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Now your hosts, Votch Lombardi, Nick Harris, Bobby Belt, Tommy Yarrish, and Kyle Yeoman.

Today is Thursday, February 12, 2026, and we are 70 days away from the NFL draft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, officially 10 weeks out, as we welcome you into the draft show.

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I'm Kyle Yeomens.

Glad you're with us. Welcome in everybody.

Ten weeks away. It's coming up very quickly. How quickly is it blown by even from the first show we had here, which was like 103, 104 days out?

And now we're five weeks down into the show even.

It's been pretty fast at this point. And I don't know if it's just because they have the two first round picks too that you just feel okay because usually you feel like you can center around like just a couple people like even once you do you do the initial work you feel like all right there's probably one of these three or four people that the pick will actually be now when you got two picks it's like i don't know this it can be any one of 15 people now that you got to kind of like do some

homework on some deep dive on so that's the uh i think that's what's making me feel like it's going

by quicker because i feel like i don't have enough time yeah no i'm with you i think that

things will become a lot more clear combine and after and And granted, you're getting close to the day anyway. So yeah, Tommy, that's obvious. But I think the combine is such a, thank you. I think a combine is such a big event to, it's such a big data point to where it really starts to narrow down a lot of these guys. And we've talked about on the show, some of these guys don't stack until after the combine.

I think, you know, you could say that maybe some NFL teams operate the same way in the sense of they, you know, have guys stacked.

But it's a bigger mover in terms of the numbers that come out of it.

So always intrigued by that and excited to get there in a couple weeks here.

You learn so much there too

whether it be about medicals you learn about uh character stuff you learn about who came out of

an interview process with like didn't like that answer um i mean there was uh ad mitchell i know got taken off the board of some people because of Combine interviews. And the way it was like, okay, that was the last bit of information we needed. So stuff starts crystallizing a little bit. And so that's a big help for it. And also, it's just, I think, you get the whole league in the same city for the same work. And naturally, you just start hearing chatter about things about how the league feels about people. And you're like, oh, we're really behind on that. Like, I think one of the things that felt like pretty consistently everybody had Jermad McCoy above Monsour Delane. Yeah. The more you're getting out of these All-Star games, you're starting to see national media. all of a sudden it's like delaying above McCoy, Delane above McCoy, Delane above McCoy, because I think you're probably reflecting what the league is,

is chattering,

which is Delane will go first. If we get to the Combine and Jamad, you know, medical's check out, he's running around good. If he decides to go through drills and stuff and all that kind of stuff, I do think his 2024 tape is better than Delanes. So if the knee checks out and all this kind of stuff and he's running around, flipping hips and all this kind of stuff, do you think that we'll see that change in some of these league wide mock dress? I like to ask Bobby question. You know, he's tapping in. He's a league guy. He's a league guy guy. Yeah. I love that. No, I don't think so.

Okay.

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