Welcome into today's episode of pushing the pile. We're coming to you live here from the NFL

Combine in Indianapolis. We're going to be going through burning questions

that we want to see as the weekend of workouts starts tomorrow with the defensive line,

linebackers, some of the guys who will go highly in this draft class. Mike Renner, J.P. Acosta,

we each have five. I came up with five. J.P. came up with five burning questions that we're

hoping to see answer. We're not saying they're going to answer, but we need to see them get answered

this weekend. So J.P., I'll let you do the honors. Break it off for us. What's your first

burning question you want to see? So my first question for the combine is which nose tackle stands out from this pack of defense tackles that in this class?

We know at the top of the draft class there's Peter Woods from Clemson, Caleb Banks from Florida.

Those feel like the first two guys that are going to go off the board come April when it comes to the defensive tackle class.

But then after that there's a group of defensive tackles that more profile as one technique, nose tackles, run defenders, but how they separate themselves when it comes to their athleticism, their pass rush upside is going to be how they separate themselves come April.

Those guys are Lee Hunter from Texas Tech who I think has flashes of brilliance and dominance as a pass rusher,

but those things are just sort of flashes right now.

Katie McDonald from Ohio State is much more of a run defender.

He is probably the best run defender of any defensive tackle in this draft class,

but he's a limited pass rusher.

Christian Miller from Georgia has the pass rush win rate, has the pressure rate of a pass

rusher that can really, like, grow in the NFL, but he didn't do that a lot because Georgia's

defensive scheme, Dominique Orange and Darrell Jackson Jr. both are more one techniques to have

limited pass rush upside.

But how those guys separate themselves at the combine is going to be really what

I'm looking out for. Yeah, I think we're in kind of lockstep there with the top two, whether

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