Biggest remaining questions heading into the 2025 NFL Draft
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Friends, the 2025 NFL Draft has arrived. All our questions will finally be answered. But, for the time being, we still have questions! How many quarterbacks will go in the first round? Who, if anyone, will make a big move up the board? How will the receiver and corner positions shake out? Will any veteran players get traded? Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dane Brugler ask the questions that still have them flummoxed on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- All things quarterback
- Who makes the move for Ashton Jeanty?
- Who's going to be the trade-up team?
- How high do the toolsy pass rushers go?
- Are both tight ends really gonna go that high?
- How do the receivers shake out?
- How does corner shake out?
- Veteran player trades
- Does the league buy these interior offensive linemen?
- What do the 49ers want to be on defense?
- Who's the back-half-of-the-first-round surprise pick?
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays, our final show before the 2025 draft. |
| 0:09.8 | This is a first. We record this from my kitchen table in Chicago, me and Dan and Derek, all just sitting around the table. |
| 0:14.8 | We're doing our live draft show in Chicago this weekend. That's why those guys are in town. |
| 0:19.8 | Thursday night, 7.30 p.m. Eastern, live on the Athletic Football Show YouTube channel, me, Dane, Derek, Bruce Feldman, breaking down every pick of the first round as it happens. We've got some fun bells and whistles from the studio this year. Really are excited about what we're going to be bringing to you guys. Hope you can spend Thursday night with us. we're going to be back on Friday 6.30 p.m. Eastern, me, day, and Derek, bunch of guests from the athletic breaking down and analyzing every pick from the second and third round. Very, very excited about that. So please, would love to have you guys come hang out with us, one of my favorite weekends of the year and we really really looking forward to it for now though we're digging into our biggest questions heading into the draft we've done this the last few years just the things that are on your mind on draft eve where will ask shen genti go is there going to be a team that's a surprise trade up team who has the widest range of outcomes among all of these players where Where are the quarterback is going to go? Where are the Giants going to find one? Are they going to take Shadur Sanders in the first round? Are they going to take Jackson Dart in the first round? Where in the first round is that going to happen? So a bunch of intrigue heading into a draft class that feels pretty muddled, feels pretty flat, and I think that that has the potential for some surprises heading into draft night. |
| 1:30.9 | We dug into all of that with me, Dane, and Derek. |
| 1:33.4 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:38.8 | Well, it is the day before the 2025 NFL draft. |
| 1:43.6 | We are in Chicago at My Kitchen Table, which is a new experience for all of us. |
| 1:48.3 | But I think it feels pretty good. |
| 1:49.8 | It feels pretty natural. |
| 1:50.7 | I'm glad that we're here. |
| 1:52.0 | And we are doing a show today that we have done, I think each of the last like four |
| 1:54.9 | or five years, Draft Show. |
| 1:58.1 | And pretty much the way that we celebrate the draft arriving is we do a show about the |
| 2:03.0 | biggest questions we have heading into that year's draft. |
| 2:06.0 | And this year is no exception. |
| 2:07.2 | That's what we're doing today. |
| 2:08.0 | The biggest questions we have heading into a 2025 NFL draft that has a weird amount |
| 2:13.7 | of intrigue just because it feels like virtually anything is on the table not only for |
| 2:18.4 | the first round but i think a little bit deeper into the draft as well yeah first off thanks for |
| 2:22.5 | inviting us into your home it's beautiful uh just kind of like all of chicago it's my first time here in |
| 2:27.1 | 20 years it's been awesome uh but it's funny draft eve you would think that the closer you get to the |
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