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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Ashton Jeanty, Omarion Hampton, and the deepest running back draft class in years

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Football, Nfl, Sports, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

You know Ashton Jeanty. You know Omarion Hampton. You know Kaleb Johnson and TreVeyon Henderson. And if you know all of them, chances are you know that this is the deepest running back draft class in years. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dane Brugler dig deep into that class on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.


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Host: Robert Mays

Co-Host: Derrik Klassen

With: Dane Brugler

Executive Producer: Michael Beller

Producer: Michael Beller

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

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0:37.7

I'm Robert Mays.

0:38.7

It's running backs day on the athletic football show feed.

0:42.3

We're hitting this deep, deep crop of running backs, a position that we don't always hit in the run-up

0:48.1

to the draft, but because there's so many guys this year, headlined by Ashton Genti, felt

0:52.7

like we needed to dig into it. Joining me to do that today, it's Dan Bruegler and Derek Classen, very, very excited about this conversation. Talked a lot about Gentie at the top, discussed who the number two back in this class is, how much of a gap there is between Omerian Hampton and Caleb Johnson. If you pass on Gentie in the first round, if you're a team like the Bears, the Raiders, the Cowboys, who might be one of those guys that you could be looking for in the second round? Chat about Dan and Derek's favorite day three picks. Some guys that they think might fit a Bucky Irving mold. Could go outside of the top 75. It could be a thousand yard back in the right situation next year, and then a couple

1:28.0

other smaller superlatives that we hit over the course of this show. So let's get to that

1:32.7

conversation with Derek and Dane right now.

1:39.5

It's running backs day on the athletic football show. We don't always do running backs as a position

1:45.6

group heading into the draft as we pick these position specific shows. But this class, as I've come to

1:52.1

understand it, as I've been told, is a group where we needed to dive head first into the running

1:57.2

backs. Two people here to help me do that today. First off, it is my co-host

2:01.0

here at the athletic football show. Derek Klaus and Derek, how are you feeling, man? I'm doing fantastic. This was a little bit of a like a throwback for me in the sense of, you know, when I was with Bleacher Report, I did all skill players. And so for me to jump all the way in, you know, dozen guys deep back into the running back class.

1:59.4

It's what I've been used to.

2:01.5

Also joining us today, it is what I've been used to.

2:18.5

Also joining us today,

2:16.1

it is our draft expert here at the athletic at Stain Bruegler. Dan, we had to do the running backs this year. I think you were one of the ones pushing this. Why this year with the running backs? It's just such a deep group. And obviously, you've got a headliner with Ashen Gentie at the top.

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