Breaking down Sonny Styles to Commanders with No. 7 pick in 2026 NFL Draft
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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JP Finlay and Mitch Tischler join you to discuss the Commanders' No. 7 overall selection in Sonny Styles out of Ohio State. The guys start by reacting to Washington's pick, look at how well the rookie linebacker will fit into Daronte Jones' new defensive system, hear at the end from Styles himself, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, everybody? |
| 0:10.8 | Kim Anders have selected Sunny Stiles at number seven, |
| 0:13.7 | linebacker from Ohio State. |
| 0:16.0 | What's crazy is my final mock we did on the radio. |
| 0:18.8 | This is exactly how I saw it going. |
| 0:20.6 | I thought Stiles would slip a saw it going i thought styles would |
| 0:21.4 | slip a bit and i thought washington would be able to grab them we know dan quinn loves them |
| 0:25.8 | adam peters loves athletes the student's the freakyest athlete in this draft he's the freakyest athlete |
| 0:30.9 | in the history of linebacker testing um i i like this pick a lot they wanted to get younger faster |
| 0:36.5 | stronger they did it with this dude in a major way. If you think about how slow the middle of that defense was and what it is now with Stiles, it's a game changer. The defense was awful. It had to get better. I know some fans wanted love. That was never happening. He went three. The owner in Arizona won in love. So that was |
| 0:54.9 | going to happen. And then Mitch, I know you loved Cardinal Tate. He went four, dude. Yeah, I was shocked |
| 1:00.4 | he went four. I wanted him to be a commander, but I am really happy with a Sunny Stiles pick. I think |
| 1:05.9 | you look at what he brings to a defense, particularly with the types of linebackers that we know |
| 1:10.6 | that Durante Jones and Dan Quinn, Adam Peters, wanted to bring in particularly after last season. And, you know, you mentioned it, but it's funny to think how far that position has come within one year. All of a sudden, it's a position of depth. It's a position of speed. And it's a, it's going to be a big part of their defense going forward yeah man i mean if you look at styles uh four years at ohio state two years ago the title year |
| 1:34.3 | um 16 games 100 tackles 10 and a half tfls six sacks these past season the numbers dip a little |
| 1:41.3 | but they also played two fewer games. |
| 1:48.2 | 82 tackles, six and a half, TFLs, a sack, a pick. |
| 1:50.0 | Do it all guy. |
| 1:51.6 | I think he's a green dot guy right away. |
| 1:56.4 | I think to go from Wagner to styles, you know, |
| 1:59.1 | nobody's going to have Wagner's experience and understanding, |
| 2:01.7 | but this is speed all over the field. It's a total different ballgame. And I think the way the draft board broke down, |
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