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Stay Hot: A Sports Podcast

Reviewing the 2026 Linebacker Class

Stay Hot: A Sports Podcast

Blue Wire

Sports, Football

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Join Matt, Blaiden, and Theo as they breakdown and rank their top linebackers from the 2026 NFL Draft on today’s episode of Stay Hot.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, Hotties?

0:10.3

Welcome back to another episode of Stay Hot.

0:13.2

I'm Blading Kirk, joined as always by my two favorite co-hosts of all-time Matthew Spinehauer and Theo Ash.

0:17.2

Today, we're continuing our coverage of the upcoming NFL draft, taking a look at our top linebackers in this year's class.

0:25.9

But before we get into it, Matt, Theo, on this beautiful Sunday evening,

0:30.0

how are you guys doing?

0:33.3

I'm doing quite well.

0:35.0

I'm doing quite well.

0:37.3

I've got a debate that has occupied a lot of space in my brain over the last 24 hours. I feel like Bill Simmons question about what NBA player was like the best, well, never being considered the best player in the league is like the perfect

0:55.7

sports question like it's just enough about real players and it's also just poorly worded

1:02.9

enough that you can have the the definition debate while also having the player debate it's like

1:08.5

literally the perfect the perfect he was in the lab when he made that.

1:13.8

That's like the perfect sports question for like,

1:16.0

it's because what he's saying and what the other person are saying are two entirely different things.

1:22.3

And they're not really debating about like who the player was specifically.

1:26.9

But like Bill Simmons can sit there and say, well,

1:30.1

you know, Curry was a unanimous MVP or whatever, but then, you know, he lost in the finals

1:35.8

to LeBron and LeBron had that great run.

1:38.2

So a lot of people still considered LeBron the best player in the world at that point.

1:42.1

Of course, like, who is ever even unanimously considered the best player of the world?

1:46.1

You can get a pretty heavy consensus, but anything after 80% is pretty difficult.

1:51.3

You know, so then it's like, no, like, you don't understand how good Curry was in 2016

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