NFL Draft preview and ranking USC football position group expectations
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
USCFootball.com - Ryan Abraham, 247Sports, USC, USC Trojans, USC football, College Football
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
In this edition of the Peristyle Podcast hosts Ryan Abraham, RJ Abeytia and intern India Otto are back in studio discussing this weekend's huge NFL Draft and the top-rated USC prospects that are hoping to hear their name called. They also take a crack at ranking each of the Trojan football position groups by level of expectations heading into the season following what we learned about the team in the spring.
Kicking things off with our draft coverage, all eyes will be on wide receiver Makai Lemon will is expected to go in the top-half of the first round, likely as the second or third wide receiver off the board. Lemon will very likely be USC's only first round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft and could be the only Trojan picks in the first two days of the draft. Safeties Kamari Ramsey and Bishop Fitzgerald, wide receiver Ja'Kobi Lane, tight end Lake McRee and linebacker Eric Gentry are other former USC players that are the most likely to get picked up in the later rounds.
They finish off the show talking about the 2026 bowl tie-ins sticking with the old conference alignment (Pac-12) and answering listener questions from our live chat, emails and The Peristyle message board.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Trojan fans, it's time to get into the huddle with the Parastile podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | Since 2008, the Parasstyle podcast has been your ticket for year-round coverage of the USC football program. |
| 0:20.4 | With multiple shows per week in a wide range of experts, |
| 0:24.1 | no one covers the Trojans like the Peristyle podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | And now, here's the host of the Paristyle podcast, |
| 0:32.1 | USCFootball.com publisher, Brian Abraham. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, Trojan fans, welcome to another edition of the Parasaw podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm your host, Ryan Abraham. |
| 0:47.4 | Some of them call me the boss man alongside RJ. |
| 0:51.3 | RJ Abadia is here. |
| 0:53.0 | We don't have a nickname for him yet. |
| 0:54.0 | We're still working on it. |
| 0:55.6 | Salancho Ranch, something like that we could do. We got Automatic India Auto. She's out in the real world now, but she still wants to come in and do the show. We're doing this live on YouTube and Facebook, but we are doing it at 7.15 p.m. on a Tuesday evening, as RJ pointed out, |
| 1:11.3 | the Lakers, the Kings, and the Dodgers are all be playing, |
| 1:13.9 | but you're going to come watch us, I'm sure. Please. No brainer. But yeah, we got to do our podcast, but India's got a real job now. So we can't really, if we want to have her on, we can't do it like during the day. So I thought, well, let's just try an evening one. So we're trying it up. So if you're watching us live on YouTube or Facebook, we appreciate that. If you have questions or comments, podcast at uscfutball.com, you can call her text us at 424-9141. We appreciate the live comments. India is putting them up on the screen now. if you have questions and you're happy to be watching us live in the chat, |
| 1:47.7 | put them up in there, and we'll get to them. |
| 1:50.1 | She can put them up on the screen, star them for later. |
| 1:53.0 | And if you have Apple or Spotify, you can leave us a five-star rating for the Parasel podcast. |
| 1:57.9 | That's awesome. |
| 1:58.4 | We love it when you do that. |
| 1:59.7 | You can also leave us reviews on Apple and comments on Spotify. We can see them easier now because we're like our are the way we upload the show is through Spotify now. So I got to log in through Spotify. So we can see your Spotify comments. So if you were listed on Spotify, leave a comment. Let us know what you think of the show. |
| 2:35.2 | What do you do? How are you doing, RJ? You're here? Like, what's going on? I'm loving it. Well, first of all, we're in prime time. So I feel like, it's like we're really stepping it up a notch here. Also, I think I speak for India as well about how excited it is to be on the intro. You're on the intro. We made the intro cut, so this is very, you know. We made it. |
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