BONUS EP: Combine Deep Dive and Measuring Our Arms With Todd McShay and Steve Muench

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

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🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The guys are joined by Todd McShay and Steve Muench to break down how teams really build their draft boards, what traits actually matter, and why arm measurements always take over combine week. They also dive into quarterback evaluations and the gap between mock drafts and what front offices are truly thinking.(00:00) Intro(01:57) Special segment with Todd McShay and Steve Muench(09:51) Arm measurements(30:19) Todd Todd Todd Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau Check out The Ringer’s 2026 NFL Draft Guide: https://theringer.com/nfl-draft/2026/big-board#content Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Austin Gayle, Abou Kamara, Carlos Chiriboga, and Cameron Dinwiddie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:21.8	My name is Danny Hyattfordson.
0:22.6	I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Rolbeck.
0:24.1	I did a moment by Todd McShay and Steve Mench.
0:26.3	We're here at the Combine in Indianapolis and we had Todd and Steve from the McShay
0:30.6	report, the McShay show and Todd does the McShay report.
0:33.6	And they came on the show.
0:34.6	It was awesome.
0:35.6	We had a really fun conversation about the combine and in-depth analysis of players.
0:39.6	And we also measured their arms. Many body parts were measured. Several different body parts. From several different people stick around to find out. I think it's a great job of going and finding a tape measure in the hotel. Yes. So props to you for that. I got to tell you, props to me for that, but also props because we recorded this with Todd and Steve on Wednesday night. Wednesday night. And you will see in this episode, we literally had the conversation of, so where do the shoulders begin? And we argued about it. And guess what happened? Ruben Bain, we have conflicting reports of whether his arms are under 30, 31 or over 32. And it's the same freaking conversation we had in our dumb bit where we wanted to measure arms in this episode. And you know what? We fucking nailed it. Also, the reports of Hyphitz's arm length. We'll find out. You'll find out what they, uh, what do you say? About my 34 inch arms. Let's just say your wedding measurements were a little hyped up.
1:28.5	Right.
1:29.2	What do you say?
1:30.6	Well, people will see.
1:31.4	Embellishment a little bit.
1:33.6	Let's just say you went from a day one guy to a day two.
1:35.9	At least two teams measured my arms of 34 inches.
1:38.7	I don't understand what the problem is.
1:40.7	As you can see, we had some fun.
1:42.6	And Mench and Todd played ball with us, which was very nice of them.
1:45.6	Absolutely. So yeah. We're going to go to that interview. And if you're watching on video, then we're going to just change out all these chairs for couches and our clothes really quickly. So just boom. Tuck, roll that beat. A wrong show.
1:57.8	Special segment here from Indianapolis. We're here with todd mcshay and steve mention it's the
2:02.8	only time me to be called steve the entire show from the mcshay report good how you guys doing
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