The 2026 NFL Draft dust has settled, but we still have questions
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
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OK, the 2026 NFL Draft is comfortably in the rear-view mirror. We've done in-the-moment reactions, and now-that-we've-slept-on-it reactions. It's done, it's over. So now it's time to ask ourselves, 'If this is what the 32 teams are, what questions do we still have about all of them?' Robert Mays and Dave Helman pose those questions, and then work through them, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. The draft is over. We're a few days |
| 0:05.4 | removed from the end of the draft. And we spend so much time before the draft happens, |
| 0:12.1 | thinking about team needs, where teams are going to go in order to fill those needs. And now |
| 0:16.9 | that the draft is done, and we've seen all of these hundreds of picks slotted onto these rosters, there are still a bunch of big questions remaining. |
| 0:24.8 | The Ravens didn't draft the center. |
| 0:27.0 | We all assume they would do something to replace Tyler Windybaum. |
| 0:29.5 | That's just one example. |
| 0:30.9 | There are a bunch of those. |
| 0:32.1 | And so me and Dave today are going to sort through the 10 or so biggest questions we still have left about these |
| 0:38.7 | rosters now that the draft is over. |
| 0:42.0 | A lot of good ones that we dug into today. |
| 0:44.1 | Enjoyed this conversation. |
| 0:45.3 | Hope you guys do as well. |
| 0:46.5 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:15.4 | Now. Now that most of the dust has settled from draft weekend, we're still left with a bunch of rosters that have questions, and we're still left with a bunch of veteran free agents that now the draft has ended can potentially find homes because teams aren't digging in the compensatory pick formula, |
| 1:16.5 | all that good stuff. |
| 1:18.1 | So that's what we're going to do today. |
| 1:24.2 | We are going to run through our biggest questions that we still have now that teams have now that teams have gone through the 2026 NFL draft. |
| 1:27.1 | I could have come up with a hundred of these. |
| 1:28.7 | I'm going to try to limit my list, but there are still plenty of lingering thoughts I have |
| 1:34.4 | about where some roster issues need to be addressed with these teams, Dave. |
| 1:39.5 | Yeah, I found myself trying to avoid overlap from conversations we've already had or things that got brought |
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