Helium Boys Podcast: DJ Wingfield loses lawsuit, OL fallout and Over/Unders for 2025 season
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino are back behind the microphones for another edition of the Helium Boys Podcast to discuss the breaking news from Monday: USC offensive lineman DJ Wingfield lost his lawsuit against the NCAA and cannot suit up this season.
Wingfield's loss is a significant blow for USC as the Redondo Beach (Calif.) Redondo Union grad was projected to be the starting left guard this fall. The Trojans will now likely turn to either Tobias Raymond or Micah Banuelos -- two players with one combined start between them in their college careers -- to fill the position.
It's no surprise that both hosts spend their 'Two-Minute Drill' on the Wingfield situation and where USC goes from here as an offensive line. Chris and Shotgun spend the first half of the show breaking down some of the ongoing battles and big question marks up front.
The Helium Boys then dive into the second half of the show with Shotgun taking on the second annual Over/Under challenge from Chris. They look over how Shotgun did from 2024 before looking at potential numbers for this fall.
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TIME STAMPS
0:00 Kicking off the Helium Boys Pod
4:40 Two-Minute Drill
9:29 Engaging with Fans
12:12 Unpacking the DJ Wingfield Ruling
28:28 Navigating the Offensive Line Post-Wingfield
57:09 Kicking Off Over/Under: Fan Submissions
1:09:44 Shotgun's O/U 2024 Report Card
1:24:00 Forecasting the Future: 2025 Offensive O/U
1:43:50 Defensive Outlook: 2025 O/U
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Helium Boys, a serious, non-serious U.S.C. podcast. I am your not well-lit host, Chris Trevino, and I am joined by my fellow |
| 0:24.0 | helium boy, an official helium boy, and my partner on this podcast. Shotgun Spratling. Shotgun, |
| 0:30.5 | how are you doing? And two, what hat are we rocking today? Looks a little camo. |
| 0:36.5 | I got a perspective. Visual camo, Long Beach State hat, |
| 0:39.9 | the dirt bags. |
| 0:42.0 | Oh, he'll be. |
| 0:43.1 | Just trying to make you feel at home, Chris, |
| 0:45.1 | with a little Long Beach, |
| 0:46.5 | a love on here. |
| 0:48.0 | But yeah, it's a late night here, |
| 0:49.8 | but ready to go. |
| 0:51.2 | What constitutes you picking a hat? Is it just all vibes? Is it off the fit? |
| 1:00.3 | Do you ever switch in the middle of the day? Or is it like you pick the hat and that's your hat for |
| 1:05.6 | the day? You can't, no swaps. That's not necessarily the case. It's just, you know, I don't, |
| 1:10.0 | honestly, I don't even wear a hat around the house that often, but, you know. What? Everyone just went, what? Yeah. No one believes you. It's true. I think you sleep with one on. Doesn't actually happen. And I do have hair under here. It's just a very gray nowadays. because I'm becoming an old man. So, I don't know, people tell me I can't wear a backwards hat anymore. |
| 1:30.3 | But, you know, that just makes me want to wear it. It's just very gray nowadays because I'm becoming an old man. |
| 1:27.7 | So, I don't know, people tell me I can't wear a backwards hat anymore. |
| 1:30.3 | But, you know, that just makes me want to wear more because I'm anti-everyone telling me what to do. |
| 1:36.1 | But, yeah, it's just whatever the fit is normally, you know, whatever clothes that are picked out. |
| 1:42.3 | Sometimes my roommate's kid will pick out my socks and I'll go from there, you know, |
| 1:45.9 | pick out the rest of the outfit from the socks that they pick. |
| 1:49.8 | Roommates kid, a classic shotgunism. |
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