Draft Room: This "Underwhelming" Draft Class Just Broke Every Combine Record
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The combine just reshuffled the entire top of the draft board, and we're breaking down every bit of it. Todd McShay is now floating Sonny Styles as high as number two to the Jets after a Mount Rushmore-level athletic performance, and the gap between Styles and Arvell Reese is suddenly a real conversation. Meanwhile, Ty Simpson went from falling out of the first round to generating top-10 buzz, with the Cleveland Browns doing extensive work on the former Alabama quarterback.
- McShay's "Hall of Fame tier" vs. "really good tier" creates uncomfortable draft room debates about positional value — would you pass on elite talent at linebacker, safety, running back, or guard for a slightly flawed edge or tackle?
- The 2026 combine class shattered speed and explosiveness records at nearly every position group, led by historic performances from Styles, Kenyan Sadiq, Eli Stowers, and Monroe Freeling
- Freeling's prototype left tackle measurables have him surging up boards, potentially leapfrogging Maui Noah and Fano, while Spencer Fano's elite agility opens up an interior projection conversation
- Ty Simpson's combine performance and his family connection to Browns HC Todd Monken have reignited his stock — and some are even debating his tape against Mendoza's through nine games
The top five is wide open after Mendoza, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the draft room. |
| 0:18.9 | This is the NFL draft podcast of the Packernet Podcast Network. |
| 0:23.9 | If you'd like to call in, if you'd like to participate in the conversation, please feel |
| 0:29.1 | free to do so. The phone number is 608-561-3-23243. So it's Monday. We usually do a mock draft, but I'm going to skip that |
| 0:41.2 | because the amount of news is piling up to an astronomical level, and we got to start getting |
| 0:48.6 | through some of this stuff. So we'll probably skip this week unless we get through a bunch of news |
| 0:53.3 | or whatever, and we'll do it later. I don't know. But post-combine, as we've been primarily just focused on not so much the |
| 1:00.3 | news, well, kind of news, I guess it is, but more so just the combine results and the conversations |
| 1:08.1 | surrounding that. Obviously, quite a few things have reshaped, you know, where people fall on the big boards, |
| 1:15.0 | different discussions being had about players and how that impacts things. |
| 1:19.5 | And so I want to start going through some of that stuff. |
| 1:22.7 | We've got some main sources of contact here, Todd McShay. |
| 1:27.1 | He's got his little, what you might call, |
| 1:31.0 | it's not a substack, but it's basically a substack. I've got a subscription to that, so I want |
| 1:36.3 | to go through some of the stuff. He's said, Tony Pauline, et cetera, et cetera, the guys who |
| 1:40.9 | got their ear to the ground on some of this stuff. |
| 1:47.5 | Also make sure to check out NFL draftgrades.com. |
| 1:54.3 | One of the updates that I made thanks to a request, which I think is a good, |
| 1:56.0 | I knew it was a problem from the start. |
| 1:57.2 | I just haven't addressed it. |
| 1:59.9 | So it was a nice nudge in the right direction. |
| 2:02.2 | But now you're able to go to the site, |
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