Draft Room: Sonny Styles Explodes, Lee Hunter Tanks, and a Hidden DT Gem Emerges
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The NFL Combine just blew the draft board wide open. Sonny Styles posted a 43.5-inch vertical — 100th percentile — and a 134-inch broad jump that had NFL Network comparing his workout to Calvin Johnson's. He went from a mid-first-round projection to a consensus top-five lock overnight, and the Micah Parsons comparisons are flying. Meanwhile, the rest of the class reminded everyone why this draft is historically weak at the top.
- Sonny Styles and Arvell Reese have essentially become mirror-image prospects — same school, same position, same 40 time — and both could go top five as versatile pass-rush weapons
- Caller Drew highlights Kentucky DT David Gusta, who ran a 4.88 at 308 pounds and posted a 9.75 RAS, turning himself into a legitimate day-three riser with starter upside
- Lee Hunter's disastrous 5.18 forty and 21.5-inch vert earned a 3.72 RAS, likely killing his second-round hype for Packers fans
- Malachi Lawrence from UCF may have been the biggest winner of the entire day, going from fringe top-100 to potential top-50 with a 9.9 RAS at edge rusher
- Lindsay Rhodes' insider observations paint a sobering picture: the top of this class is underwhelming, the pivot-and-adapt era is here, and power slot receivers may be the next league-wide obsession
- Caller Garrett raises a fascinating question about leveraging projected 2027 compensatory picks to trade up in this year's draft
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the draft room. |
| 0:18.7 | This is the NFL draft podcast of the Packernet Podcast Network. |
| 0:23.6 | Well, I did skip yesterday. I'm stupid when it comes to planning out, like, oh, tomorrow we'll do like the first day of the combine. |
| 0:31.0 | And then it dawned on me. It's not going to be done until like seven o'clock my time, I think it was. |
| 0:36.5 | And I want to get these up by five. So that isn't |
| 0:40.2 | going to work. So, you know, I decided, you know, let's just, let's just put a pause on one of these |
| 0:45.5 | and then we'll pick it up tomorrow rather than let's start from scratch and see if we can |
| 0:49.9 | build out some more stuff to talk about and kind of force an episode. With that said, pretty big |
| 0:57.1 | day yesterday, a lot of exciting stuff, very impressive prospects, both at the top end, which I went |
| 1:04.2 | on a whole tirade about. We talked too much about the top end, but we're going to spend a little bit |
| 1:07.9 | of time, especially on one particular prospect. |
| 1:12.6 | That really impressed. |
| 1:18.2 | But there's plenty of other prospects that are very, very interesting. |
| 1:23.3 | First of all, as I've said, though, I want this podcast to be as interactive as possible. |
| 1:28.5 | And, you know, part of this is going to be, we've got a very large Facebook group with a lot of people. |
| 1:34.9 | It's going to be about informing people that we're here and that this is a possibility and that we can, you know, call in. |
| 1:45.2 | And I would love for this to, I wouldn't say love necessarily, but if this became just a call in show, I would not be mad about it to just talk NFL draft and kind of do things that way with a little bit of, you know, let's talk about this, let's talk about that mixed in. |
| 1:51.0 | Maybe it was just like a segment or something, you know what I mean? I want this to be interactive. |
| 1:55.9 | I honestly enjoy it so much. Like, I love Packernet. I really do. And when I have something that I, like, |
| 2:04.2 | tomorrow's podcast, a lot of yelling. I just, I went off on a tangent. I enjoy that thoroughly. |
| 2:12.9 | But there are days where it's like, I don't know, man. I mean, we just got the news and I'll go |
| 2:16.2 | through the news. And that's good. You know, podcast is meant to be informative and you let people know what's going on in the world, but I don't look forward to it maybe as much. Packern night after dark, I always like. You guys steer the ship. You guys decide what to do, and I'm just kind of there going along with it, and we're just talking football, and it's interactive and it's fun so again this this will be like you know this draft podcast will be just as much your show as it is |
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