Ranking USCFootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans of 2025, 1-10

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino come together for the final installment of a three-part special behind-the-scenes series of the Helium Boys Podcast. The Helium Boys work through the process of compiling and debating the top 10 spots for the initial summer ranking of USCFootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans' list for the 2025 season. For the sixth year in a row, the USCFootball.com staff is counting down the Top 30 Most Important Trojans in a series of offseason articles leading up to the kickoff of fall camp. The series is based off our staff's guesses on the development of returners as well as the value of newcomers as the Trojans' roster comes together after another offseason of turnover under head coach Lincoln Riley. Each USCFootball.com staff member submits his own list of whom he believes will be the most important Trojans. Considerations for the rankings take in a wide range of factors including positional depth, 2024 stats, overall talent, departures from the previous season, projected development and expectations. The only guidance we try to follow is that the most important factor for placement is if this particular player was lost for the season, how detrimental would it be to the team and the overall success of the season. The individual lists are submitted and compiled before Shotgun and Chris come together to sift through the information, debate and assemble the official USCFootball.com rankings. In this podcast, the Helium Boys give you a peek behind the curtain, allowing you to listen in on the final third of the rankings discussion as they debate and settle on the initial summer preseason rankings for the top 10, including a spirited back and forth on the top three spots and who should be the No. 1 Most Important Trojan for 2025. Please review, rate and subscribe to the Peristyle Podcast on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠! Make sure you check out ⁠USCFootball.com⁠ for complete coverage of this USC Trojans basketball and football teams. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.0	Welcome in to the Welcome into the final installment of the top 30 most important Trojans.
1:24.7	We are breaking down and debating who is going to make the top 10.
1:29.8	We've gone through 11 through 20 last time. We went through 21 through 30 in the first episode. This is the third installment, the final installment as we get to the guys
1:35.5	of the top of the list. These are the 10 players we think will have the biggest impact on USC season.
1:42.2	If these guys go down this season, as we always say,
1:45.3	our most important list is based on if this guy goes down, this guy leaves the team,
1:50.0	if this guy is abducted by aliens, how big of an impact will it have on the team? And that's
1:55.4	going to factor in, is his backup any good? Are the guys around him any good? Are there a bunch
2:00.8	of receivers?
2:01.8	Or just one big receiver that they need to have big impact from?
2:05.3	How are the other weapons around them?
2:07.4	Who can fill in to fill that void if this person goes down?
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