2025 NFL Draft second and third round recap
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The second and third rounds of the 2025 NFL Draft are in the books, and the first half of our draft story is all but complete. Who were our favorite picks on day two? Where were the surprises? Which teams came away with the best hauls across the first three rounds? Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dane Brugler answer those questions, and more, as they put a capstone on The Athletic Football Show's live coverage of the 2025 NFL Draft.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:49.4 | The future is open. Welcome to the athletic football shows recap of rounds two and three of the NFL draft 2025. |
| 0:50.5 | I am Robert Mays. |
| 0:51.9 | Joining me for this, first of all, it is our wonderful draft expert at the athletic |
| 0:56.0 | Dean Brugler. Dane, we did it. |
| 0:58.2 | We made it through the first two nights of the draft, 102 picks. |
| 1:01.3 | You look spry. |
| 1:02.7 | I'm starting to wear down a little bit over here. |
| 1:05.7 | Fake it to you make it. |
| 1:06.9 | Right here. |
| 1:08.0 | No, it's three rounds in the books. |
| 1:10.3 | We've got a lot of players that |
| 1:12.9 | we thought could go here that maybe are still on the board which is really interesting we've |
| 1:18.2 | had a lot of interesting fits tonight a lot of teams i think have kind of shown us their cards in |
| 1:23.4 | terms of their vision you know we always say like you follow the money what they do in free agency what they what they do in the draft really tells us a lot in terms of their vision. You know, we always say, like, you follow the money, what they do in free agency, what they do in the draft really tells us a lot in terms of their plan for their team. And some of that's really coming into more clear of a picture, which is interesting. Also joining me tonight, it is my co-host here at the Athletic Football Show, Derek Klesson. How are you feeling over there? You made it. This is your |
| 1:44.3 | first one of these? You powered through. I'm very impressed. Hanging on. You know, I got a little bit of the taste of doing the live show at a big event like this when we did some of the Super Bowl stuff. But that was a much shorter time span doing two days back to back of what, four, four and a half hours. |
| 1:40.3 | We can sit here for five hours already. |
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