Ranking EVERY NFL Team Not In The Playoffs + 2026 NFL Mock Draft For EVERY Top-10 Pick
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Mike Renner and JP Acosta recap the Monday Night Football matchup between the Dolphins and Steelers. They also reveal their NFL Tiers List for teams in turnaround mode, break down film from Week 15 and go through Mike’s latest Mock Draft!
(00:00) Intro
(00:42) MNF Recap
(7:14) NFL Tiers List
(26:38) Justin Herbert MVP?
(29:59) NFL Needs Most Improved Player
(33:33) Will Ravens-Steelers Rematch Matter?
(36:09) Debating 3rd Wild Card Value
(41:41) Fernando Mendoza No. 1 In 2026 Draft?
(45:38) Arch Manning No. 1 In 2027 Draft?
(52:18) Film Breakdown
(1:01:16) NFL Mock Draft
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| 0:46.0 | Welcome in to this Tuesday edition of Pushing the Pile, |
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| 0:51.0 | Make Every Moment More. |
| 0:53.1 | We're going to be going through a little Monday night football takeaways after that |
| 0:56.8 | brilliant Steelers win over the Miami Dolphins. |
| 0:59.9 | We're going to do tiers a little bit differently this time. |
| 1:03.2 | We're going to go to the non-playoff team. |
| 1:05.2 | It's going to do the turnaround tiers. |
| 1:07.0 | Who is the closest to getting back into the mix after this season? |
| 1:12.1 | We're going to do our pond further review where we go through some storylines and say if they stand, if they're confirmed, or if they should be overturned. |
| 1:19.8 | We got JP's playbook and then a mock draft at the back end of the show. |
| 1:25.2 | You guys are going to want to tune in for that. |
| 1:27.3 | But let's start with one one-in--ep-ball, JP, where the Steelers win, 28 to 15, extend their lead in the division, move to 8 and 6. |
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