Abdul Carter, Mason Graham, and a loaded defensive line draft class
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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
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
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Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Dane Brugler and Fran Duffy
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Robert Mays, really fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:08.9 | Fran Duffy from PHLY is here to talk about this year's group of defensive tackle and edge prospects. |
| 0:16.9 | He and Dane, who also hopped on, which Dane's got a million things going on right now. |
| 0:20.7 | It's Beast Day. So appreciate Dane spending an hour with us as well. They had some Dane, who also hopped on, which Dane's got a million things going on right now. It's Beast Day. |
| 0:21.3 | So I appreciate Dane spending an hour with us as well. |
| 0:24.5 | They had some different opinions on some of these guys in this group, Shamar Stewart, Mike Green. So we had some thoughts across the board about a lot of these guys who may go in the first round. talked about those players where we got a little bit of a split between these two guys, |
| 0:37.9 | talked about some of the consensus first rounders in this group, |
| 0:40.7 | Abdul Carter, Michael Williams, guys like Derek Harmon, |
| 0:43.4 | who's already one of my favorites here so far in the process, |
| 0:46.8 | talked about probably about a dozen players that may go on day one or early day two |
| 0:52.0 | along the edge and on the interior defensive line. So let's get to that |
| 0:55.6 | conversation right now. I've been looking forward to this one. I think some people over |
| 1:05.5 | the years have been a little bit critical about maybe the lack of disagreement on the show. |
| 1:09.8 | We're all a little bit too nice to |
| 1:11.2 | each other. I'm not sure that's going to be a problem today. We are digging into the edge rushers |
| 1:15.7 | and defensive linemen in this class. And I have two guys with, I would say, disparate opinions |
| 1:20.9 | about a lot of the bigger name players among those groups. Two guys who have a real steadfast respect |
| 1:27.4 | and like admiration for one another. |
| 1:29.8 | And that's why I think this is going to be good because it's going to be rooted in some healthy disagreement. |
| 1:34.4 | Here to help me dig in to those pools of players. |
| 1:37.8 | First of all, it is the beast himself on Beast Day. |
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