Positionless Defense in the NFL and Top 5 Wide Receivers Heading into the 2026 Season

About this episode

Bucky Brooks and Lance Zierlein discuss positionless defense in the NFL and reveal their top five wide receivers for the 2026 season.

Bucky Brooks and Lance Zierlein deliver another edition of Move the Sticks — and this time, they play both sides of the ball. The MTS duo opens with an evaluation of the safety position, where today's stars like Derwin James Jr. resemble early defensive game-changers such as hall of fame defensive back LeRoy Butler. Then, Bucky and Lance each deliver their updated top five wide receivers list for the 2026 NFL season. Pass catchers the likes of Ja'Marr Chase, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Puka Nacua, Justin Jefferson, CeeDee Lamb and Amon-Ra St. Brown are all discussed and debated.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Bucky Brooks

Guest: Lance Zierlein

Topics covered

• positionless defense
• safety position evaluation
• top wide receivers
• NFL 2026 season
• defensive game-changers
• pass catchers

Keywords

• NFL
• positionless defense
• wide receivers
• 2026 season
• safety evaluation
• Derwin James Jr.
• LeRoy Butler
• Ja'Marr Chase
• Justin Jefferson

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