2026 NFL Draft night two recap
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Night two of the 2026 NFL Draft is in the books and, once again, we implore you to go check out our full, pick-by-pick recap on our YouTube channel. If you don't have time for that, though, allow this truncated version to be your guide. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen Dave Helman and Dane Brugler recap the second and third rounds of the draft on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
Guests: Dane Brugler and Bruce Feldman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Senior Producer: Katy Duffy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.0 | Night 2 of the draft is in the books. |
| 0:08.7 | If you want to hear about every single pick of the second and third round, you can do that. |
| 0:13.5 | On the Athletic Football Show's YouTube channel, you can go back and watch the stream from last night. |
| 0:18.3 | If you don't watch streams at all, encourage you to do it. |
| 0:20.5 | We've got highlight packages for a good chunk of the players drafted. Like, I'm not trying to, like, you know, pump us up too much. It looks pretty darn good. Like, we really have increased a lot of the elements, the production elements of what this stream looks like over the last couple years. The behind the scenes people who I will absolutely be thanking more tomorrow, I've done a phenomenal job. And so I would encourage you guys to go check it out. Even if you don't normally consume the show on YouTube, it is just a different sort of product than anything else we've ever put in there. So if you want to see our commentary on any of the picks that your team's made, we did talk about every |
| 0:56.0 | single pick that happened over the first two nights. Tonight, just a recap of night two, our |
| 1:01.2 | favorite picks, the biggest surprises, our favorite halls, our favorite moment, spoiler alert, |
| 1:05.3 | Steve Anterell going to the Falcons moment. That was one of my favorite all-time drafts clips |
| 1:10.1 | that I've ever seen. Talked a little bit about |
| 1:12.5 | our favorite halls, the pairings we didn't know we |
| 1:14.6 | needed, and then chatted about |
| 1:16.4 | the veteran trades that happened |
| 1:18.5 | on Friday during the draft to round |
| 1:20.7 | things out. Me, |
| 1:22.8 | Dan Bruegler, Derek Classen, Dave |
| 1:24.7 | Hellman, breaking it all down. |
| 1:26.5 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:31.9 | Night two of the 2026 draft is in The Books. Would encourage you guys if you want to hear about |
| 1:38.5 | literally any of the picks from the top 100. We've talked about every single one of them. |
| 1:44.5 | There was a stretch where we almost missed a couple, but I got us there. |
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