Chasing the Natty: A College Fantasy Football Podcast · Jared Palmgren and Nate Marchese

Round-By-Round Breakdown of the 2026 Way-Too-Early CFF Mock Draft - Episode 267 - Chasing the Natty: A CFF Show

·1 hr 46 min·5 clips

Chris Battistel opens the show without Jared, who is off counting penguins in the Antarctic, and frames the episode as a round-by-round breakdown of the annual way too early expert mock draft with Campus Decant and Zone Chris Moxley. The board is the whole point. The conversation keeps coming back to who was overdrafted, who was underdrafted, and which players were not drafted at all, which gives the episode a useful fantasy angle right away. The hosts do not stay at the headline level for long. They move into actual roster decisions and keep translating each pick into what it means for college fantasy football players. Arch Manning draws the strongest early quarterback praise. Chris Battistel says Arch got a pretty bad rep from his first few games and thinks he looked much better both as a quarterback and as a fantasy producer. Devin Dampier sits in the same upper-tier conversation. The tougher read is Utah. Battistel points to Dampier's dropped efficiency after moving into a much better conference and says the floor gets scary if the game script does not break right. He still treats him as a top five quarterback. He just does not sound eager to build around him in the same way. The running backs start coming off the board quickly. The show keeps warning that if you did not take one in the top two rounds, you are already scrambling. That scarcity shapes the rest of the discussion. Even names like Jamari McClure get weighed through that pressure. The quarterback tier also gets a little weird as Brad Jackson goes in the second round and Arch Manning lands as QB2 while Devin Dampier lands as QB3. The hosts pause on whether those quarterbacks are interchangeable or whether the market is treating the gap as smaller than it is this early. More quarterbacks seem to be coming, but the board keeps forcing running back choices first. The episode stays practical through the end. It is less about declaring winners and more about showing where the CFF market is already tightening.

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A round-by-round mock-draft read that offers useful CFF signal.

Chasing the Natty leans into the annual too-early expert mock draft, with Campus Decant and Zone Chris Moxley sorting out who went too high, who slipped, and who somehow missed the board entirely.

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