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The McShay Show

Combine Coverage Day One: Intel and Evaluating Who Is Primed to Shine in Indy. Plus, Patriots EVP Eliot Wolf.

The McShay Show

The Ringer

Sports, Football

4.7661 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The McShay Show! Todd and Muench are live from the NFL combine in Indianapolis to share their latest intel and the top five prospects who are primed to boost their draft stock. Plus, Patriots EVP Eliot Wolf sits down for the latest segment of the Decision-Makers series to discuss his journey as an NFL executive, his favorite parts of the job, drafting Drake Maye, and what's next for Will Campbell. 0:00 Welcome to The McShay Show!3:00 NFL combine coverage: Day one4:40 Which prospects are primed to shine in Indy?40:25 Patriots EVP of player personnel Eliot Wolf joins the show42:40 Eliot's grading scale for prospects44:12 Self-scouting Will Campbell's development46:50 Eliot's journey to becoming an NFL executive52:40 Drafting Drake Maye56:40 Managing long-term draft capital Learn more and join the waitlist at ScoutMotors.com. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit ⁠www.rg-help.com⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Todd McShayGuest: Steve MuenchProducers: Tucker Tashjian, Conor Nevins, Daniel Comer, Jake Loskutoff, and Nik StanjevichSocial: Abou Kamara Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're looking live at the McShea Show from Indianapolis, Indiana, the home of the NFL scouting combine.

0:12.4

We've got up-to-date news for you, players that we think are going to have their draft stock soar from what they do on the field later this week.

0:19.7

And we sat down with Elliot Wolfe, the executive vice president of player personnel for the New

0:24.6

England Patriots, talked to him about his Super Bowl run and kind of his background on what got

0:29.2

him to where he is today.

0:31.0

And news for you, 59 days until the NFL draft.

0:35.8

Mitch, you good?

0:36.7

Couldn't be better.

0:40.3

Tucker, roll that beat for me, please. For everyone that was worried, myself included, about mentioning

1:00.0

it here to Indianapolis, not traveling with Marissa and I, he did it.

1:04.0

And that's the first breaking news we have for you today.

1:08.0

Excited to be here. We're going to be here all week. We've got seven days of shows. We're going to recap it all on Monday when we get back next week. But today is Monday, the first day at the Combine. You see the beautiful streets of Indianapolis. Construction going on. If you watch the McAfee show, I'm sure they've talked a lot about how the streets are messed up. All I know is we got a little snow here today, but we didn't get 32 inches like Providence. We didn't get 28 inches like Cohasset, Massachusetts. Wow. Lord only knows what they got up in Derry, New Hampshire. You haven't even checked in. I'm sure Iris will. Man, we're excited about this new partnership. This episode is presented by Scout Motors.

1:45.7

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2:15.9

Joining the wait list does not guarantee purchase. Visit scout motors.com for details. Let's just get right to it. We've got Elliot Wolf in the back end. Great interview. We literally just finished it up. We're going to play it for you. Tucker's in the back right now, making sure everything's set to go at the end of this show. We sat down with him. He was kind enough to come over to our hotel and had a great talk with him about, you know, son of Ron Wolf, 10 years old, watching film with his dad inside the, inside of Lambo Field. What kind of got him to where he is today? How did he and Vrable wind up meshing? I thought that was interesting. Some of the highlights of the job, his least favorite parts of the job, what his spread is, good New England spread for draft weekend.

2:57.3

So we got all that to share today.

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