Which Fringe Prospects Will SNEAK Into the First Round?
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
There's something soothing about finishing a mock draft...even a mock draft done by six different people. With just picks 26 through 32 remaining, EJ Snyder and Brett Kollmann join Robert Mays to discuss who might sneak into the first round. Who will the defending champ Seattle Seahawks add to their war chest? Who goes to the powerhouse Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers, Houston Texans, Kansas City Chiefs, New England Patriots, and...Miami Dolphins? The guys wrap our On the Clock series on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Guests: EJ Snyder & Brett Kollmann
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Senior Producer: Katy Duffy
Social Producer: Scott Krinch
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:01.6 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:02.8 | We're finishing off our on the clock series today. |
| 0:06.0 | We've done five shows. |
| 0:07.4 | The first round split into five parts, six picks, six picks, seven picks, seven picks, whatever |
| 0:11.9 | it happens to be. |
| 0:12.9 | We've had a guest on for each of those five shows and the exercise has gone like this. |
| 0:16.8 | I give them three options with each team and they make the pick based on what they would do if they were on the clock in that scenario. |
| 0:25.0 | I've really enjoyed this. It's been fun getting everybody's perspective. |
| 0:28.1 | We have picks 26 through 32 today. |
| 0:31.4 | The Buffalo Bills through the Seattle Seahawks finishing off the first round of the draft. |
| 0:36.2 | Here to help me work through those picks it is e j |
| 0:39.6 | Snyder and breck holman from the bootleg football podcast two guys i have known for a very long time |
| 0:44.6 | two guys i'm very excited to have on this show really enjoyed this conversation it was a fun one |
| 0:49.8 | these guys are just real dracicos they are obsessed with this stuff. I think they really liked digging into it. |
| 0:55.7 | I really loved their insights on pretty much every single way that these teams could go, |
| 1:00.5 | the different positions they might be weighing, the different considerations between guys |
| 1:03.7 | at those positions. |
| 1:04.5 | So really, really enjoyed this conversation. |
| 1:07.5 | I wanted to mention, before we get into the show today, just a quick reminder, this Thursday on the athletic football show, YouTube channel, 7.30 p.m. Eastern, our live stream for round one of the 2026 NFL draft. |
| 1:21.9 | One of my favorite nights of the entire year. We've now been doing it. This is our sixth one. |
| 1:26.8 | 2021 was the first one we ever did. It was me and |
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