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Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Re-ranking USCfootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans for 2025

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 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 a post-fall camp re-rank of USCfootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans' list. For the last six seasons, the USCfootball.com staff has counted down the Top 30 Most Important Trojans in a series of offseason articles leading up to the kickoff of fall camp. Each year under Lincoln Riley, the USC roster has seen significant turnover each year making it a bit of a guessing game trying to figure out who is going to play and how valuable they are going to be toward the team's success, so we've incorporated a re-rank when the Trojans' football team makes the transition from fall camp to game preparation in the week leading up to the season opener. Each USCfootball.com staff member submits his own list of whom he/she 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 re-rankings discussion as we sift, sort and come up with the final preseason rankings. The re-rank includes several risers on the defensive side of the ball, including offensive linemen Tobias Raymond and Justin Tauanuu, as well as players whose importance declined whether through an inability to lock up a starting role or the emergence of other players. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome into another edition of, I guess technically the Parastyle podcast, but this is a Helium Boys production.

0:25.0

So we'll figure it out along the way.

0:26.9

What's the actual name is here?

0:29.1

What do you got to say, Chris?

0:31.2

Our record label is Parashtal Podcast, but this is our album is what I'd like to say. That's my co-host. That's my co-host, Chris Trevino. I am also a co-host here, Shotgun Spratling. We are the Healing and Boys. This is the Healing Boys production. We are going to be, this is a special edition podcast. We're going to be re-ranking going through our re-rankings of our top 30

0:56.0

most important players. Chris is going shirtless for this. He is amped up for re-ranking the Trojans,

1:03.0

the 30 most important Trojans this season. Not to not to spoil anything, but we literally just

1:08.6

did a Helium Boys week one podcast for over an hour,

1:11.9

and it is hot in my room, and there's been a heat wave in California, and it's just the tail end

1:18.2

of it, but my room feels like a sauna right now. And this is a tightly contested top 30, 35,

1:25.7

whatever you want to call it. So I think it's going to get a little hotter in this room shotgun.

1:29.0

It's true.

1:29.3

This debate.

1:29.8

So I just want to cool myself down a little bit.

1:31.8

I don't got no water. I'm just trying to fight for my guys here on this list. All right. I mean, we've had some backlash. We've had some, you know, Connor Morcett throwing some jabs out there

1:42.7

over on the Parasol podcast podcast about how he didn't

1:47.6

know how some of the guys we were ranking were up there how could jade my he's the quarterback he's got to be

1:52.7

number one right no that's not the way it goes here because this is different the most important

1:58.9

is not just about how good you are. Who's the best player?

2:02.6

Who's going to be drafted the highest? No, that's not this list. Um, who's going to put up the best

2:07.3

stats? No, that's not this list. This list is who's the most important to the success of the Trojans.

2:14.5

Now you'd say, oh, of course the quarterback is, right? No, we factor in

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