Ranking the Top 2026 NFL Draft Prospects Part 1: Wide Receiver: Wide Receivers (Episode 969 with Mike Renner, Evan Silva, Adam Levitan)
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva welcome back CBS Sports' Mike Renner to Tier List the top wide receivers in this year's NFL Draft, with Mike assigning a tier to each receiver based on he rates them and where he would draft them in the 2026 NFL Draft.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:00 - Introduction
1:57 - Carnell Tate
7:29 - Makai Lemon
10:40 - Jordan Tyson
15:05 - Omar Cooper Jr.
18:45 - Denzel Boston
21:19 - KC Concepcion
25:17 - Chris Bell
28:08 - Germie Bernard
29:55 - Chris Brazzell II
33:58 - Antonio Williams
37:19 - Zachariah Branch
40:57 - Brenen Thompson
43:05 - Malachi Fields
45:42 - Cyrus Allen
47:38 - Taylen Green
49:41 - Ted Hurst
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 9669 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:21.4 | My name is Adam Levittan, and it is April, which means the NFL draft is nearly upon us |
| 0:29.5 | to dive into all the most important prospects for this year's draft. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm joined by two young men you know and love. |
| 0:36.1 | Evan Silva, how's it going today? |
| 0:38.2 | It's going great. |
| 0:39.1 | I think this is one of our most actionable, useful, valuable shows that we do at this point in the off season with Mike Renner, who's been an absolute assassin for us over the past couple years, giving us an edge on our opponents. I'll be taking notes for a lot of this show. All right. And yes, as Evan alluded to also joining us, old friend of the show, one of the oldest friends of the show. It is Mike Renner of CBS Sports. Mike, thanks for coming back. How's it going today? Going great. Thanks for having me, fellas. Very excited to be back. I was telling you pre-show. I don't get to do much draft nowadays when I'm at CBS. And so this is like first time I really get to roll through top to bottom my rankings here. So I'm pumped to bottom. Yes. Get it all off your chest. Mike took a lot of heat last year for things like Caleb Johnson ranked 12th among |
| 1:28.3 | running backs in his rankings, which turned out to be seemingly correct. But anyways, over the next |
| 1:34.5 | three shows, we are going to dissect every notable skill position prospect in the 2026 NFL draft. |
| 1:42.8 | Mike will put each prospect into tiers, |
| 1:45.5 | ranging from the S tier, the best, the elite, |
| 1:49.5 | down to the F tier, |
| 1:51.3 | the worst day three prospect types at best. |
| 1:55.3 | So without further ado, let's get into it here |
| 1:58.5 | at the wide receiver position. |
| 2:00.5 | We're going to go into somewhat randomized order here as Mike puts these guys into tiers. |
| 2:05.3 | We're going to start, Mike, with Carnell Tate, 6-2-192 out of Ohio State. |
| 2:13.1 | Go ahead. |
| 2:13.9 | Renner, what tier would you have Carnell Tate in? |
| 2:16.7 | Carnell Tate is an A-tier. I think it's a pretty strong A tier of wide receivers this year. I don't just, spoilerly, don't have an S tier wide receiver this year. I don't think there's a true top 10 guy in this class. But I think there's a lot of first round guys in this class. He's one of them. I love his, you know, like any Ohio |
| 2:34.6 | statewide receiver, I love the attention to detail. I love the route running ability. Those |
| 2:38.3 | Brian Hartline coach guys, you can just set your watch to them, the way they get in and out of their |
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