Biggest Draft RISERS From The Combine + NEW 2026 NFL Mock Draft | Full 1st Round
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta give their biggest Draft risers from the NFL Combine. The guys also put together a brand new mock draft in real time, going through all 32 first-round picks!
(00:00) Intro
(2:25) QB Draft Risers
(9:29) RB Draft Risers
(12:45) WR Draft Risers
(16:30) TE Draft Risers
(21:24) OL Draft Risers
(25:41) DT Draft Risers
(29:01) DE Draft Risers
(32:52) LB Draft Risers
(36:16) CB Draft Risers
(39:54) S Draft Risers
(43:27) Mock Draft Picks 1-16
(1:04:09) Mock Draft Picks 17-32
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into this Monday morning edition of pushing the pile, Mike Brenner, JP.P. Acosta, doing a little combine recap. |
| 0:23.0 | Risers. We're not doing fallers. There's no fallers coming out of the combine. We need the whole |
| 0:27.8 | breadth of their pre-draft process before we're going to say who really, you know, maybe went up |
| 0:33.2 | or down. But there are some risers. We're going to talk about guys who impressed. We're going to |
| 0:37.3 | go through position by position, give one player apiece, maybe shout out to a few more because |
| 0:42.2 | there are some positions that trying to decide, I think offensive tackle was one, linebacker |
| 0:47.5 | in other words, just like, dude, you could throw a dart and hit a guy who was awesome in this |
| 0:51.5 | year's combine. So we'll do that at the top and then get to mock drafts at the end. |
| 0:57.3 | JP, though, what were some of your biggest takeaways from the weekend watching |
| 1:01.1 | an indie? |
| 1:02.4 | This Edge class is so fun on like day two where I think a lot of this draft in general, like |
| 1:10.2 | it doesn't have the juice that previous |
| 1:12.2 | drafts have at the top or like that in terms of like instant impact like players. |
| 1:17.7 | But I do think the day two, day three group is where most of the money is going to be made |
| 1:22.0 | in this draft class. |
| 1:22.9 | I think there are a lot of interesting players. |
| 1:24.7 | I think a lot of interesting storylines. |
| 1:26.2 | And there are a lot of at least starting caliber, starting quality guys in day two, especially in the edge group. |
| 1:32.5 | We're going to talk about a couple of guys who I think have put themselves firmly into |
| 1:36.2 | day two, like round two scenarios. But I do think that this edge class has a lot of fun players |
| 1:42.5 | to go on day two, and we haven't even gotten to most of them |
| 1:45.5 | actually testing. It also is the shortest armed edge class of any I can ever remember. We talked |
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