Abdul Carter, Mason Graham, and a loaded defensive line draft class

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

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Dane Brugler has been telling us for months that this is a good draft to need defensive players. That's exemplified by a defensive line class that features 28 players inside the top 100 of The Beast. Dane and Fran Duffy from the ALLCITY Network join Robert Mays on this episode of The Athletic Football Show to break down the DL class in the 2025 NFL Draft. Rundown Abdul Carter Mason Graham Mykel Williams Jalon Walker Walter Nolen Derrick Harmon Shemar Stewart Mike Green James Pearce Jr. Kenneth Grant Landon Jackson Get The Beast: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/the-beast/2025/ Host: Robert Mays Co-Host: Derrik Klassen With: Dane Brugler and Fran Duffy Executive Producer: Michael Beller Producer: Michael Beller Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social Follow Derrik on Bluesky: @qbklass.bsky.social Follow Dane on Bluesky: @danebrugler.bsky.social Follow Fran on Bluesky: @fduffy.bsky.social Follow Robert on X: @robertmays Follow Derrik on X: @QBKlass Follow Dane on X: @dpbrugler Follow Fran on X: @FDuffyNFL Theme song: Haunted Written by Dylan Slocum, Trevor Dietrich, Ruben Duarte, Kyle McAulay, and Meredith VanWoert / Performed by Spanish Love Songs Courtesy of Pure Noise / By arrangement with Bank Robber Music, LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dane Bruegler. I cover the NFL draft for the athletic.
0:04.0	Our draft guide picked up the name The Beast because of the crazy amount of information that's included.
0:10.0	I'm looking at thousands of players putting together hundreds of scouting reports.
0:14.0	I've been covering this year's draft since last year's draft.
0:17.0	There is a lot in the Beast that you simply can't find anywhere else.
0:25.6	You can get the beast and all the great coverage my colleagues do by subscribing to The Athletic. You can do that at theathletic.com slash subscribe.
0:34.3	Welcome to the athletic football show.
0:36.5	I'm Robert Mays, really fun show for you guys today.
0:39.5	Fran Duffy from PHLY is here to talk about this year's group of defensive tackle and edge prospects.
0:47.5	He and Dane, who also hopped on, which Dane's got a million things going on right now.
0:51.2	It's Beast Day. So appreciate Dan Dane spending an hour with us as well.
0:55.1	They had some different opinions on some of these guys in this group, Shamar Stewart, Mike Green.
0:59.5	So we had some thoughts across the board about a lot of these guys who may go in the first round.
1:04.4	Talked about those players where we got a little bit of a split between these two guys, talked about some of the consensus first rounders in this group abdul carter michael williams guys like derrick harmon who's already one of my
1:15.1	favorites here so far in the process talked about probably about a dozen players that may go on
1:20.5	day one or early day two along the edge and on the interior defensive line so let's get to that conversation
1:26.8	right now.
1:32.5	I've been looking forward to this one.
1:34.9	I think some people over the years have been a little bit critical about
1:37.9	maybe the lack of disagreement on this show.
1:40.4	We're all a little bit too nice to each other.
1:42.3	I'm not sure that's going to be a problem today.
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