Way-Too-Early NFL Power Tier Rankings + 2025 NFL Re-Draft For EVERY 1st-Round Pick!
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta give their way-too-early NFL Tiers for next season following Super Bowl LX! The guys also do a re-draft for the entire 1st Round of the 2025 NFL Draft.
(00:00) Intro
(2:08) NFL Power Tiers
(34:05) Re-Draft Picks 1-16
(54:25) Re-Draft Picks 17-32
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome into this Tuesday edition of pushing the pile. |
| 0:17.9 | Mike Brenner, J.P. Acosta. It's the offseason, JP. |
| 0:21.9 | Do, are you, how do you feel after the season? Are you sad? There's no football. We're going to be six months now. No one's putting on the pads anymore. No prospects are putting on the pads. No NFL players are putting on the pads. Or is it kind of a relief or is it exciting and looking forward to the draft. I'm excited. It's draft season now. It's the most wonderful time of the year. |
| 0:40.6 | You know, I sort of felt like during the season, I'm really focused on the NFL, but now I can really dig into the draft, dig into more prospects. And I'm really, I'm honestly really excited. This class is definitely different than what we thought it would be at the beginning of the |
| 0:54.5 | year, but that makes it really fun. So I'm excited to see where it goes. I call this draft, |
| 0:59.9 | and I'm right there with you. I call it an evaluator's draft. It is going to be one where |
| 1:07.9 | you're going to have to earn your money. You're going to have to earn your money if you're a GM, if you're a scout, |
| 1:12.6 | because anyone can tell you that, you know, Trevor Lawrence is a great prospect. |
| 1:19.7 | Anyone can tell you that, you know, Penny Sewell is the only prospect. |
| 1:23.5 | You go back to 2021, 2024. |
| 1:25.5 | I think those drafts, you could have just thrown a dart and you're going to hit an all-pro. |
| 1:30.0 | This is not the draft for that. |
| 1:31.9 | This is not a draft where any old guy is going to end up being a pro bowler. |
| 1:36.9 | I look at some of the valuable positions this year, whether it's outside a quarterback, |
| 1:42.3 | offensive tackle, edge, wide receiver. There's no consensus top player |
| 1:47.8 | at any of those three positions right now. I think it is up for debate who the best guy is. |
| 1:52.5 | And it could be like one of three names at each position, depending on what you value. So it is |
| 1:58.1 | going to be a fun class. We're going to dig into it as we get through the offseason. |
| 2:01.2 | But today on the show, we're doing our way too early tier rankings for next season. |
| 2:07.8 | Not our power rankings, but we're tiering every team in the NFL. |
| 2:10.6 | And at the end of the show, we're going to tie a bow on this year's rookie class by doing a full 32 first round redraft from last year. |
| 2:18.9 | Very excited for that. |
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