Way Too Early 2026 NFL Mock Draft | Cover 3 x With The First Pick Crossover
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Chip Patterson and Tom Fornelli are joined by Ryan Wilson and Former NFL GM Ran Carthon for a Cover 3 and With The First Pick Podcast crossover.
(00:00) Intro
(7:22) Will Arch Manning Declare?
(8:30) 1. New Orleans Saints
(10:43) 2. New York Giants
(11:59) 3. Cleveland Browns
(14:06) 4. New York Jets
(15:21) 5. Tennessee Titans
(18:14) 6. Las Vegas Raiders
(19:34) 7. Carolina Panthers
(21:04) 8. Cleveland Browns (via Jaguars)
(23:13) 9. Indianapolis Colts
(24:59) 10. Seattle Seahawks
(28:32) 11. New England Patriots
(29:57) 12. Los Angeles Rams (via Falcons)
(32:04) 13. Miami Dolphins
(32:47) 14. Dallas Cowboys
(34:23) 15. Arizona Cardinals
(35:47) 16. Pittsburgh Steelers
(37:42) 17. Chicago Bears
(38:36) 18. Denver Broncos
(39:58) 19. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
(42:37) 20. Houston Texans
(43:56) 21. Minnesota Vikings
(45:22) 22. Los Angeles Chargers
(46:16) 23. San Francisco 49ers
(47:38) 24. Green Bay Packers
(48:30) 25. Cincinnati Bengals
(49:22) 26. Washington Commanders
(49:54) 27. Los Angeles Rams
(51:04) 28. Detroit Lions
(52:37) 29. Kansas City Chiefs
(53:45) 30. Buffalo Bills
(55:02) 31. Baltimore Ravens
(55:39) 32. Philadelphia Eagles
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| 0:33.2 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott. |
| 0:41.6 | It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:50.5 | CBS Sports presents the cover three podcast. |
| 0:54.8 | Today, I'm with the first pick. |
| 0:56.3 | It's never too early for a 2026 NFL mock draft. |
| 0:59.8 | I say that with the understanding that we are 357 days away from the 26 NFL draft. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm Ryan Wilson. |
| 1:05.3 | That's former Titans GM Rand Carthon. |
| 1:07.8 | This episode 204 am here to help us are the guys from the cover three podcast, |
| 1:12.6 | North Carolina's own ship Patterson and Tom Furnella, who's not exactly happy about how these |
| 1:17.6 | teams played out today. Hey guys, how you doing? I'm great. It's good to be back after being so |
| 1:23.7 | triumphant last year as a show. Ryan, clearly we take a lot of the credit for those, |
| 1:29.0 | all of those correct picks that we had. |
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