The Intel With Greg Cosell: Caleb Downs, Hybrid DBs Highlight NFL Draft Safety Class
Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast
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4.6 • 910 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Cosell gives his comprehensive tape breakdown of NFL Draft S prospects, including Caleb Downs, Dillion Thieneman, Emmanuel McNeil-Warren and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to the Intel with Greg Kosell on Inside the Birds. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Jeff Mosher with Adam Kaplan. |
| 0:14.0 | And to finish it off, we've got Greg Kosell to look at NFL draft prospect |
| 0:19.1 | safeties. |
| 0:20.6 | This is the last position. |
| 0:22.6 | We have done every single position group. |
| 0:25.2 | Coincidentally, it might be the position the Eagles need most because they currently don't have a starting safety next to Andrew McCuba. |
| 0:32.7 | But a lot of NFL teams need safeties. |
| 0:34.7 | And as we've talked about, about Greg in our discussions with corners, |
| 0:37.8 | you're seeing more positionless or multi-positional players in the backfield who can play |
| 0:43.2 | both outside corner nickel and safety. Yeah, and it obviously depends on your scheme. |
| 0:49.7 | You know, look, everybody's going to say, well, you know, Mike McDonald, you know, we want to structure our defense like that. Well, that's great if you have Nick Em and Worry because there's not going to be, you know, it's 30 Nick Mn Mnourries. So, you know, that stuff's always easy to say. We hear that every year, obviously, after teams win a Super Bowl or a team has a great defense, you know. So we'll see. |
| 1:11.5 | But safety, and we've discussed this, |
| 1:13.7 | safety is a far more important position in today's NFL |
| 1:16.3 | than I think people thought it was a number of years ago. |
| 1:19.5 | So it's hard to play with the way the game has evolved on offense |
| 1:24.5 | if you don't have good safeties. |
| 1:26.3 | It's just hard. |
| 1:27.5 | Yeah, and this group, right, Adam, I mean, you look, once you get past the first, on offense if you don't have good safeties. It's just hard. Yeah. |
| 1:27.7 | And this group, right, Adam, I mean, you look, once you get past the first four or five, I don't know if this is the stronger. I mean, Greg, you can tell it. But I don't know, I don't know how many guys you're going to be seeing going on day two and early day three based on merit, you know? Yeah, and that's why on the other the the previous show in the |
| 1:45.1 | cornerback show we talked about a couple guys who might be playing safety at the next level |
| 1:48.3 | county scott was one of them yeah it's just it maybe stokes maybe trading stokes is |
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