{"id":822923,"date":"2026-03-20T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/822923\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:16:23","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-meet-the-prospect-toledo-safety-emmanuel-mcneil-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/822923\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft Meet the Prospect: Toledo safety Emmanuel McNeil-Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How he stacks up: Miller ranked McNeil-Warren as his <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/draft2026\/story\/_\/id\/47190881\/2026-nfl-draft-rankings-matt-miller-top-prospects-players-positions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">No. 20 overall prospect<\/a> and No. 3 safety available after Caleb Downs (Ohio State) and Dillon Thieneman (Oregon).<\/p>\n<p>NFL media analyst Daniel Jeremiah lists McNeil-Warren as his No. 16 overall prospect in his most recent <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/daniel-jeremiah-s-top-50-2026-nfl-draft-prospect-rankings-3-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Top 50 players<\/a> available in the class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McNeil-Warren is a tall, long safety prospect with fantastic production,&#8221; Jeremiah wrote. &#8220;He&#8217;s a fun player to study. Every game I examined was littered with big hits, plays on the ball and HIGH energy. He&#8217;s a very explosive player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall, McNeil-Warren is a bouncy, twitchy athlete with Pro Bowl potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NFL.com lead draft writer Eric Edholm has McNeil-Warren at No. 26 on his first list of the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/eric-edholm-s-top-100-nfl-draft-prospects-1-0-ranking-the-best-players-in-the-2026-class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Top 100 players<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McNeil-Warren comes in at No. 19 on ESPN&#8217;s Jordan Reid&#8217;s list of the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/draft2026\/story\/_\/id\/47027232\/2026-nfl-draft-rankings-jordan-reid-top-prospects-players-positions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Top 50 players<\/a>. Reid lists McNeil-Warren as his second-best safety in the class after Downs.<\/p>\n<p>What he had to say: &#8220;When I&#8217;m on the field, I can let all my anger out,&#8221; McNeil-Warren said at the Combine of his physical brand of football. &#8220;I just leave everything out on the field like it&#8217;s my last.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How he stacks up: Miller ranked McNeil-Warren as his No. 20 overall prospect and No. 3 safety available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,416,147,415,6,114163],"class_list":{"0":"post-822923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroitlions","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-news-twentyman","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-photos-road-to-the-draft-yoy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116261223386017480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}