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🗓️ 3 July 2025
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Revisiting recent drafts can help inform what we think about the league in the present moment and the ways that teams make decisions. Especially when you've got Dane Brugler at your disposal. Dane joins Robert Mays on this episode of The Athletic Football Show to look back at the 2018 NFL Draft, a class that, in real life, saw Baker Mayfield, Saquon Barkley and Sam Darnold go 1-2-3, Josh Allen land with the Bills at No. 7, and Lamar Jackson taken off the board by the Ravens with the last pick of the first round. How would that draft go with the benefit of hindsight? And what can we take away from what happened then and what we now know?
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
With: Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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1:09.2 | We've never done a redraft on this podcast. I've been doing it for five years. I don't know why we've never done any sort of redraft. A lot of other people do it. I understand the benefit of them. I understand why they're fun. It's never really particularly interested me as an exercise. But I have Dane. And so there's no reason to not do this every once in a while. |
1:28.6 | That's where I landed with this. That's why we ultimately decided to do our first redraft |
1:33.0 | here in the Drex of summer. I told Dane, you pick any draft from the past 15 years, |
1:40.4 | essentially since the new rookie scale in 2011 and that CBA, he went with the 2018 group, |
1:47.1 | obviously tons of intrigue, a lot of quarterbacks, a lot of fun non-quarterbacks at the top of |
1:52.7 | this draft, a non-premium position. So really enjoyed this, just kind of exploring the sliding |
1:58.1 | doors moments, the what ifs, the path's not taken so let's get |
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