SLICES: The 2026 NFL Draft Recap!

Scott Sigler Slices

Empty Set Entertainment

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The 2026 NFL Draft has come and gone. We discussed Chaos Night and the Draft itself in the last episode. Today, we recap a few highlights for us. Draft Night is a culmination of a lifetime’s worth of work, and the start of the rest of it. Congrats to the 2026 NFL Rookie Class! — Slices is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs — Produced by Steve Riekeberg — Production Assistance by Allie Press — Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment A New Career Deserves a New Domain Name The NFL Draft is all about finding the best players for the best terms. Just like when you choose a new domain registration and use our GoDaddy Promo Code? You’re getting the best product at the best price. For all your dot-com needs, use GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG to get up to 99% off. Doesn’t matter if you’re picking first or 251st, your best deals are here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Scott Sigler Slices. I am Scott Sigler, a sci-fi horror and sports fiction author of the Galactic Football League series where sci-fi meets American football 700 years in the future.
0:10.3	And I am A.B. Sigler, audiobook narrator and publisher at Empty Set Entertainment, where we make cool stuff for cool people.
0:17.2	In this episode, we just posted an episode on how the draft works in this feed and another
0:21.8	one on Chaos Night, which is the first night of the NFL draft. So now we're going to talk about
0:26.1	four very interesting stories from the 2026 NFL draft. Now that it's over, this is some cool
0:32.3	stuff. Absolutely. And, you know, there is absolutely millions of people covering the top 10 draft picks, all that sort of stuff. There were some surprises. There were some not surprises. So we're going to talk just a tiny bit about that. But you guys can Google that stuff. These were just four things that we thought were kind of interesting to point out.
0:50.2	First one is something that everyone on Earth knows. If you don't know it yet, let me be the only person you've heard from in a week.
0:59.0	Fernando Mendoza, who played a quarterback at Indiana University.
1:03.8	He went first in the draft as expected, and he went to the Las Vegas Raiders as expected.
1:10.6	Yeah, everybody saw this coming. He is a phenomenal talent, led Indiana to a 15-0 record.
1:15.6	First time they've gone undefeated, and first time they've won a national championship.
1:19.6	They've had a Division I program for a long time, but they played way above their weight class, so to speak, and this guy was a big part of it.
1:26.9	So now, as a rookie, the first person taking the draft,
1:31.2	he gets $54 million for the next four years,
1:34.4	13.6 million a year, guaranteed $36 million signing bonus.
1:39.0	And if he never plays an actual snap in a game,
1:42.0	he still gets that money.
1:43.3	So interesting, I have a question there.
1:44.9	So as a rookie starting quarterback who also went first in the draft, so are you saying
1:51.5	whoever went first in the draft, if they were a rookie QB, they would be making $54 million,
1:58.3	or is that something that the Raiders did?
2:00.6	No, the first five slots in the NFL draft are fixed by the league's rookie wage scale.
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