Draft Room: Can Chris Johnson's Pro Day Buzz Push Him Into Round One?
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🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Pack Nation, the pro day circuit is in full swing and the Draft Room has everything you need to stay ahead of the board. Today we break down three pro days — San Diego State, Kansas State, and Wisconsin — before going deep on one of the most compelling under-the-radar edge prospects in this entire class: Mason Rieger out of Wisconsin.
- San Diego State: CB Chris Johnson reaffirmed his top-50 status, wowing scouts in positional drills despite not needing to prove anything after a strong combine. The Cowboys, Vikings, Chiefs, Steelers, and Seahawks are all circling — and Seattle may use their first-round finale on him.
- Kansas State: Center Sam Hecht continues to profile as the draft's cleanest interior technician (zero sacks over 1,600 college snaps), drawing a large Chicago Bears contingent. TE Jaran Brantley quietly boosted his stock with elite athleticism for a converted receiver.
- Wisconsin: Safety Austin Brown stole the room with a reported 4.47/43-inch vert combo, while OLB Mason Rieger headlined the day.
- Mason Rieger Deep Dive: Six knee surgeries. Louisville told him his career was over. He transferred, rehabbed, posted a 9.53 RAS, earned Shrine Bowl Defensive MVP, and is now climbing into Day 2 conversation. This is the full breakdown — strengths, weaknesses, scheme fit, and pro comps (Kyler Fackrell, Vince Biegel).
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the draft room. |
| 0:19.8 | This is the NFL draft podcast of the Packernet Podcast Network. |
| 0:26.1 | All right. So we're going to kind of stick with what we got going on here. I want to start ripping through. |
| 0:32.9 | Again, Tony Pauline did a little bit of a breakdown, his perspective, I guess, on some of these |
| 0:38.6 | pro days. I'm going to see what else I can find in regard to these specific pro days. We'll |
| 0:44.6 | take a break and then we'll come back and we'll highlight one of them. Again, please check out |
| 0:49.8 | NFL draftgrades.com. It's a site I built with the goal being giving people the opportunity to make |
| 0:55.6 | their own big boards. That's basically it. A secondary, the primary, honestly, for me was to be able to do |
| 1:03.0 | what I've been wanting to do with notes and everything. There's no way for me to put all the notes. |
| 1:07.5 | And I'm just, I, maybe I'm the only one on planet Earth and that's fine. It is free, by the way, to do it. |
| 1:12.3 | So it's not, whatever. |
| 1:14.8 | The secondary thing is if anybody has an audience, presumably bigger than mine, |
| 1:19.7 | I don't expect to get a ton of traction from it, |
| 1:22.1 | although I would love it if you would subscribe to my board. |
| 1:25.9 | Some of the people that have audiences, YouTube channels, |
| 1:28.3 | geared toward the NFL draft, is that you can actually build a board and make it a paid |
| 1:33.5 | board where people can subscribe monthly to see your big board. So that is what that is. |
| 1:40.3 | There's also mock drafts and all those kinds of things over there. I have to, |
| 1:44.2 | I got to get over there and update that to make sure everything's a little bit more accurate. |
| 1:49.0 | But anywho, that's just been a little side project of mine that I'm very excited about. |
| 1:55.0 | I might be the only one that's excited about it, but I like it and I use it. |
| 1:59.9 | So the guys that we talk about on the show, |
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