Day 2 NFL Combine Reactions: Defensive Line Winners and What to Make of Abdul Carter’s Injury.

The McShay Show

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Welcome back to ‘The McShay Show’! Todd and Steve are LIVE from Indianapolis to talk all the latest news from around the NFL. They open by discussing Abdul Carter’s foot injury and how teams may approach his decision to not get surgery. Then, the guys sort through Thursday’s testing numbers and identify which defensive players were the biggest Day 2 winners. (1:40) Abdul Carter's Injury Implications (9:20) Evaluating the DL workouts (48:00) DT Workout Evaluations (1:12:40) LB Workout Evaluations (1:18:40) Coming up this week from the Combine Sign up today to receive Todd’s Mock 1.0 and premium access to every mock draft, exclusive scouting reports, inside information from league sources, and deep-dive analyses from now until the draft. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Todd McShay Guest: Steve Muench Producers: Tucker Tashjian, Mark Panik, Conor Nevins, and Daniel Comer Social: Eduardo Ocampo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Thank you. Thank you. The
0:40.3	The Welcome in.
1:00.9	This is it.
1:01.5	Day one of workouts,
1:02.8	2025 NFL scouting combine.
1:06.0	I kind of forgot how big of a blur this whole thing is, right?
1:09.7	Tornado.
1:10.4	Absolute tornado.
1:11.6	And it started early in the day with news breaking.
1:14.6	Several defensive linemen didn't wind up working out, unfortunately.
1:19.6	Three of the top four edge rushers did not run.
1:22.6	The top three defensive tackles did not run.
1:25.6	We'll get to some of that information as we go through the position groups.
1:28.7	But the number one prospect in the entire draft class, Abdul Carter from Penn State, all of a sudden
1:35.3	news comes out that no one was aware of.
1:37.3	And let's go through the timeline real quickly.
1:40.3	All of a sudden, Adam Schefter is sending out ex post saying that he's a stress fracture in his
1:47.1	right foot and not knowing, it's not known at this point if he's going to wind up having to get
1:52.9	surgery. And so like, we're texting people, what's going on. Everyone's trying to get caught up.
2:00.3	It was breaking news and we're
2:01.8	trying to deal with it in the moment. And then all of a sudden we start to get information that,
2:05.6	okay, pump the brakes a little bit. It is a stress fracture. It's not going to require surgery.
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