head. |
| 0:38.2 | Ali, but our producer Eric reminds me right before the show. He's like, we haven't talked about Fernando Mendoza a lot. You just skip right past him. Say he's go to the Raiders. You talked about him on 40s and free agents. This isn't 40s and free agents. This is the real deal show. |
| 0:41.7 | This is the SICO show so we can dig into some of Fernando Mendoza. |
| 0:47.1 | We do have all offseason, all preseason, the first six weeks of Kirk Cousins to discuss how Fernando Mendoza fits with the Raiders. |
| 0:50.2 | Yes, I've been waiting and trying to catch up watching all these guys. |
| 0:55.0 | And this was a fun day to try to catch up and look at all the different positions. |
| 1:00.0 | And while we're talking about premier players, we haven't given a ton of juice to on this show. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm actually going to start with Jeremiah Love and running back. |
| 1:08.0 | So we'll go running backs, quarterbacks, tight ends. |
| 1:11.0 | I don't really have like a ranking, but we'll get into some of your tiers if you have |
| 1:15.0 | them at this point. |
| 1:16.9 | And I assume Jeremiah Love is all by himself at the top of those rankings. |
| 1:21.7 | And I guess I'll start here. |
| 1:24.2 | Like when you compare Love historically the Notre Dame running back, 5.9 yards per carry in each of the last two years, really good as a receiver, just big, strong, fast, everything that you could kind of want in a running back. |
| 1:40.0 | How do you compare him historically against some of the good running backs that you've evaluated |
| 1:44.8 | over the years? |
| 1:46.0 | He really is Reggie Bush with a little bit more weight, which I think immediately moves you |
| 1:51.3 | into the comparison of, okay, how close he to Bejohn Robinson and Christian McCaffrey? |
| 1:55.8 | It's kind of a three down everything you could ever hope for in a player type threat. |
| 1:59.8 | Is he more in that Ezekiel Elliott |
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