NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah Breaks Down the Top 10 of His NFL Mock Draft 4.0

NFL Network's Daniel Jeremiah brought his fourth and final mock draft to The Rich Eisen Show and walked Rich through every pick in the top ten, building each selection out of conversations with front offices, coaching staffs, and college sources rather than the standard chalk projections.

Jeremiah opened with Fernando Mendoza to the Raiders at one, then the New York Jets taking edge David Bailey over Abdul Reese at two, before engineering a trade at three that sent the Saints up to grab Reese while the Cardinals dropped back. "If they trade back, the Saints are the team that makes sense," Jeremiah said, citing New Orleans' track record of aggressive moves under Mickey Loomis and Brandon Staley's defensive fit for Reese.

The Bailey-over-Reese order is where Jeremiah leaned hardest into his reporting. "With David Bailey, I've seen him line up, put his hand on the ground, and I've seen him get after the quarterback in a variety of ways," Jeremiah said. He framed the lingering hesitation on Bailey as an outdated bias against players who transferred from a school like Stanford to Texas Tech. "Your whole life you've been taught that one is not the other. And that era is over. It's over."

From there Jeremiah had Jeremiah Love to Arizona, Caleb Styles to Tennessee at four, and the New York Giants on the clock at five. He told Rich that internal Giants mocks almost never had Bailey falling that far, but if Reese sat there it would be the easier justification given the Carter and Burns presence on the edge. Bailey at five, Jeremiah said, would more likely trigger a trade with the Saints, Chiefs, or even an unlikely interdivisional call from the Cowboys.

For Cleveland at six, Jeremiah floated a trade-back, with Kelvin Banks and Josh Conerly Jr. as the Browns' tackle targets. He explained Tennessee's interest in tackle Conerly through head coach exposure to Georgia and Baltimore offensive line philosophy. "This is that type of mauler, brawler," Jeremiah said.

On receivers, Jeremiah had Jordan Tyson going before Carnell Tate. "I have Tate as the top receiver, but more and more teams have had Tyson there," he said, calling Tate "steady Eddie" while suggesting evaluators are punishing him for playing next to a teammate who may have been better.

At nine, Jeremiah had the Kansas City Chiefs choosing between Mike Bane and corner Will Delane and went with Delane, noting the loss of Trent McDuffie's coverage in nickel and projecting Delane as a run-down dominator who can reduce inside as a rusher.