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

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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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. Fill out The Athletic's listener survey. Three people will win $100 in vouchers at Amazon: theathletic.com/athletic/survey25 Host: Robert Mays Co-Host: Derrik Klassen With: Dane Brugler 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 Robert on X: @robertmays Follow Derrik on X: @QBKlass Follow Dane on X: @dpbrugler 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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0:33.2	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.
0:35.5	I'm Robert Mays.
0:36.4	It's running backs day on the Athletic Football Show feed.'m Robert Mays. It's running backs day on the athletic football
0:39.0	show feed. We're hitting this deep, deep crop of running backs, a position that we don't always hit
0:45.1	in the run-up to the draft, but because there's so many guys this year, headlined by Ashton
0:49.8	Genty, felt like we needed to dig into it. Joining me to do that today, it's Dan Bruegler and Derek Classen.
0:55.7	Very, very excited about this conversation.
0:58.2	Talked a lot about Gentie at the top, discussed who the number two back in this class is,
1:02.4	how much of a gap there is between Omerion Hampton and Caleb Johnson.
1:05.7	If you pass on Gentie in the first round, if you're a team like the Bears, the Raiders, the Cowboys,
1:11.4	who might be one of those guys that you could be looking for in the second round.
1:15.0	Chatted about Dan and Derek's favorite day three picks.
1:17.8	Some guys that they think might fit a Bucky Irving mold.
1:20.4	Could go outside of the top 75, could be a thousand yard back in the right situation next year.
1:24.9	And then a couple other smaller superlatives that we hit
1:28.3	over the course of this show. So let's get to that conversation with Eric and Dane right now.
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