Teams Skipping the Combine? + Will Rodgers and Kelce play in 2026?

The Adam Schefter Podcast

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4.2 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Adam Schefter and ESPN's Dan Stanczyk discuss why some team decision makers are skipping the scouting combine, which players may get tagged, a free agent set to cash in, the running back market, and what the future looks like for Aaron Rodgers, Travis Kelce, and Tyreek Hill. 0:00 Welcome 2:25 Why more and more teams are skipping the combine 9:29 Players who may be placed on the franchise or transition tag 14:02 A free agent poised to cash in this March 16:47 Is the running back market back? 19:32 Will Rodgers play this season? Kelce? 23:46 How much interest will there be in Tyreek Hill? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.2	A hour before he died, he was on the phone arguing with somebody.
0:21.3	This might be a hit.
0:22.8	You want the truth.
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0:24.6	In place him to arrest.
0:26.5	We had a killer amongst us.
0:28.2	Murder at the U.
0:29.0	Listen now.
0:34.1	Welcome back to the Adam Schaefter podcast, as it is Combine Week in Indianapolis.
0:40.2	And that is the unofficial start of what is always a very busy NFL offseason.
0:48.0	It used to be that people would say, what do you do in the off season?
0:51.5	And the regular season actually is the off season. And the off season is
0:55.9	actually a form of the regular season. And the two seasons are nonstop activity. So there is no
1:02.6	off season other than really in June and the early part of July. So this now is the unofficial
1:09.4	start of the off season or the regular season or however you
1:13.5	want to refer to the NFL world of nonstop drama. And with Ty Schmidt off again this week to help
1:21.8	us break it down, we bring in my friend, my great producer, Dan Stanzig, for this week's weekly six-pack. Thank you, as always, Chefty. And I think I told you this last time, it's Adam Schaeffer's season, baby. Like, it's news and information, it's transactions, it's who's going where, when are they going, how much are they making? It is, it's your time. It's your time to shine. You know what? It was interesting because yesterday I was on the phone with one of our producers, Drew Gallagher,
1:47.6	going over the offseason.
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