2026 NFL Scouting Combine Preview + Breaking Down Daniel Jeremiah’s Top 50 Prospects 2.0
NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Bucky Brooks and Rhett Lewis bring you a new episode of Move the Sticks! The guys break down the prospects with the most to gain, as well as the most to prove, during the draft’s biggest evaluation week. (1:21) They dive deep into a quarterback class full of uncertainty behind presumptive No. 1 pick Fernando Mendoza and explain why Mendoza skipping throwing drills is no big deal. Plus, a breakdown of an explosive edge rusher class and what evaluators should look for when freak athletes blur positional lines. Bucky and Rhett also unpack the biggest movers in Daniel Jeremiah’s latest Top 50 prospects list, including a major rise for Indiana wide receiver Omar Cooper. (17:09)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. |
| 0:10.9 | All right, what's up, everybody? |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to another episode of Move the Sticks here with you during Combine Week. |
| 0:19.4 | Bucky Brooks. I'm going to be with you on Combine today on a variety of our NFL media |
| 0:26.4 | platforms starting Thursday. |
| 0:28.6 | We will be with you two hours before the drills begin each day. |
| 0:35.1 | So, lucky, I am ready. |
| 0:37.4 | We've both been burning the midnight oil, as we always do |
| 0:40.7 | to kind of cram and get ready for this event and to get to know the 300 plus players that are |
| 0:44.8 | going to be here and fired up to go through that with you, my friend. What's been, give us a glimpse |
| 0:50.2 | into what your prep life has been over the course of the last couple weeks. |
| 0:54.9 | Well, we're just like this little notebook, this is my trusty draft notebook. |
| 0:59.1 | Just filling it up with all kinds of stuff, right? |
| 1:01.3 | Making grades, trying to really nail down top 150 players so we can just have these |
| 1:06.6 | conversations that can go on any tangent, any path. |
| 1:09.9 | We talk about the top prospects. |
| 1:11.2 | And because the combine is such a different event, but one where we're hearing that a lot |
| 1:17.0 | of top players are going to participate, it should be a lot of fun. And I'm looking forward to |
| 1:21.9 | seeing some of the best players put their wares on display. Yeah, players like Sunny Stiles and Arvel Reese and Jeremiah Love going to run, |
| 1:31.5 | the running back from Notre Dame, top running back in this class, and his buddy Judarian |
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