Helium Boys Podcast: Previewing USC's offense for 2026 spring camp
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino return to the microphones with a little twist to their typical format as they take on previews for USC's upcoming 2026 spring camp, which begins on Tuesday. Part 1 takes on the offense.
That doesn't stop them doing their traditional opening the Two-Minute Drill. Chris uses his Two-Minute Drill to fire back at some of the NFL Twitter criticisms of USC wide receiver Makai Lemon during his media interviews. Shotgun uses his TMD to shine some light on No. 25 USC Baseball, which improved to 11-0 on the season with an 8-6 win over Cal Poly.
The boys of Helium then jump into the spring preview in the following order: quarterbacks, running back, tight ends, wide receivers, offensive line and kickers.
USC has potentially another high-powered offense coming back with starting QB Jayden Maiava, five returning starters on the offensive line and two of the best Big Ten running backs in King Miller and Waymond Jordan. The offense will be looking to replace its top two wide receivers and tight ends, including Biletnikoff Award winner Lemon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Helium Boys podcast, a serious, non-serious U.S.E podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | I am your host this week, Chris Trevino, |
| 0:22.5 | joined by the one and only shotgun |
| 0:24.1 | spratling, rocking a |
| 0:26.6 | elite level |
| 0:27.8 | snuggy? Oh yeah, |
| 0:30.5 | big, big blanket hoodie. |
| 0:32.4 | It's not in technically a snuggy, but |
| 0:33.8 | big blanket hoodie. It's cold up here. |
| 0:36.2 | I don't like it. Yeah. |
| 0:54.4 | It's a little warm out here, so we're kind of yinging and yanging right now, shotgun. But we don't have much time to chit-chat because this is a special announcement. This is a preview podcast. So the format is going to be a little bit different. I'm running the show. So we're going to go with some pace because I don't want this to be a two hour and 30 minute podcast. No shade, Shaka, no shade. I'm on |
| 1:01.5 | some very long podcast, but people want to know just the basics going to spring camp because it |
| 1:07.1 | opens this week on Tuesday, officially. |
| 1:12.5 | They're going to be going three days. |
| 1:17.2 | At least we can watch three days, but we'll be on campus for three days of practice, |
| 1:19.3 | get a little bit of a 15-minute warm-ups. |
| 1:20.1 | You know the drill. |
| 1:21.9 | Shacken will be out there at some point. |
| 1:23.1 | Very excited about that. |
| 1:28.9 | But we're going to start with the offensive side of the ball for this preview podcast, but we're going to handle our business normally at the start of this and then get right to it. So with that |
| 1:34.8 | shotgun, you know what time it is. Are you ready for your two-minute drill? Of course. |
| 1:41.4 | He said so convincingly. All right, shotgun. |
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