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podcast i'm dan schneier joined so it's my host nick falado and today we're here to talk about

my favorite prospect in the 2026 NFL draft us i am so excited to talk about this player this is the

draft profile i've most been looking forward to this is the one that i can't wait to get into the why. The why of why this player is my number one player on the board for the Giants, why I, if I was in NFL GM, Nick, would take this player at number two overall in this draft class if push came to shove and I was on the board and I had to make a decision. The clock was running out. This would be my pick. So I'm excited to get into why this player is Sunny Stiles, the inside linebacker converted safety from Ohio State Buckeyes. Nick, I want to start by asking you, when you first started watching Sunny Stiles, Dave, what was the game that jumped out most of you? The game. I mean, there's one that defines his draft. All right. you just go with that because i don't have the game on jumped out most of you the game um to me there's one that defines his

right you just go with that because i don't have the game off top of my head i have a bunch of notes

and the evaluation the biggest game of the season for me at least the big 10 championship game against

indiana the number one team in the nation that game was one of the most dominant games on tape

that i saw by any player that i've evaluated so far on the trackback.

So much so that I went back and watched that game last night.

I'm going to share with you some of the takeaways I had. So I wrote down all the notes from the plays. The way that what made me so excited, there's so much you can like about the idea of Sunny

Stiles, Nick, the idea of putting a 6'4, 245 pound run and chase player at the second level,

the Giants defense. can like about the idea of sunny styles nick the idea of putting a six foot four two hundred

forty five pound run in chase player at the second level the giant's defense that to me is just

it offers such a different level just from a pure football physicality everything standpoint

it offers such a different level of upside to me than no no offense but just like putting a

five foot 11 200 pound caleb downs on a defense just thinking about it from that standpoint right like if you're playing you're on offense you're on defense and you got a six foot four 245 pound guy with that kind of speed and in my mind physicality and we'll get into some of that too because people have asked about that and i've got i've got receipts i've got clips I've got plays that I've watched where he is physical as a mother. You know what. To your defense, to run and chase at the second level, it just offers such a different level of upside for me. But in that game, what I like most is Indiana had a game plan. They were running zone. They were running outside as well with outside zone, inside zone, and power gap. And his run fits in that game were just like chef's kiss.

It was just you could clearly tell that this guy had studied for this offense,

understood what Indiana wanted to do in the run game, and just knew where to be in every

single run fit, no matter where he was aligned pre he snaps on these nows, no matter where

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