Trojans depth on display as spring football kicks off
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this edition of the Peristyle Podcast hosts Ryan Abraham, RJ Abeytia and intern India Otto are back in studio breaking down the what they saw and heard from the first two days of USC spring football practice. On Tuesday morning head coach Lincoln Riley and company were back out on Howard Jones Field for their first spring workout of 2026, showing off some impressive depth with the addition of 32 incoming freshman that made up the No. 1 ranked high school recruiting class in the nation. Each position group had higher numbers that we typically see during spring workouts, giving this coaching staff a lot of opportunities to see what they have as they prepare for the 2026 college football season.
The crew was at practice on Tuesday and Wednesday and they discuss what stood out to them, from the footwork and quick release of true freshman quarterback Jonas Williams, to the versatility of offensive lineman Tobias Raymond to the different feel at practice now that Gary Patterson is running the defense. They also share what Riley and the players that were made available to the media had to say, talking about these first days of spring with plenty of new faces wearing the cardinal and gold.
They also talk about how the former Trojan football players performed at the NFL Combine, with Ja'Kobi Lane running an impressive 40-yard dash, Lake McRee putting on a show in the weight room and Makai Lemon showing his skills in the gauntlet.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Trojan fans, it's time to get into the huddle with the Parastile podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | Since 2008, the Parasstyle podcast has been your ticket for year-round coverage of the USC football program. |
| 0:20.0 | With multiple shows per week in a wide range of experts, |
| 0:24.1 | no one covers the Trojans like the Peristyle podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | And now, here's the host of the Paristyle podcast, |
| 0:32.1 | USCFootball.com publisher, Brian Abraham. |
| 0:37.3 | Oh, Trojan fans. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Parasol podcast. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm your host, Ryan Abraham, joined alongside Mr. RJ Abadia. |
| 0:51.6 | No Connor Mort's there. |
| 0:52.2 | We'll get that a second. |
| 0:53.1 | And we got Automatic Indi Auto sitting there in the director's so. We'll get that a second. And we got automatic India Auto sitting |
| 0:55.1 | there in the director's chair. We got a fun show for you today. Two days of USC |
| 1:00.1 | Spring Football in the books. We're going to recap everything we saw out there and everything we |
| 1:04.4 | heard from the players and coaches. Talk a little bit of the NFL Combine. And all three of us |
| 1:10.3 | were there at the last two practices. So we want to share like our insights. It's a little bit of the NFL combine and all three of us were there at the last two practices so |
| 1:12.2 | we want to share like our insights it's a little different format this year because they're |
| 1:16.8 | putting more in we had two like not two days but back-to-back days for the first time i can ever |
| 1:21.5 | remember u s spring football it's always been like Tuesday Thursday Saturday like forever |
| 1:25.9 | it didn't matter who the coach was I think all the way back back to Pete Carroll. And Gary Patterson comes in. They're mixing it up a little bit. I like it. I like the format. So we got to see a couple practices today. But I welcome in our guests. You might have seen RJ Abedia on the last couple instant analysis. Analysees. Is that how we'd say? There you go. Is that Yeah. Okay. What's up, RJ? How you doing? I'm doing great. I don't remember the first, the last time I was here in the gorgeous studio, but I'm glad to see you've kept it up, kept the vibes going. Still here? Yeah. I don't think there's anything major we got here. We got the big Coliseum curtain. |
| 2:01.6 | Is that new or? No, that's been there. That's our backdrop. You came in, we interviewed Jen Cohen a couple years ago. You came in for that. And I'm sure you've come in for some podcasts. We've done this a few times. We should definitely get Jen Cohen on again, though. No, there's no shortage of questions for her. |
| 2:18.2 | We got to get her back in India's here. |
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