Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Daniel Jeremiah talks prospects who fit the Bears in NFL Draft (Hour 4)
03 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: What strengths does the 2026 NFL Draft class have?
What's up, everybody? Welcome to Move the Sticks. DJ and Buck with you.
That is Daniel Jeremiah, the number one public enemy of the public library system of Southern California.
My guy, Daniel Jeremiah. I'd be excited if I was Chicago because most times you've You know, your team in the past has had some struggles. You come in here and you're like, well, gosh, we hope we got the right coach. We hope our quarterback's going to pan out or we're looking for a quarterback. So having those pillars taken care of, this is the easy part.
Yeah, I'm always a fan of going best available, which is hilarious. It's always a great discussion because, oh, you take for need or best available. I'm like, well, a lot of teams stack their board based off need so they can justify taking best available. It's like, come on, guys.
Just get out of there. Your time is tense. Get out of there.
Uh-oh.
Somebody got fired, huh? With Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score.
That is Daniel Jeremiah's introduction. He is at Move the Sticks. You know him well on Twitter. He's an NFL network analyst. He provides live coverage alongside NFL Network of the 2026 NFL Draft from Pittsburgh, April 23rd through 25th. He hosts the Move the Sticks podcast, and he is kind enough to join us on our hotline here on Rahimi Harrison Grody on 104.3 The Score.
Daniel, thanks for coming on.
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Chapter 2: Which prospects are potential fits for the Bears?
When you look at where they're picking, I think they have two second-round picks, 57 and 60. I wouldn't hate it if they doubled up and took a couple guys along the defensive line at that point in time.
We're talking to Daniel Jeremiah. He is the host of the Move the Sticks podcast. He's an NFL network analyst joining us here on Rahimi Harrison Grody on 104.3 The Score. And Daniel, I am enjoying, maybe is the right word, trying to figure out where Zion Young is going to go. I feel like... He's all over the board. Some say he's not going to be available by the time the Bears pick a 25.
Others say he might be available later. I think in your latest mock in the 3.0, you don't have him going in the first round. What do you think about his draft stock and where you could see him landing?
He's a real, he's a real firm, strong player. So you watch him, he destroys tight ends in the run game. He's, you know, he plays really big and long and heavy, heavy handed, but he's not the most twitched up like explosive guy. So a lot of times that's a profile that goes off the board in the second round. In this draft, if he were to go in the 20s, I could totally see that as well.
But usually when you're taking one of these guys in the first round, you want a little more twitch, just a little more juice off the edge. He's more of a power player, big, big, heavy bull rusher, just a little bit more herky-jerky in his movement. So I like him. I think he's a good player. When you're almost 6'6", 262 pounds, you're not going to run the ball on the edge against him.
That's a valuable commodity, and he's a real power player. I could see him going in the 20s. For me personally, I like him more in the second round.
Daniel, I'm curious because Ryan Poles has talked about this draft class not being nearly as deep as others. And I want to know your stance on that and how that should affect maybe what the Bears' needs are. They need everything on defense, as I'm sure you know. So where does this draft, I guess, fall off?
Where should we be looking for the starters, not the stars even, in this draft to kind of fall off?
I think this is a really good day two draft. So when you look at the second and third rounds, I think there's really good players to be found in there, those defensive positions, corners, safeties, edge rushers. I would say defensive tackles not as deep. That would be the one exception there. Linebackers, I actually really like the day two group of linebackers.
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Chapter 3: How does Daniel Jeremiah evaluate the Bears' 25th pick?
He's almost 6'4". He's over 200 pounds. He ran low 4'4". He can really go get the ball down the field. So those are two guys, not at those traditional powerhouses, but two really, really good players.
Dan, I want to ask you too. I know you're draft, draft, draft. But I think the Fernando Mendoza situation is interesting. You obviously have him going to the Raiders number one overall. So do most people. But my question is with Kirk Cousins being there, it looks like he is going to be the starter.
Do you think that this might be, with all the stories that have been written about the misdevelopment of first-round quarterbacks and guys in that position, sounds like they're willing to let Mendoza sit on the bench to begin his career. What do you think about that? And do you think this is a change in the way that maybe teams will develop these first-round quarterbacks to avoid them being bust?
Because we've seen two of those in Mitch Trubisky and Justin Fields come through here.
Well, one of the things that underscores for me is the importance of timelines. And when you have a head coach coming in year one and you're able to take the quarterback year one in a rebuild, this provides you that luxury to be able to do that, to be patient, get the veteran out there, take your time.
The challenge is how many times have we seen it, and you guys have seen it, where you have a coach and you decide the last second we're going to hang on to him and then we're going to take the quarterback. And now this coach is trying to fight back
for his job and needs to stay employed, then he's going to want to pull that fire alarm pretty early to get the rookie quarterback out there to save his job. So that to me is, you know, that's the challenge of it. This is the perfect scenario. You got the first year head coach coming in there.
He's got the, you know, one of your owners who happens to be the greatest quarterback of all time who firmly believes this is the right way to go. You've got offensive staff there. You've got Cousins, who not only is a veteran and can play right now, but by all accounts is an unbelievable teammate and is going to be willing to help Fernando out as well. So I like the way they're doing that thing.
And also, the Kirk Cousins contract obviously got us all realizing his career earnings. And you found this yesterday, Marshall, that he's now earned more in the NFL for being a quarterback than Tom Brady had. Daniel, how do you put his career into context when you consider how that man has made money so well? It's a big come up from driving the brown minivan.
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Chapter 4: What are the key positions of depth in the 2026 draft?
She's so pretty. Brody, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Well, not as it pertains to Family Guy and Meg, okay? Yes, Stewie did not like that. So pretty and beautiful and I love her. That's what I feel like. And like, no shade. He's playing the game. I just don't believe that he actually believes that. But can you admit that he played the game very well? He did play the game very well.
I just, I have a hard time, and I don't know this. I do not, this is, I am not coming from a place where I was told something or George told me something. I just have a really hard time believing it. When I heard that in real time, I'm like, no, you don't actually believe that, George McCaskey. And I love George McCaskey. I don't believe him.
Well, that's how I felt after listening to George for 10 years now on a live basis. Yeah. I just was like, this does not give me, you don't give me confidence in what you're saying. Like, so they say to us in broadcasting, and I kind of scoff at this too. I think you guys have picked up on that by now. There's a lot of people who just sell what they're saying. Like they sell it. You have to.
That's not really what.
That's the job.
It's a job. It's not what I do as well. But George did not speak with, I think, the same timber that he normally does on things he's passionate about. And I do wonder, Mark, how much is this colored by the conversation you had at the Arlington Heights rally where you had an official tell you that they didn't think this was happening.
I actually thought that that official may be wish-casting a bit.
Well, yeah, and that official told me, he said, like, he goes, he was like, Mark, there's no way George McCaskey would be able to stomach being the owner that moved the Pride and Joy of Illinois to the state of Indiana. Now, it's been a while since... since then. And look, take it for what it is.
And when I talk to people around the Bears, they're like, oh, no, no, the Indiana thing, it's absolutely real. And maybe it is. But at this point, I mean, with Indiana ready to go, We were talking about it before the show. The property taxes, they're clean, right?
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Chapter 5: Who is Emmanuel McNeil-Warren and why is he a good fit for the Bears?
I wish I could. My face would look different if it did. But yeah, I just, I don't see. You voluntarily sat on vacant land for three years. We have a great crew at Wings and Rings and these really kind women who are here. One of them used to work for the Sox. She was at the 2010 Burley opening day game.
The Burley under the legs in one motion.
She also told us that Mark Burley went out of his way to say hi to everybody who was working concessions at Sox Park that day, which I think is really cool. They're just laughing at us. They're laughing at us talking about the stadium. Because you guys know. You guys know that that's not going to be built anytime soon. They're saying no because they understand.
And they have more experience than I do working with teams because they worked for the Sox. So how about that?
It's a 1-1 game, by the way, down the block at the ballpark. Can I just point something out? I know it's a little bit off topic, but you just said it's a 1-1 game. I just want to let you all know. because updates are important. Grant Taylor did make a start today. He did throw nine pitches. All nine pitches were strikes, and it was a 1-2-3 inning.
Straight gas, homie.
Love it. But he didn't go out for the second. Oh, that was it? Yeah. That was it? That's why I had to tell y'all. It's been eating me up inside. Is that why you're over here? Are you okay, by the way? No, I'm fine. I had the hiccups.
It was the word coursing, and it just got too intense.
I had the hiccups. I had a really bad case of the hiccups. I was not going to be able to provide any audio.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Daniel Jeremiah provide about Peter Woods?
And we have enjoyed our afternoon here. Thanks to our guests, Jake Peavy, Dee Brown, Sierra Santos. Daniel Jeremiah, Ray Diaz for booking everybody, Tyler Buterbaugh with some tremendous opens that our guests loved, by the way. How about that? You impressed Jake Peavy and Daniel Jeremiah. Thanks to our promotions crew. Thanks to C.S. Henderson on the ones and twos.
Thanks to Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, Max Curtis, Cody Westerlund helping us out, too. And hello on an early edition of Transition with Lawrence Holmes and Matt Spiegel. Hi, guys.
Yeah, we never get to be on this side of 2 o'clock. This is great.
Welcome to Midday. Hi, Midday audience. You've never been here before. Neither one of you have ever hosted Midday's. It's exciting to meet you.
It's true. I have no idea. No idea what it is to take care of the people in the cubicles, the people in the beer trucks living their lives, man. I love your shift. You guys help people's day go by faster. It's a beautiful job. It's a beautiful job.
Like when we thanked the passage of time, which was Speaker's favorite joke on the show. Probably.
You guys' guest list today was killer. All killer, no filler today.
Yeah, I loved it all. You know, I don't even know where to start with all the guests, but I love Jake Peavy because he just never knows. It was a weird time when he was with the White Sox, personally and with the White Sox, and he just seemed like he loved, at least he told us that he loved his time in Chicago.
And I guess I was a little bit surprised to hear him so enthusiastic about the time here, considering what happened while he was here and that awful injury that he had that some people thought he would never recover from.
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Chapter 7: How should the Bears approach their defensive line needs?
And I did get a really cool picture of Anthony Rizzo with the trophy. And then a lot of people like, who is that guy again? That was Crane Kenny. What does he do? Can you get out of my shot? Hey, good morning. We're live. Other than that, it was great. Layla. It's a great character, though. I like that character development. I like that character, too. Who was that?
But you know that there were also the still drunk people who never stopped partying. Just out. And you know, Chicago rolls it into 4 a.m., so then by the time you're on with the morning show after the World Series, that was a scene.
No live interviews, I hope. Can we define that character? Can we define that Layla character? Is that Chicago morning person, a clueless sports human, or still drunk? Please define that voice.
Never stop using it. It was like the morning show reporter. There were many.
Let's call her Maggie Morning.
composite has to cover morning reporter who wants me to get out of their shot but tell them who they're interviewing sunrise sally i wish i were kidding this is a real thing that happened sunrise sally is actually real that's good i like that i can't imagine your reaction well i guess you just gave it to us somebody telling you layla even to get out of their shot that would not sit well i'm like i just told you who this guy is i have to get the interview too
That's how you get Mike whipped. And Spiegs, really quick, Spiegs did bring grilled cheese to the booth. That's my biggest memory of Matt Spiegel bringing everybody grilled cheese. Oh, yeah. I was just an extra guy in the booth because Casper was there as their real extra guy. I was like extra, extra if anybody needed anything.
Standing in the back with Mark Grody and Mitch Rosen as the Cubs were about to win the World Series. And the best thing I could offer, the best thing I could offer, Marshall, was to go downstairs and get grilled cheese sandwiches for me and Groats. And they were delicious. That worked. They were delicious. And of course, Mitch Rosen bringing the dry dogs, bringing hot dogs to everybody.
Pat Hughes loved a dry dog, didn't need anything on it. So dry dogs were born.
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