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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Annual NFL Top Five at Every Position With Sheil Kapadia. Plus, Stanford Steve Previews Texas–Ohio State and CFB Week 1.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Russillo is joined by Sheil Kapadia for the annual rankings of the top five at every position in the NFL! They go through each position and discuss what Josh Allen needs to do to be considered the best QB in the NFL. Then, Stanford Steve comes on to share the teams that could have the biggest variance this season, preview the biggest matchups of Week 1, and reveal the games he’d most like to attend this season. Plus, Life Advice with Ceruti and Wargon! (0:00) Welcome to The Ryen Russillo Podcast! (0:40) Sheil Kapadia joins the show (1:11) Ranking the five best players at every position, starting with QB (4:28) Is Josh Allen the best QB in the NFL? (5:47) RB (11:10) WR (14:57) TE (19:31) O-line units (23:06) DT (26:58) DE (32:14) CB (36:24) S (40:39) LB (49:51) Russillo welcomes in Stanford Steve (52:12) Teams that have the biggest variance in college football (1:02:11) How should we feel about Dante Moore? (1:06:39) Thoughts on Ohio State–Texas (1:09:39) Notre Dame–Miami Preview (1:14:20) Don’t sleep on Texas A&M or USC (1:17:59) The game Steve most wants to go to this season (1:25:52) Stanford Steamers win totals (1:33:21) Is Ryen still a Bears fan? (1:42:41) Life Advice! (1:47:11) Should I kayak to work? (2:00:10) My ex-girlfriend demanded money from me Check us out on YouTube for exclusive clips, livestreams, and more at https://www.youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Sheil Kapadia and Stanford Steve Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, Mike Wargon, and Jonathan Frias Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

How much football can you handle?

0:12.2

Do you want even more football than you can handle?

0:14.3

We're doing top five at every position in the offensive line units,

0:17.5

which you'll probably would do it every year.

0:19.0

So a lot of fun conversations about trying to figure out who the five best in the NFL

0:23.5

are at each position.

0:25.1

And some Stanford Steve picks.

0:28.0

We're talking college ball.

0:29.2

He's on the road.

0:30.1

We go over the rank matchups in week one of this season and pick the game we most

0:35.2

would want to be at in 2025.

0:40.8

Excited to do this annual top five at every position in the NFL.

0:44.3

Shield Capati, who joins us from a little bit of free time from the Ringer NFL show now five days a week.

0:49.6

My protect the shield pitch, I guess we'll have to wait another year for that one,

0:53.5

because considering

0:54.3

this is, this is you protecting football content, daily, daily resources. What's up, man?

1:01.8

That's right. Five days a week, you know, 30 to 35 minute episodes on the Ringer NFL show. So,

1:07.1

there you go. That's my plug. Now we can get to the good stuff. So the way I do this is, you know, I looked at, shout out to Jeremy Fowler and ESPN.com for having some of the executive stuff and they had voting at all the positions and they go through the top 10 and then other people being mentioned. I checked out a lot of the PFF stuff as well. And there's a massive amount of disparity between what executives have voted and then what some of the grading stuff is. You can find things you like and complaints with all of it if you want. And then I think there's just a little bit of an eye test and status thing that I combine into mine. She'll knows it far better than I do. Let's start with quarterbacks. I already spent an hour on this with Sando, so I don't think this needs to be something we spend a lot of time on.

1:48.1

For me, it's Mahomes, Alan Burrow, and Lamar. You could probably flip Lamar with guys in front, maybe even Burrow if you wanted to.

1:55.6

I think the real question comes down to fifth, who you think the fifth best quarterback is in the NFL.

2:00.7

Yeah, I mean, the fifth quarterback spot has just been a gift from the content gods this all season. I mean, how many TV segments, podcasts, just the fifth spot, you know, you can take it any direction you want. I didn't learn my lesson from last year. So last year, I went CJ Stroud, and I was like, I love this guy, rookie, ascending,

2:19.3

and of course he takes a little step back. This year, I'm making the same, maybe making the same

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