Yahoo Sports’ Andrew Siciliano and NFL writers Charles Robinson and Frank Schwab discuss if safety Caleb Downs could fall out of the Top 10 in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
Check out the full conversation on \u201cInside Coverage\u201d – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> or wherever you listen.<\/a><\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n View more<\/p>\n Video Transcript<\/p>\n Wow.<\/p>\n I think there is a chance he falls out of the top 10.<\/p>\n See, Rob?<\/p>\n I’m gonna sell him falling out of the top 10 only because I think the strength of the draft is, is really helping him.<\/p>\n I agree.<\/p>\n And, and I think as you- I don’t mind anymore if I’m honest with you.<\/p>\n Easy.<\/p>\n Go ahead.<\/p>\n Yeah.<\/p>\n I don’t, I don’t I, I just think again, leaning once again on the All Juice team, and he wasn’t even on the All Juice team, but, but a lot of teams that I talked to when I said, you know, “Give me the best profile that you have off of tape.”<\/p>\n Like, let’s, let’s not talk about Oh, sorry about that.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Let’s not talk about, testing, let’s not talk about, you know, what happened at the combine.<\/p>\n Just tell me when you watch tape, give me the three or four best guys in the draft.<\/p>\n And he repeatedly popped up as a player where they’re like, “Look, he was complete at Alabama, he was complete at Ohio State.”<\/p>\n Yep.<\/p>\n “He did nothing but play in big games constantly.<\/p>\n Yeah, we get it, he’s a safety.<\/p>\n Yeah, you know, he didn’t do a- a- all the pre-draft stuff that we would’ve liked.<\/p>\n But on tape, he looks,” as Andrew, you just said, “as clean as almost any player in this draft.”<\/p>\n So it’s hard for me to believe in this particular draft seeing him slip out of the top 10.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Yeah.<\/p>\n R- by the way, real quick aside, you guys did You and Charles McDonald did a phenomenal job- Mm-hmm with the All Juice team.<\/p>\n Such a great legacy thing for Torres- Appreciate it.<\/p>\n Thank you our great friend.<\/p>\n And everybody should go read it ’cause it’s a annually one of my favorite reads every year, a must-read before the draft.<\/p>\n Just wanted to say that- Wow before we move on.<\/p>\n Now, getting to the safety thing.<\/p>\n I, I think at some point the, the worm is gonna turn on safeties.<\/p>\n The teams are gonna realize, “Okay, all these, all these offenses are messing with us with this v- versatility they have with their formations.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Now they’re going to more multiple tight ends.<\/p>\n How do we combat that?”<\/p>\n Well, it’s with a chess piece- Yeah like a Caleb Downs and- Big nickel eventually the safety If you could go back and redo the Cale- the Kyle Hamilton draft, he doesn’t go 14.<\/p>\n Right.<\/p>\n If you go back and redo the last year’s draft, even Warrick doesn’t- Brian Branch goes higher go in the second round.<\/p>\n Yep.<\/p>\n Brian Branch doesn’t go.<\/p>\n Like- Yep.<\/p>\n Those are mistakes so eventually teams are gonna say, “Hmm, maybe we’re making mistakes.”<\/p>\n I, I, I have to sell, sell, sell this because I can’t imagine a smart team like the Kansas City Chiefs lets him pass.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n if you look at the what they need in the secondary after a bad off-season- Painful off-season at that position, they have a lot of needs.<\/p>\n They do.<\/p>\n They, they need edge rusher, they need offensive line.<\/p>\n It’d be a sweet pick by the Chiefs.<\/p>\n But I’m saying, I’m say To me anyway, I think Caleb might be the best player period in this draft.<\/p>\n I If you’re just taking positional, you know, that stuff out of it, I think Caleb Downs might just be the straight up best player in the draft and I think that’s a smart organization, and they kinda need something in their defensive backfield after losing three starters in free agency.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n I think the Chiefs take I don’t think I, I just can’t imag- I guess there’s a scenario where somebody like Reese falls to nine, some weird scenario.<\/p>\n But in normal settings, I just don’t think the Chiefs pass at nine, so I gotta sell this.<\/p>\n