Draft Room: Position-by-Position Combine Preview — Who Has the Most to Prove
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The NFL Combine isn't just a formality — for dozens of prospects, it's the single biggest audition of their lives. This episode of the Draft Room breaks down, position by position, every prospect whose draft stock could dramatically rise or crater based on what happens in Indianapolis.
- Diego Pavia needs to prove his arm is NFL-caliber to overcome his 5'9" frame, while Joey Aguilar's bizarre NIL lawsuit and medical history raise serious commitment and durability questions for teams
- Ruben Bain's arm length could shift him from top-5 edge rusher to interior defensive tackle, and Arvell Reese faces the dangerous Micah Parsons comparison that burns more prospects than it helps
- Harold Perkins Jr. and Damani Jackson were both elite recruits who never fully delivered on their potential — the Combine is their last shot to reignite the hype
- Key weigh-ins for Desmond Reed, Caden Proctor, and Romelo Height could swing their draft positions by multiple rounds, plus the small-school prospects from Toledo, Buffalo, and Stephen F. Austin looking to prove they belong
From medical red flags to positional identity crises to small-school validation, this is your complete guide to the prospects who need the Combine most. #NFLDraft #NFLCombine #DraftRoom #PackernetPodcast
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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. |
| 0:25.3 | If you'd like to call in, send a mock to whatever it is you want to do, questions, comments, concerns. |
| 0:30.5 | The phone number here is 608561, 3243. We don't have any of those today. So we'll stick to the regular |
| 0:39.8 | scheduled programming. As I said yesterday, I tried to kind of stay away from it so that I could |
| 0:44.7 | still end up doing what we're going to do today. And that is, whereas yesterday we looked at guys |
| 0:50.6 | that could really blow the doors off. Today I want to look more at who does the |
| 0:56.0 | combine matter for? Because some of these things are kind of a formality. Right. Fernando |
| 1:02.4 | Mendoza, he's not even going to throw at the combine. You know, even the interviews mean nothing |
| 1:08.3 | because he has a lock spot you know you could say medicals |
| 1:13.6 | but i don't think there's any flags they're looking for it's just if something were to come up but |
| 1:18.0 | um it's it's it's a formality pretty much across the board and that's true of several prospects |
| 1:25.7 | not that we 100% know but you can kind of look at some people and say, you know, we know what you are. |
| 1:32.4 | Other people, there are questions, and they can really help or hurt their draft stock at the combine. |
| 1:38.4 | So I want to try to identify a couple of those prospects. |
| 1:41.4 | And I figure we'll do it in a position by position way because why not. |
| 1:45.5 | So the first guy I want to highlight is Diego Pavia out of Vanderbilt. Now, obviously, it's kind of, |
| 1:54.0 | it's not really a measurement issue because they know what his height is. He's 5-9 and 7-8ths and |
| 1:59.7 | 198. Like he's a small dude. Everybody knows that. We know what his height is. He's 5-9 and 7-8ths and 198. Like, he's a small dude. Everybody knows that. |
| 2:02.8 | We know what his measurements are. The issue with Pavia is less about his height, which everybody |
| 2:08.2 | knows is an issue. The question is all the other stuff. It's obviously a non-desirable quality to be a smaller quarterback, but some guys can overcome that if they check a couple extra boxes, at least insofar as we're willing to take a risk on them. |
| 2:29.7 | We're willing to take a chance. |
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