Biggest questions remaining after the draft
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The coaching carousel has stopped spinning. The free agency frenzy is in the rear-view mirror. The 2025 NFL Draft is done. All 32 teams as currently constructed are essentially what they are going to be when they take the field in Week 1. So what are the weightiest questions we still have? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen ask, and try to answer, those questions on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Who's going to catch passes for the Cowboys?
- Is the Bills pass-catcher anxiety warranted?
- Is the Cardinals OL good enough to get them where they want to go?
- Did Houston do enough on defense to stay the course?
- Who plays QB for the Steelers in 2025
- The Panthers didn't draft a corner, and didn't take a safety until the fourth round....ummmm, what?
- How soon do we see Tyler Shough starting for the Saints?
- Sneaky teams we're excited to watch in 2025
- Do any of the veteran trade candidates get moved?
- What happens with the veteran free agents and contract extension candidates?
- What are the Vikings going to do in the secondary?
- Lingering team-specific needs
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:37.2 | football show. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:39.1 | The draft is fully in the books now. |
| 0:41.1 | Our draft analysis is done. |
| 0:44.0 | We are going to spend today turning the page and looking forward a little bit for the first time post-draft. |
| 0:49.6 | We do the show most years, and I think it's really useful as a way to kind of figure out how things look after |
| 0:55.0 | the dust settles, we're going to ask the biggest questions we still have now that the 2025 draft |
| 1:00.9 | is in the books. You can take that a bunch of different directions. We're going to talk about some of |
| 1:04.7 | the biggest needs that still exists on NFL rosters. Who's catching passes for the Cowboys? |
| 1:09.8 | Who's rushing the passer for |
| 1:10.8 | Washington, who's playing corner for the dolphins. |
| 1:13.3 | There are a bunch of those that we can get to. |
| 1:15.4 | Some wider, bigger picture questions, where are the remaining veteran free agents |
| 1:19.3 | going to land? |
| 1:20.3 | Some of the contracts that are still looming this offseason. |
| 1:23.0 | Are there any potential trade candidates to take a look at that weren't moved over |
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