Building the Beast: Alabama/Oklahoma and Miami/Texas A&M loaded with NFL Draft talent
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The College Football Playoffs kick off this week, and while the results on the field will understandably dominate the discussion around the games, it's the performances of the NFL Draft prospects that we care about most here at The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast. Dane Brugler and Dave Helman dive into the draft-eligible players you need to be watching when you've got the CFP games on this weekend. Before that, the guys discuss the QB movement—or non-movement, as the case may be—for guys like LaNorris Sellers, Arch Manning and Brendan Sorsby.
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Host: Dave Helman
Co-Host: Dane Brugler
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Building the Beast. |
| 0:05.6 | I am your host, Dave Hellman, and we have a loaded episode for y'all. |
| 0:09.7 | It is Playoff Week. |
| 0:10.9 | Four big matchups in the first round of the college football playoffs, starting on Friday. |
| 0:16.3 | Dane Bruegler and myself dove into all of them previewing the names, the matchups you need to know |
| 0:22.2 | with the NFL prospects in all of these games. Fantastic conversation. And in addition to that, |
| 0:28.7 | we actually started the show with a little bit of housekeeping. You may know this is a topsy-turvy |
| 0:34.3 | sport these days. There's player movement. There's change all over the place at this |
| 0:39.7 | time of year. We had a fun conversation about the quarterbacks in this potential draft class and |
| 0:45.7 | some that won't be because guys are already deciding to go back to school, deciding to stay with |
| 0:50.9 | their current programs. We had a chat about Arch Manning and Lenora Sellers, |
| 0:55.2 | as well as a couple of guys who may be on the move, |
| 0:57.6 | either to another school or to the NFL here over the next month or so, |
| 1:01.8 | started the show with that and then dove into the first round |
| 1:04.9 | of the college football playoffs. |
| 1:06.3 | Great episode. |
| 1:07.1 | Let's get it going. |
| 1:12.2 | All right, Dane, it's playoff week. We got four huge matchups in the first round of the |
| 1:17.5 | college football playoff. We're going to dive into all of that. Alabama, Oklahoma, |
| 1:22.7 | Ole Miss Tulane, Oregon, JMU, as well as Miami, Texas, A&M. |
| 1:27.9 | For my money, the one that I'm looking forward to the most just for the sheer amount of |
| 1:32.4 | NFL talent on both sides of the ball. |
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