The Jets-Titans trade, the Malik Willis market, and the rest of the news from combine week
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We wrap up our week at the combine with a look at the biggest actual news that happened while the entire NFL world was in Indianapolis. Robert Mays, Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen dig into the Jermaine Johnson/T'Vondre Sweat trade, the Malik Willis market, the rest of the QB carousel, the shifting sands at wide receiver, and plenty more on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Robert May is our last day in Indianapolis. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm driving home in like two hours. |
| 0:10.8 | Great week. |
| 0:11.7 | I love the combine. |
| 0:14.0 | I love the combine. |
| 0:15.6 | This is, I think, my 15th or 16th one, you know, spent four days here just visiting with other writers, |
| 0:23.2 | you know, people from other media companies, friends, coaches, personnel people. |
| 0:27.3 | It's unlike anything else in the NFL. |
| 0:29.5 | Obviously, the Super Bowl is the Super Bowl, but the Super Bowl is a massive sprawling event |
| 0:34.6 | where not the entire league is there. |
| 0:36.8 | I was talking to a coach yesterday at the Starbucks and the JW, which is the nerve center of this entire thing where Mike Sando just holds court for an entire week. And he was just saying, like, this is our convention. Like, this is the opportunity for everybody in our business to get together and just kind of chat, shoot the shit, learn stuff. And that's exactly what the week in India is every single year. |
| 0:54.2 | And so excited to go home and see my wife, but also sad to be leaving this because I really do enjoy it. |
| 1:00.0 | We wrapped up our combine week here on the athletic football show in the same way we have for each of the last couple of years. |
| 1:06.0 | Obviously, there's a lot of news nuggets that are going to come out that have nothing to do with the draft. |
| 1:10.6 | Who's getting cut? |
| 1:11.4 | Who's not? |
| 1:12.0 | Who's getting franchise tag? |
| 1:13.1 | What does the quarterback carousel look like? |
| 1:14.7 | What does the early kind of scuttlebut about player movement sound like? |
| 1:18.5 | That's what we did today. |
| 1:19.8 | Me, Dave, Derek, digging into all of the news that was from the NFL Combine in |
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