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The PFF NFL Podcast

2026 NFL Combine: Defensive Line & Linebacker Testing Winners and Losers

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4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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PFF's Trevor Sikkema and Max Chadwick highlight standout performances from the linebackers and defensive lineman at the 2026 NFL Combine. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

What's going on everybody.

0:19.7

Welcome back to the PFF NFL show.

0:21.8

Trevor Sikkimap, Max Chadwick, here for you guys,

0:24.4

filling in for Dalman.

0:25.5

As we freak out over Combine performances.

0:29.3

And Max, you got the call up here for this show

0:31.7

simply because, well, I think you freak out about

0:34.7

combined performances a little bit more than Dalton.

0:36.7

So we switched it out.

0:37.7

We gave you the opportunity to freak out here with me because we saw some unreal performances on day one of the field drills in the Indianapolis Scout and Combine.

0:47.9

It was the defensive line, the edge rushers, the defensive tackles, and the linebackers that were on display and historic performances. And And man, I'm excited to break it down with you. How you doing, my friend? I'm doing great. You know, Dalton called it the underwear Olympics one too many times. We had to cut them from the show today. But yeah, I'm excited, man. There were some awesome players that we saw the combine yesterday. A lot of guys that are going to be top 15 picks in the draft showed why they're going to

1:11.3

be top 15 picks in the draft.

1:12.5

Like you said, some historic combine performances. No question about it. So let's just dig right into it. And we're going to have some obviously a little bit more detailed conversations on the exact performances from a lot of these guys. We'll go through a ton of the numbers. we'll talk about, you know, percentiles, how rare it is that they perform the way that they did.

1:29.7

We'll also give you some updated measurables from what we're confirmed from yesterday as well. So it was a big day for information. So we'll talk about these prospects, but also I think that as we kind of go through these drills and we get these confirmed measurements, medicals, testing times, everything, it gives us a good feel of how strong or how weak some of these positions are.

1:47.7

But, man, in the case of yesterday, it's basically just strong.

1:51.3

It's incredible.

1:52.1

Speaking of, let's start with the man of the hour.

1:54.2

The man of the week, a performance that I just do not think is going to be top.

1:57.8

So we started off with the absolute best in Sonny Stiles,

2:01.7

the off ball linebacker from Ohio State.

2:04.1

So Stiles, so numbers here for him, 6 foot 5,

2:08.5

245 pounds, which first and foremost, Max, is hilarious because two years ago,

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