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The McShay Show

Draft-Eligible Defenders To Know for the College Football Season

The McShay Show

The Ringer

Football, Sports

4.7663 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to The McShay Show! The guys are diving deep on the defensive side of the ball and breaking down the top prospects they think could be selected early in the 2026 NFL draft. Subscribe to The McShay Report for access to all of Todd’s scouting reports and tape notes during the Summer Scouting Series. (0:00) Welcome to The McShay Show! (1:05) McShay Show News and Notes(9:05) Evaluating The Top Defensive Prospects(16:53) Evaluating Caleb Downs [Ohio State Safety](21:20) Evaluating Peter Woods [Clemson IDL](23:35) Evaluating TJ Parker [Clemson EDGE](26:35) Evaluating Caleb Banks [Florida IDL](37:45) Evaluating Rueben Bain Jr. [Miami DL](45:30) Evaluating Gabe Jacas [Illinois OLB](51:20) Evaluating Matayo Uiagalelei [Oregon EDGE](54:10) Evaluating Anthony Hill Jr. [Texas LB] + Deontae Lawson [Alabama LB](1:09:05) Evaluating More Defensive Prospects The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available.Host: Todd McShayGuests: Steve MuenchProducers: Tucker Tashjian, Mark Panik, Conor Nevins, and Daniel ComerSocial: Eduardo Ocampo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know, Medch, the longer I'm in this business, the more I just absolutely love studying

0:08.4

defensive prospects on tape.

0:10.6

Even more so than offensive, I'm being honest.

0:13.2

There's something about the violence, the reaction skills, the rallying to the ball and the energy

0:18.3

after a play.

0:19.8

So today's the perfect way to wrap up phase one of our two-phase summer scouting series. And there's only 269 days until the NFL draft meant you good? I'm good, man. You always are, brother. Give me some beach vibes, please.

1:11.7

All right, three quick housekeeping matters, okay? First of all, we're doing defensive prospects today. I know this is where I get yelled at. McShay, you talk to, skip to the players. We only want to hear the players. We'll deal with it. It's going to be just one or two minutes, okay? First off, newsletters out tomorrow. If you don't subscribe, come on, man, let's go. Let's the mcshay report google it i'm not kirk signetti i'm just saying google the mitchie report and uh and and and

1:19.3

you'll find out it's the quickest way you can get to it and you'll figure out how to subscribe to

1:23.6

you can subscribe for free for premium premium um users users, you will get the opportunity to, like most recently we did

1:31.9

the Q&A, right?

1:33.1

They get to send in their questions.

1:35.3

We answered, like, I think almost 30 of them between the show that we did and the newsletter.

1:41.9

This one coming up is going to be a deeper dive into the top defensive prospects in all

1:47.2

of college football for the 2026 NFL draft.

1:50.5

So get involved.

1:51.9

We need your support.

1:52.8

We're building this thing.

1:53.7

And speaking of support, Mench, how can the fine folks help us out here?

1:58.2

Go to YouTube, find the McShay show show almost says the mcshay report find

2:02.6

the mcshay show hit the follow button go to spotify hit the subscribe button he's at mcshay 13

2:08.8

on all his socials i am at you good mench on all mine perfect easy i want it we're always doing

2:15.3

the mitchie this the mcshay that let's talk about mensch for a minute

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