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The Ringer NFL Show

The Perfect Mock Draft, Part 2: Picks 17 to 32

The Ringer NFL Show

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4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sheil and The Ringer’s own Steven Ruiz, Diante Lee, and Austin Gayle complete their group mock, discussing the moves they think each team will make (including trades) during the first round of the 2026 NFL draft. (00:00) The perfect mock draft, Part 2: Picks 17 to 32 (00:46) No. 17 Detroit Lions (03:59) No. 18 Minnesota Vikings (07:49) No. 19 Carolina Panthers (11:34) No. 20 Philadelphia Eagles (14:43) No. 21 Pittsburgh Steelers (19:32) No. 22 Los Angeles Chargers (23:38) No. 23 Dallas Cowboys (25:40) No. 24 Cleveland Browns (27:46) No. 25 Chicago Bears (30:17) No. 26 Buffalo Bills (32:20) No. 27 San Francisco 49ers (34:24) No. 28 Houston Texans (37:37) No. 29 Kansas City Chiefs (40:55) No. 30 New York Giants (41:41) No. 31 New England Patriots (43:01) No. 32 Seattle Seahawks The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available.Host: Sheil KapadiaGuests: Diante Lee, Steven Ruiz, and Austin GayleProducer: Chris SuttonVideo Editor: Stefano SanchezProduction Supervision: Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:18.0

Price and participation may vary.

0:28.6

Welcome to the Ringer NFL show. I'm your host, Sheila Kapade.

0:30.6

We got the second part of our mock draft today.

0:32.6

Hopefully you watch or listen to the first part, picks 1 through 16.

0:36.6

Now we've got picks 17 to 32.

0:39.9

What we think will happen, not what we think should happen.

0:43.4

We've got my friends here, Austin Gail, Deontay Lee, and Stephen Ruiz from the Ringer.

0:48.3

Let's take a break.

0:49.4

We will come back with the second part of our mock draft.

1:06.3

Music come back with the second part of our mock draft. All right, they're stealing the phone out of Howie Roseman's hands, Ruiz.

1:09.8

So it looks like you've got to make the pick with the Lions at 17. Yeah, I want to go edge rusher here with the Lions, but I'm just going to go best offensive linemen available. And for me, that's Monroe Freeland. I feel like that, I feel like we all predicted it was going to be a hole for the Lions last year, just with how the offseason

1:28.2

worked out. Ragnow, retires, comes back, doesn't play, all that. And it just seemed like that

1:34.4

offense lost its superpower. And I think you need to rebuild that before you can even address

1:38.1

the needs on the defensive end. Because I think if you do go defense here and you're reaching

1:43.2

a little bit on some of these picks, just to fill a hole, I think you just lose sight of what you guys were. And I think for the lines to be the lions, they need a great offensive line for that offense to work how Dan Campbell wants it to work. So I'm just going to go offensive linemen here. I like it. I like the pick. You lose Taylor Decker, and now you have a guy who can maybe come in and has a high ceiling there.

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