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The Show: NFL Draft Bold Predictions, Slot Wide Receivers, and More

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

April 22, 2026

JJ and Kitchen break down the latest NFL Draft buzz, dive into Makai Lemon’s outlook after being a collegiate slot receiver, and wrap things up with some bold predictions for this year’s draft. Make sure to check out LateRound.com to preorder the 2026 Late-Round Prospect Guide.
Speakers: JJ, David Kitchen
**JJ** (0:00)
You're about to listen to The Late-Round Fantasy Football Show, which originally aired on YouTube. If you'd like to catch the show live this offseason, you can head to The Late-Round Fantasy Football YouTube channel, youtube.com/atlateroundff.
We'll be live each Wednesday at noon Eastern. Without further ado, here's this week's episode.

**David Kitchen** (0:33)
Welcome in, welcome in. It's The Late-Round Fantasy Football Show, sponsored by DraftKings. I'm David Kitchen, alongside JJ. We're just gonna call him JJ for today.
JJ, how's it going? Like how are you with the draft a day away? You just vibin.

**JJ** (0:51)
Best event of the year. I'm pumped. We were singing some Doug, the show Doug, the cartoon from when we were young.

**David Kitchen** (0:58)
Yeah, we're aging ourselves with that.

**JJ** (1:01)
Where we're doing a little, before the show started.
Yeah. It's a great time. It's a great time to be alive. It's a great time to be able to.

**David Kitchen** (1:14)
You're feeling it. You're talking about like pregnant ladies with a glow. You've got that-

**JJ** (1:19)
Got my cardio done today? Cardio is done. I made a bean salad that I just destroyed before we got on air.
We got the draft coming up. I mean, life could not be better than it is in this moment.

**David Kitchen** (1:29)
Any plans for a draft casserole tomorrow?

**JJ** (1:32)
I actually am making a casserole tonight. I'm making an Asian casserole. Got some cocoa aminos ready.

**David Kitchen** (1:37)
Very nice.

**JJ** (1:38)
I'm going to make some rice noodles, obviously gluten-free. They are gluten-free. Yeah. Yeah. For those of you who don't know, I make casserole.
It's my thing.

**David Kitchen** (1:48)
It's your thing. I mean, you said it's your thing. I'm saying it's your thing. So it's your thing.

**JJ** (1:55)
By the way, I have to say it's about the casserole.
My Instagram account, it's private. I mean, if you really want to follow me, I have to vet you a little bit. But I post casserole on there. I've had at least probably seven or eight people message me about different casserole recipes. So I am at least making an impact on people's lives posting the casserole on Instagram.

**David Kitchen** (2:21)
We should have a casserole recipe section in The Late-Round Discord that we have.

**JJ** (2:30)
Yeah, a casserole channel.

**David Kitchen** (2:31)
A casserole channel or just a food pics channel. Because you can post your casserole, I can post my smoked meats.

**JJ** (2:39)
I grill, hey, I grill too. I got my chicken going every week.

**David Kitchen** (2:44)
But I know your neighborhood is the grill mecca of North Carolina, some people are saying. But as far as The Late-Round Discord goes, I do just want to say, starting draft night, going through the week, and it's going to get crazy.
We're all going to be in the... Will it be in the live game banter channel or what channel?

**JJ** (3:09)
Yeah, live game banter. I'll be in there. Excuse me, all those...

**David Kitchen** (3:14)
Yeah.

**JJ** (3:14)
All that food I ate before starting the show.

**David Kitchen** (3:17)
That was a joke.

**JJ** (3:18)
I'll be in there while I'm writing blurbs and stuff, but I'll be able to give some Zap score updates and stuff. I think Jordan Tyson is going to probably break people's brains because for the record, if you guys are reading the prospect guide, Jordan Tyson's Zap score was a 92, which was a decent bit. I wouldn't say it was a definite tier above the other two, but you could have argued that he would be in his own tier based on the Zap model. I put them in the same tier just because of the injury stuff, blah, blah, blah. There was a chance that his draft capital would fall.
If he goes fifth overall, and I'm just putting in that five for the draft capital for Jordan Tyson, he's going to look very good in the Zap model. We'll say that.

**David Kitchen** (4:00)
Yeah, I was on the Swole Cash yesterday and I mentioned that I think one of the reasons why this Tyson's team will talk about this in a second. It is because somehow, someway, one of these prospect guides landed in a GM's lap and he was like, yeah.

**JJ** (4:19)
The dream, I don't even want to get paid by an NFL front office. I want to influence a front office by not doing any extra work. I don't want to work for a team. That would be horrible. But I would love to have the ear of a GM who's willing to hear.

**David Kitchen** (4:34)

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