Winners and Losers From the NFL Combine! NFL Draft Podcast EP. 14

Dynasty Nerds Podcast | Dynasty Fantasy Football

Rich Dotson

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jagger May and Andrew Mott are back with a post-Combine check-in on who helped themselves and who created new concerns. Their main point is consistent throughout the episode: testing is not the whole evaluation, but bad numbers and bad interview moments can matter a lot more than a great 40. At running back, the conversation keeps coming back to how thin the class feels behind Jeremiyah Love. Mike Washington Jr. is the testing standout they spend the most time on, while Emmett Johnson is the most disappointing result, turning “interesting traits” into a much tougher projection based on how the numbers landed. At quarterback, they treat Ty Simpson and Garrett Nussmeier as winners mostly because they did what they needed to do on the field and in interviews. On the other side, Diego Pavia is the clear cautionary tale of how quickly interviews can tank confidence. At wide receiver, the biggest storyline is Makai Lemon, where the discussion is less about tape and more about the Combine week optics. They also note that some players did not test, which naturally creates skepticism until pro days. Start Using the Film Room Today! FFPC: New Users: Use promo code NERDS for $25 off your first FFPC Orphan Team! 00:00:00 Start 00:07:19 WR Winners and Losers 00:18:04 QB Winners and Losers 00:28:16 RB Winners and Losers 00:34:35 EDGE Winners and Losers 00:41:06 Offensive Linemen Winners and Losers 00:45:47 TE Winners and Losers 00:51:37 Conspiracy Theory Time 00:53:48 IDL Winners and Losers 00:55:05 LB Winners and Losers 00:56:51 DB Winners and Losers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Draft Nerds. As always, it's me, Jagger Man, and that is Andrew Mott.
0:05.8	And I just came back from the Combine. You just got done watching, and we have risers and fallers.
0:13.3	Them Stiles brothers, Sonny and Lorenzo Stiles.
0:17.8	Sunny Stiles basically had a perfect RAS score relative athletic score for you with
0:23.9	questions on there 446 40 43 and a half vertical 11 11 inch broad jump or
0:31.8	excuse me 11 foot two inch broad jump his shuttle time for 4.2 seconds.
0:38.3	I mean, everything is what you want.
0:40.3	I will say I don't want to double count Sunny Stiles.
0:43.3	I told you in the group chat is that we knew he was athletic.
0:47.3	We knew all these things here.
0:49.3	There are still some holes in his game, but the upside is there.
0:52.3	And then there's Lorenzo Stiles. He was on no one's
0:55.9	top 100 list up until now. That might change and it might be a go back to the tape type thing.
1:01.8	I got to ask you, does this matter to you? How significant is this to you? And I know like the
1:08.2	defense isn't your thing as much. So I'm kind of asking as a whole on how
1:12.6	you consider athletic testing. It doesn't even matter that it's just these two defensive guys.
1:17.3	But wide receiver quarterback, it's pretty much useless. Shout out to Anthony Richardson. So.
1:23.7	Yeah. And maybe a guy like Talen Green who might be a little bit useless to know how fast he is.
1:28.8	But I think for me, it's really like if I had to give it a percentage of how much do I care about combine testing numbers, I think I care more about negative combine testing numbers than I do positive.
1:41.3	I think in general, it's less than 10% for me from their entire scouting profile.
1:46.1	Like, it's really just not that big of an issue for me. I think for a guy like Sunny Stiles,
1:51.1	like you said, we knew he was athletic. I still have questions. And you know, you talked about
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