What We Got Wrong About the 2026 NFL Draft

The McShay Show

The Ringer

Sports, Football

4.7 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to The McShay Show! Today, the guys are self-scouting their prospect evaluations and pre-draft predictions, beginning with a behind-the-scenes look at what happened with Todd's Jets intel on Arvell Reese and David Bailey. 0:00 Welcome to The McShay Show!0:45 What we got wrong about the 2026 draft12:45 The Ty Simpson market18:20 Derrick Moore vs. Zion Young23:35 Too low on Malachi Lawrence27:05 Drew Allar's potential development34:10 Jadarian Price as a first rounder38:20 Prospects that fell to the fourth round44:10 Chase Bisontis rising to the second round46:05 Coming up on The McShay Show The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines. Host: Todd McShayGuest: Steve MuenchProducers: Tucker Tashjian, Conor Nevins, and Daniel ComerSocial: Abou Kamara Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It comes as no surprise that this is the most viewed show that we do outside of draft week.
0:12.5	What we got wrong in the 2026 NFL draft.
0:17.3	Self-scouting's, it's helpful, but it's painful sometimes.
0:20.6	Only 353 days until the 2027 NFL draft.
0:24.6	Good, Mitch?
0:26.6	I'm doing way better, man.
0:28.6	Roll that thing, tuck. Today's show is about picking ourselves apart, you know? It's not fun, but the audience loves it.
0:57.0	I mean, honestly, it's one of the least surprising things when we went down and did an audit of last year's shows.
1:02.0	What were the most viewed shows?
1:04.0	What was absorbed the most by our audience?
1:10.0	And this was very near the top of all the shows
1:13.4	that weren't like, you know, the 10 days leading up to the draft.
1:17.0	And today's...
1:17.6	We need to squeeze one of these in.
1:20.5	We got to figure out how to do this after the rookie season, though.
1:23.7	It feels a little early for this.
1:26.1	I think it's good.
1:27.0	I think it's good. We could check
1:28.1	ourselves now. But let's check back in, you know, January and say this is really where we were off.
1:35.0	Some follow the noise. Bloomberg follows the money because behind every headline is a bottom line.
1:43.4	Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,
1:48.0	there's a money side to every story.
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