This episode, Football 301, Dane Bruegler from The Athletic. The Beast himself joins me to talk

about the 2026 NFL draft. We talk about his latest seven-round mock draft, talk about some

the player team fits, getting to some my guys, we plant some flags at the end of the show. And we

also take a little look ahead at the 2027 draft.

Also, I could just sit down with the House State wide receiver,

Carnell Tate, for a very fun conversation.

Great show.

See you guys in a second.

Hello, welcome back to Football 301.

I'm your host, Nate Tice.

Very, very excited for today's show.

A bit of a reunion episode, you could call it that.

My former coworker, the Beast himself, Dane Bruegler, from The Athletic, is joining

me a prospects to pros reunion.

Dane, I know you're a very busy guy writing up probably 580, 720.

Tell me when to stop, 960 players, backgrounds, little league stats.

I think I saw some Pop Warner stats in there in some of those write-ups.

But Dane, the draft expert from

the Athletic, here to join me, talk about the draft. How you doing, Dan? Great to see you.

I'm good. How are you, my friend? I'm doing okay. We were just talking before the show.

Is it 2027 yet? Is the next cycle starting? That's kind of how it feels, right?

Yeah, I mean, like, not to definitely listen to the rest of this podcast, but I'm at the

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