On her latest Making Monsters podcast, Taylor Doll keeps her 2026 NFL Draft series going with an interview with Jacob Goins of Locked on Hoosiers to talk about several prospects from the Indiana Hoosiers National Championship team. They start with wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr., then move to the defense, discussing corner D\u2019Angelo Ponds, EDGE Mikail Kamara, and linebacker Aiden Fisher.<\/p>\n
The Bears did host Kamara on a Top 30 visit, and while he\u2019s a smaller defensive end than what Dennis Allen usually targets at 6\u20191\u201d, 250, he has pass-rush upside as a day-three pick.<\/p>\n
Ponds is another guy who is a bit smaller (5\u20199\u201d, 182), and a move to nickel may be in the cards, but he more than held his own outside for the Hoosiers.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe prides himself on one-on-one man-to-man,\u201d Goins said about Ponds. \u201cIt\u2019s either going to be tight, we\u2019ll drop back and play, but there\u2019s not a whole lot of safety help here for D\u2019Angelo Ponds. I mean, he is somebody you just you put him out there and you never had to worry about him. Most of the time, funny enough, you forgot he was there because he was so good and locked down whichever receiver he was playing that you just never heard his name a whole lot. That\u2019s why his stats in terms of his pass deflections and interceptions and things like that, they\u2019re just not all that crazy because teams were like, \u2018Nah, we\u2019re good. We\u2019ll throw to the other side of the field.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Give Taylor\u2019s show a listen in either of the embeds below, and let us know if you hope any Indiana Hoosiers end up in Chicago.<\/p>\n
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