If every non-Cup driver was on the board, here's how it goes. Corey Heim won 12 Truck races last year and doesn't have a full-time ride. That's pick one. The other nine are just as uncomfortable.
Pick : , Age If Every Non-Cup Driver Was on the Board, Here's How It Goes By PitByNumbers Staff 10 min read KEY TAKEAWAYS • Thirty-two NFL teams will spend tonight agonizing over the next generation of franchise cornerstones. They will watch film for months. They will fly to small college towns to time a 40-yard dash.
They will build entire war rooms around a decision that takes 10 seconds to announce. Meanwhile, NASCAR has a 23-year-old who won 12 races last season. Twelve.
A number so disconnected from anything the Truck Series had ever seen that the previous record — 9, set by Greg Biffle in 1999 — doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence. He led 1,627 laps across 25 events. He became the first driver in the history of any of NASCAR's 3 national series to lead a lap in every single race of a season.
His average finish through the 7 playoff races was 1.4. He won 4 times as many races as his closest competitor. He does not have a full-time Cup ride.
If that sentence does not make you want to flip something, read it again. Welcome to the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Mock Draft. The NFL Draft is tonight.
We ran the same exercise for NASCAR. The rules are simple: every driver currently without a full-time Cup seat is eligible. We are not projecting where they will go.
We are projecting where they should go — if every Cup team general manager had the same information NFL scouts do tonight, and the same willingness to act on it. Most of them don't. That is the whole point.
He is. The Talladega trophy says so.