2025 NFL Draft first round recap + best day two picks
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The first round of the 2025 NFL Draft is in the books. What were our favorite picks? What were the biggest surprises. Who do we feel different about because of his landing spot. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen, Dane Brugler and Bruce Feldman answer those questions, and also take a look ahead to night two, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Favorite picks of the night
- Biggest surprises
- Biggest head-scratchers
- Best fits
- The guys you see differently because of where he landed
- The best players remaining going into night two
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Dane Brugler and Bruce Feldman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:07.2 | What you guys are about to hear is the final 45 or so minutes of our draft stream that we did live on the Athletic Football Show YouTube channel earlier tonight. |
| 0:17.2 | What an awesome night. |
| 0:18.6 | The first round did not disappoint. |
| 0:20.1 | We had some really fun |
| 0:21.0 | surprises. The Travis Hunter trade. The Browns being in the team that traded down as part of that. |
| 0:26.3 | There's some interesting picks in the top 10, Teddaro and McMillan going to the Panthers, |
| 0:29.9 | etc. The draft stream was such a blast. It was me, Dane Bruegler, Bruce Feldman, and Derek |
| 0:36.3 | Klesson for every single pick of the first round. |
| 0:39.1 | If you guys want to go check out the stream on YouTube, the whole thing, it's up. |
| 0:42.8 | You can go watch our reactions to any single pick. |
| 0:45.6 | You can watch it in its entirety if you want to on Friday morning. |
| 0:48.9 | That is available to you right now. |
| 0:50.9 | But the same thing we did last year, we kind of stopped down and then regrouped after the final pick was made to do, you know, our takeaways and big picture |
| 0:59.4 | thoughts from the draft, but also just so it could serve as a podcast that could live in the |
| 1:03.4 | podcast feed rather than dropping the entire draft stream into the feed. So it's still available |
| 1:08.4 | on YouTube if you want to check it out. But we felt like this was a nice, tight wrap up of the best moments that happened over the feed. So it's still available on YouTube if you want to check it out, but we felt like this was a |
| 1:11.1 | nice, tight wrap-up of the best moments that happened over the course of the night. Our favorite |
| 1:16.3 | fits, some head-scratching moments, some players that we're looking at a little bit differently now that |
| 1:20.5 | we see where they landed. And according to Dane, the best players left on the board as we get |
| 1:26.2 | tonight to tomorrow. Just a reminder, |
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