Mike Renner

@247Sports Lead NFL Draft Analyst 🏈 | @ShrinersBowl Scout 📽️

[Mike Renner @mikerenner_]

Jackson Harris can get to some crazy angles for a 6-foot-2 WR

[Thor Nystrom @thorku]

The Vikings were presented a fascinating scenario in this back-and-forth 2027 mock draft with @mikerenner_ 👀

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@Anthony_Russo97 oh imma try to get em

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This rep from TCU EDGE Koron Hayward stopped me in my tracks. 6-5, 245-pounders aren't supposed to move like this

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Jordan Love had the farthest depth of target this week (13.9) and 2nd-highest completion % (79.6)

Hard to stop this O when they catch the ball

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AJ Terrell has to have nightmares about Ja’Marr Chase man

[that SEC podcast @thatSECpodcast]

SEC countdown take 2: SEC football returns in 52 days!

LSU’s offense started slow (at least in terms of their historic pace) against Clemson but got things going when Joe Burrow connected with Ja’Marr Chase on this 52-yard pass.

Once the offense woke up, this game was over

[Will Parkinson @Willpa11]

Somewhere @mikerenner_ is smiling seeing this

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The Panthers currently have the league-leader in pressures allowed at LT, C, and RG

not good, very bad

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@C_Mar54 Sadly not making it back, trick or treating at great grandmas

[Mike Renner @mikerenner_]

I moved away from Milwaukee when I was 6-years old, but 30-years later I still eagerly tell people it’s where I’m from. My family moved to a small town right in the center of Illinois called Mahomet that was divided evenly between Cardinals and Cubs fans - a split that did not apply to football where Bears fandom dominated. My brothers and I proudly upset all of them wearing Brewers and Packers gear as much as humanly possible. Maybe it would have been easier to make friends by assimilating my fandom, but I didn’t want to be like them, I wanted to be from Milwaukee. I have my father to thank for that.

An altogether composed man by his nature, sports was the one thing that would consistently get him animated. I suppose us boys subconsciously picked up on that because it became our whole childhood. There’s very few memories that stick with me that don’t involve playing or watching baseball, football, basketball, soccer, golf, or tennis - we’d go from one to the other. When my dad could, he’d coach and if he wasn’t coaching you’d hear him (and even more so my mom) from the stands. He loved sports trivia and would bring packs of cards to give away to whichever kids got questions right after practice. I would get upset when he told me I couldn’t answer any more after I got one right, but deep down I knew he was delighted to have to cut me off.

My dad didn’t care whether we won or lost, whether I played well or didn’t, only that I played the game the right way. I still remember him deriding me at home for gloating about my pitching performance in fourth grade. “That’s not how you act no matter how you played.” I understood from then on reflexively that you played for the spirit of competition, not your desired result.

As I grew older and my aspirations didn’t match my work ethic, I became disenchanted with the game. Jaded that it didn’t give me all the things I wanted from it. From 2012-2025 I can count on my hands the amount of Brewers games I watched after consuming 100+ games a season during my teenage years. I would tell others it’s because I wanted a break after football season, but my childhood self knew it was because I had never envisioned myself on this side of the television.

That is, until I had my son in May. The most beautiful blank slate to imbue the lessons I have learned from a lifetime of messing up. When I looked back on my childhood contemplating which experiences I wanted to give to him, baseball kept coming up. Playing home run derby with tennis balls in a grade school playground across from my grandmas. Hitting my first home run with a Rawlings Mac 25 bat. Throwing my first curveball. Watching Scott Podsednik drive in Craig Counsell at 1:30am in a 17-inning 1-0 snoozefest. The game I thought only gave me heartbreak actually had given me so much more. It connected me to my dad. It connected me to my hometown. It taught me life lessons I didn’t even know I was learning. All the things I hope to give to my son. He won’t remember any of the 40 or so games we watched this year - or slept through in his case - but I’ll never forget them.

There are more days than I care to admit where I question whether what I do means anything. Whether I’d have been better off putting my math skills to use as an engineer or actuary. Then I think back to myself as a little kid who always felt most like himself on a baseball diamond or football field or basketball court and I remember the power for good sports can be in the lives of many. I pray I never lose sight of that.

Thank you, dad. And thank you, Milwaukee. You both deserved this.

[Mike Renner @mikerenner_]

@bolts10213 🤝

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@dehaan_nathan Oh let’s go!

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@austrich I really appreciate that man!

[SKOR North - Minnesota Sports @SKORNorth]

DEEP 2027 NFL Draft sleepers that teams NEED to keep an eye on 👀

- @DCobb27 joins!
- NFL Draft prospects teams can't let fly under the radar
- Mailbag questions

[Thor Nystrom @thorku]

We have a mailbag segment on tomorrow’s Draft Takes show with @mikerenner_ — if you have a question about the 2027 NFL Draft, drop it below and we might answer on the show.

[Evan Lazar @ezlazar]

The Gabe Jacas film is so good, guys.

#Patriots rookie winning with power, quickness, bend around the arc and play recognition. High level stuff.

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Every week @EricGalko and @mikerenner_ go live and break down the best performances of the weekend as we get closer and closer to the NFL Draft.

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[Mike Renner @mikerenner_]

@MitchSchwartz71 when you move that fast, time actually dilates so he thought 14 seconds had elapsed

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Omar Cooper Jr. had an outstanding (full) debut. Separated consistently vs. man coverage.

Finished w/ 6 catches for 103 yards & TD with another TD called back

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The David Walker breakout is no fluke at this point after beating both Steelers tackles for a sack yesterday. He leads the entire NFL in pass-rush win-rate per @PFF (26.3%)