Biggest Needs For EVERY AFC Team + JSN Gets PAID 💰
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta give their biggest needs for all 16 AFC teams following free agency as we sit 31 days away from the NFL Draft. The guys also react to Jaxon Smith-Njigba getting a four-year, $168.6M contract extension with the Seattle Seahawks, becoming the highest-paid WR in NFL history.
(00:00) Intro
(00:57) Jaxon Smith-Njigba extension
(4:55) AFC East
(17:42) AFC North
(26:56) AFC South
(41:26) AFC West
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into this Monday morning edition of pushing the pile. |
| 0:18.2 | Mike writer J.P. Acosta will be rolling through the biggest needs for every team in the |
| 0:22.7 | AFC on today's show. |
| 0:24.0 | Wednesday show will be the biggest needs for every team in the NFC prior to the NFL |
| 0:27.7 | draft, which is J.P. |
| 0:29.7 | Officially one month away. |
| 0:31.9 | It feels like it's coming by faster this year. |
| 0:35.4 | I don't know about you, but it feels like we've sort of speed run to the finish of the NFL |
| 0:40.4 | draft. |
| 0:40.9 | But now because we're one month closer, it's going to start going by so slow. |
| 0:46.3 | April is my favorite month. |
| 0:47.9 | I do love, it feels like you get a lot of info then, but then it's just like the theories that get bandied |
| 0:56.8 | about. Like April's always a show leading up, but I think it's because maybe the drafts a little |
| 1:01.1 | earlier this year than normal, 23rd, which is usually like 24th, 25th, 26, around that range |
| 1:06.7 | is when it starts. But I'm pumped. We're going to be doing a lot of draft coverage from now |
| 1:10.6 | until then. We're going to start with a lot of draft coverage from now until then. |
| 1:12.0 | We're going to start with a little something that's not draft related. |
| 1:14.5 | It's Jackson Smith and Jigba, who the news broke this morning, just signed a record-breaking |
| 1:19.5 | deal to become the highest paid wide receiver in NFL history. |
| 1:23.4 | Four years, $168 million becomes the Jamar Chase previously at $40 million a year was the highest. |
| 1:32.5 | He obviously breaks that at just over $42 million a year. |
| 1:36.1 | And you can argue, like, is he the best receiver in football? |
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