NFL Combine Recap: The Workout Warriors, Risers, and Lessons from Indy
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The 2026 NFL scouting combine is in the books, and I'll be honest. I learned a whole hell of a lot more than I expected to. Just 52 days until the NFL draft. Bench, you good? I'm good, man. All right, roll that beat, Tuck. Here we go you all caught up |
| 0:43.4 | am i all caught up i don't know about that i'm trying to catch up get any rest uh a little bit |
| 0:52.2 | i mean you weren't feeling great last week you You don't, you're hanging in there? |
| 0:55.9 | I'm trying. I mean, I don't know. I don't think anyone wants to hear about my chest cold. I think they can hear it in, you know, in the audio. I do get a lot of comments on X about how I've got a smoker's cough. I don't know what that's about. I mean, lay off guys. don't kick a guy while he's down. |
| 1:12.9 | I mean, you fought through. |
| 1:14.2 | I wouldn't know what that's about. I mean, lay off guys. Don't kick a guy while he's down. I mean, you fought through. I wouldn't say like admirably, but you fought through it. I think it was very admirably. I think it was great how. You and I have very different opinions on what admirably is, but you fought through. I'm joking. All right. It's in the books, man. |
| 1:28.1 | Yesterday was wild. |
| 1:29.1 | We'll get to the offensive line in a little bit. |
| 1:30.7 | I've learned a lot this year. |
| 1:33.1 | I learned this year's group and people, you know, conspiracy theorists are coming out and the track was faster. |
| 1:39.2 | The electronic times were cooked. |
| 1:43.3 | You know, they... Saw that coming. |
| 1:45.3 | Of course we did. |
| 1:46.7 | And you know what? |
| 1:48.1 | Maybe they were slightly faster. |
| 1:50.2 | But here's the thing I always go to. |
| 1:52.3 | As you read all these conspiracy theories. |
| 1:55.3 | If the jumps match up with the times, where's the problem? |
| 2:01.4 | So this would have... This would have to be like some deep state stuff where they like |
| 2:06.0 | actually matched up the 40s and the broad jumps, which are indicators, typically the 40, |
| 2:11.9 | I mean, the vertical jump more so than the broad, but they would have to have really worked hard to get these times to a point where people were, you know, where it was newsworthy and all that. Here's the thing. There were some guys that didn't run well and a lot of guys ran well and a lot of guys didn't run because I don't think that they thought they could put up times. And you know what? If you did run this year at the Combine, you were, you know, you, you benefited from it. So if I asked you |
| 2:41.0 | this, Mitch, we spent what, seven days in Indianapolis, talked to a lot of people, sat down with |
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