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The Sports Junkies

Best of Commanders on 106.7 The Fan/The Team 980: Welcome to DC, Sonny Styles!

The Sports Junkies

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The NFL Draft has finally come, and with their first-round pick, the Commanders selected Sonny Styles at No. 7 overall! Listen as we react to the selection here, along with JP Finlay’s exclusive sit-down with Styles at the NFL Draft!

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0:00.0

Finley 106-7 the fam.

0:04.4

B, do you remember last week when I said,

0:07.7

the Giants trading back to 10 means they get to be aggressive at 5 and they'll get a tackle at 10?

0:13.5

That sure happened.

0:17.5

It's interesting watching things unfold where you don't know what's going to happen but you can kind of like figure out a strategy

0:23.4

i think for washington the strategy was pretty simple it's just get the best guy we can and i think they

0:31.3

they accomplished that now i know you got to talk to sunny styles last night right what was your

0:35.8

no no brian talked to him.

0:37.8

I didn't.

0:39.6

Oh, I thought he joined you guys on the desk.

0:40.1

No, no, no.

0:42.0

Because they had to come over there to us.

0:44.4

So Brian was the one of the guy, I went and talked to him.

0:50.3

Ah, okay. Yeah. Yeah, because if he had walked all the way to you guys, that would have never, he'd be, yeah, right.

0:53.9

That would have been a zoo.

0:57.6

Well, I got to talk to Sunny Stiles last night, and these are brief conversations, but it is a window into who somebody is, and I was thoroughly impressed.

1:03.8

Here's my conversation with Sunny Stiles from Draft Night. I want to start by saying congratulations.

1:09.7

What's this moment like for you? I appreciate it. I'm just blessed. Super blessed to be here. You know, and thank God. I think my family, you know, it takes all everyone and everything to get to this moment. It's not just me. A lot of sacrifices to get here. So I'm just super blessed. You said when you woke up, you felt like you were going to be a commander. Why? Where did that come from? It was a good feeling. You know, I think it was God.

1:28.3

You know, I think it was God.

1:29.3

You know, I think it was the people in the building. It was great people in the building, everyone. From head coach, GM, all the way down to the player development, everyone. It's a bunch of great people, and I think I was drawn towards that. It just felt like it was meant to be. What was your connection like with Dan Quinn and Adam Peters in some of those meetings?

1:44.3

That was awesome.

1:45.1

Great conversations.

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