Ranking USCFootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans of 2025, 21-30

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino are back together for a special behind-the-scenes edition of the Helium Boys Podcast. The Helium Boys work through the process of compiling and debating spots No. 21 through 30 as well as the First Five Out 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 first third of the rankings discussion as they debate and settle on the initial summer preseason rankings for No. 21 through No. 30 and the First Five Out (31-35). 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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0:00.0	Welcome into another episode of the Helium Boys podcast, or at least, a podcast presented by the Helium Boys as we enter the summer
0:23.8	as that means it's time for our top 30 most important Trojans, a ranking we do every year that
0:30.3	we've done every year since COVID hit. So we go through the top 30 most important Trojans,
0:34.7	as we always say, it is not just who's going to produce the most stats
0:39.0	It's about who if this person was lost would be the biggest blow to USC so that therefore it factors in
0:46.5	What does the backup behind them look like? What are the surrounding pieces on the offensive line?
0:51.3	Beside this offense alignment matter who are the other pieces around them
0:54.7	those things all matter too so it lends to some greater variance as we describe who is our most
1:01.0	important trojans i am your host shotgun spiling alongside my fellow helium boy christ travino
1:05.9	we are the ones that compile the list after taking in the rest of the uscfutball.com staff's opinions.
1:13.4	We take everyone's votes and then we break it down.
1:16.4	We figure out the stats on, you know, what is the actual total points that everyone has,
1:20.0	how many votes is everybody has, what's the average positioning?
1:22.9	We factor all these things in.
1:24.3	And then Chris and I are the final arbiters.
1:29.7	We decide who actually gets what place and whether we trust our uh whether we trust our opinions more than we trust our
1:35.7	fellow staff members we have to figure that all out and weigh that as we go but we debate it all
1:41.3	so I now have to bring in my co-host, Chris Trevino.
1:44.7	Chris is on the East Coast with me as we start to record this.
1:48.0	This will be a three-part series as we do each year.
1:51.1	We will go through the bottom 10 in this episode.
1:54.9	Later, we'll have the 11 through 20.
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