With new Panini Senior Bowl leadership comes change.

The all-star game is highlighting some of the top prospects for the 2026 NFL Draft (April 23-25 in Pittsburgh) with its first ever Top 300, released on Wednesday . With executive director Drew Fabianich taking over for the departed Jim Nagy, this new take on a preseason watch list was capped at 300 players -- down from the whopping 859 on last year’s list .

Fabianich, the longtime national scout for the Dallas Cowboys, said the slimmed-down list of players to watch for the 2026 Senior Bowl is about mirroring the level of excellence the game has established.

"We're the premiere all-star game -- always have been, always will be -- and we should reflect the list accordingly," Fabianich told NFL.com. "One of our taglines at the Senior

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