THE HERD - Hour 1 - There is a tanking epidemic in the NBA, new NFL Mock Draft
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd looks at the tanking epidemic in the NBA and explains why this is an issue the league created for itself that could have been avoided.
He shares his NFL Mock Draft 2.0 using intel from around the NFL to tell you the first 15 picks of the first round.
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| 0:30.5 | It is a Thursday NFL draft officially, as of this this moment two weeks away. |
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| 0:48.4 | So in 40 minutes, I'm going to do it at the end of this hour. |
| 0:53.6 | I will give you my mock draft based on text, sourcing, what I'm hearing needs. |
| 1:02.4 | I'll give you the top 15 in the first round, and I'm going to tell you what I hear, what I think is going to happen. |
| 1:08.7 | Not necessarily what I would do. This is not necessarily what I would do. |
| 1:13.3 | And the most interesting part of the draft is picks two, three, four, and five. There could be a domino effect. |
| 1:20.6 | There will be based on what the Jets do. So I'm going to have that in about 40 minutes. |
| 1:24.9 | But I want to start. There's a great writer that covers the NBA named Anthony Slater. |
| 1:29.0 | It works for the athletic. |
| 1:30.3 | He used to cover the Warriors. |
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