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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

2022 NFL Draft: Free agency's draft impact & o-line deep dive with Brandon Thorn

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Sports, Football, Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Nfl, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

How has the Russell Wilson trade and the first bit of free agency frenzy impacted the top of the draft and Brugler & Zierlein's mock drafts? They run you through their analysis of the free agent signings before welcoming Brandon Thorn of Bleacher Report to dive into the o-line class and which names could be of value across the league.


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0:00.0

This is the Athletic Football Show.

0:14.4

Welcome back. I'm Dane Bruegler.

0:16.6

Joined as always with NFL.com's Lance Airline.

0:19.8

This is the athletic football show, our midweek NFL draft edition.

0:23.9

Today, we'll be talking with offensive line guru, Brandon Thorne, his favorite linemen in the class.

0:29.7

How does he sort through the top guys?

0:32.0

What does he think Jacksonville is going to do at number one?

0:34.7

And, you know, we'll take a whole, the whole totality look at the

0:40.0

offensive line group. But Lance, we're in the middle of peak free agency right now. So we've seen

0:44.8

plenty of player movement the last week and a half. A lot of money being thrown around, a few

0:50.9

trades, a lot of draft implications. So that's where I want to focus on

0:55.0

to start here. Let's start with that Russell Wilson trade. We haven't really talked since then.

0:59.6

He goes from Seattle to Denver. Seahawks get back multiple players, multiple picks, including the

1:04.6

Broncos first and second rounders this year. So the Seahawks, they have that number nine pick overall.

1:12.3

My first reaction was it's going to be a quarterback, right?

1:15.7

But when you look at their roster, man, they have so many needs.

1:19.6

I mean, they could go past rush there.

1:21.0

They could go offensive tackle there.

1:23.7

There's just so many different directions.

1:25.0

They could go at number nine.

1:25.9

What are you thinking now with Seattle holding that number nine pick?

1:29.4

Well, I was putting an unenviable task if I had to have a mock draft on.

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