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Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast with Kyle Long & Mike Renner

CBS Sports, Football, NFL

Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Mike Renner and Kyle Long catch you up on the MONSTER contracts signed by premier pass rushers on the eve of training camp. Then they draft OROY and DROY candidates before giving you their favorite rookie sleepers to watch during camp. Intro (0:00) Tj Watt Megadeal (1:05) George Karlaftis Extension (7:28) NFLPA Madness (9:26) OROY Draft (14:15) Will Levis To Miss Season (28:35) DROY Draft (34:22) Rookie Sleepers (45:59) Pushing the Pile is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NFLonCBS Download and Follow Pushing the Pile on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2RFkEgdbFxbPBDU5F5xEjJ?si=1062d40c04e24fd5 Follow our PTP team on Twitter: @mikerenner_, @Ky1eLong, @pushingthepile Sign up for the Pick Six Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters For more NFL coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos. You can listen to Pushing the Pile on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Pushing the Pile podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Pushing the Pile podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:07.7	Welcome into today's episode of pushing the pile.
0:10.5	Mike Renner, Kyle Long.
0:11.9	We are going through offensive and defensive rookie of the year candidates.
0:18.2	We're going to draft those.
0:19.3	We're just going to basically go through this rookie class a lot of it. Talk about who we think is going to make some of the biggest
0:23.6	impact. Obviously for things like rookie of the year, that tends to be towards skill positions,
0:28.6	but we're going to give some love to office. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, a lot of love for the bigs,
0:32.6	okay? But unfortunately, it's just us. It's, that's the way of the world. We're going to hear it, we're here to change it.
0:38.0	We're going to be trying to change it.
0:39.5	But when we go through the draft,
0:40.8	and this is good to tell you right now, I'm not going to draft a single offensive line. Okay. It's just the way it is. I might put you in a corner, force your hand. We're too early in the process of changing it. maybe by year five,
0:35.2	year six of this pod,
0:36.4	the first pick will be an offense plan.
0:38.1	There you go.
0:38.7	We'll be taken,
0:40.0	you know, the next cow long in the top, the top pick here. But until then, we got some news to break, though, not to break, to talk about. Yep. So big deals getting signed. The biggest of the bunch was T.J. Watt, who at 30 years old, you know, remember
1:12.4	last week we discussed it, why I was a little worried about this Steelers team because
1:16.1	your three best defensive players are all on the wrong side of 30.
1:20.1	Well, that didn't stop the Pittsburgh Steelers for giving him a four-year, $123 million
1:26.4	extension.
1:32.4	The cap hits as it stands this season, $23.3 million.
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