Now that you've slept on it...NFL Draft takeaways
4/29/20261 hr 3 min
One hundred picks were made across the first two nights of the draft, with each one coming right on the heels of the one that happened before it. When you're reacting to those pick-by-pick, you don't have a ton of time to fully sit with your thoughts. By time you get into the middle of the following week, though, you have had that time to reconsider some of what you thought as the draft was unfolding. And that's exactly what Robert Mays and Fran Duffy from the ALLCITY Network do on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The...
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Welcome to The Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. One more look back at the 2026 NFL Draft today with our guy, Fran Duffy from the All City Network, a very good friend of the show. Talking to Fran about how we wanted to approach this, the idea that we landed on was, now that we've slept on it, dot, dot, dot, here is a thought that we have about the draft. We do this stuff in real time, I mean, especially the first two nights where we're just reacting to the picks one by one by one by one. You wake up on Saturday morning, and the draft starts at 11:00 a.m. [chuckles] You've got hundreds more picks that are coming down the pike. It's hard to really sit with a lot of this stuff because you're reacting to it all as the bullets are flying. And so what we wanted to do today is, now that we've had a couple days to remove ourselves from the news cycle, the constant wave of stuff that's hitting us, what are some thoughts that may have shifted about this draft and how we feel about it? So that's what we did today. 10, a dozen thoughts now that we've had a little bit of time, space, and room to think about it. Now that we've slept on it, these are the thoughts that me and Fran Duffy have about the 2026 NFL Draft. Let's get to it right now. [upbeat music] All right. We're spending one more show on this feed over the course of this week, I was gonna say digging through the wreckage of the 2026 NFL Draft. That's a pretty terrible connotation. Just kinda