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Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

Ranking 65 Active Players Most Likely To Make the Hall of Fame: A Definitive Canton Tiers List

Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

CBS Sports, Football, NFL

Football, Sports

4.22.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mike Renner and Kyle Long catch up on all the news from training camp. Then in honor of the Hall of Fame Game they rank active players by how likely they are to earn that gold jacket into tiers. Who's a lock to get the call to the Hall? Find out.


Intro (0:00)

Raiders Extend Kolton Miller (1:32)

Phelps to Teach Ravens to Swim (3:51)

Not Having this Convo (8:25)

Could Go on a Run (12:24)

On Pace (22:37)

Hall of Very Good (26:54)

Door Handle Locks (38:21)

Deadbolt Locks (43:48)

Weird Cases (45:12)

1st Ballot (50:47)


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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody?

0:07.7

Welcome into today's episode of pushing the pile, Mike Redder, Kyle Long.

0:11.3

Today, with the Hall of Fame game on tap, we're back.

0:14.3

First off, we're back.

0:15.2

We have live football.

0:16.0

With the Hall of Fame game on tap, we thought we'd go through the entire NFL and say the players that we think are going to be

0:24.0

Hall of Famers. Say who deserves it, who's on pace, who might be on the outside looking in

0:29.5

the hall of very good. We're going to go through that a little later, but first off the ball segment.

0:34.0

Some news, not much news. We were just here 24 hours ago. We're back on our new schedule. Kyle, how are you adjusting to the three days a week here? Let me just say, I met a bit of a, you know, a headlock, as it were, because you get used to that offseason program. It felt like OTAs for a while. You know, you enjoy seeing your buddies.

0:55.6

It's like, God, you know what?

0:56.7

It's Monday.

0:57.7

Can't wait to see Mike.

0:59.1

It's Wednesday.

0:59.7

Can't wait to see Mike. And then they're like, you're going to see Mike again on Thursday. And I'm like, look, he's handsome and he's nice and he's knowledgeable. but I guess we're going to do some Hall of Fame game stuff.

0:53.7

But look, I want to point out something.

0:55.4

You were setting the

1:11.4

bar here for this conversation we're having about players in the NFL that we will be having.

1:18.5

This is, when people say there's guys who are locks, and then there's guys who are in the

1:24.5

conversation for Hall of Fame. This is the conversation.

1:28.1

If you always wonder where it happened, it will be shortly.

1:30.6

But obviously, we got some stuff to cover in the news here first, Mike.

1:34.9

Yeah, so the bit of news that happened in the last 24 hours, Colton Miller, left tackle for the Las Vegas Raiders.

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