Welcome to another episode of Building the Beast.

I am Dave Hellman, and every week during this 2025 college football season, we seek to

build the Beast, Dane Bruegler's annual, comprehensive, exhaustive draft guide, due out

in 2026, but it doesn't just drop as a finished product in the spring.

It is a painstaking process put together over the course of a summer, a fall, a winter.

And this is that process.

Dane Bruegler joining me every week during the season to evaluate, analyze, put together prospect lists as we creep

toward the 2026 NFL draft. If you are an NFL fan whose team might be picking at the top of that

draft. We welcome you in. We're excited to talk about this draft class with you. Without further ado,

that feels like a pretty good intro. Let's get into this week's Building the Beast.

And back to our regularly scheduled programming.

It is good to be joined once again by my buddy, Dane Brugler, back from his travels.

Dane, it's good to see you, man.

How we doing?

I'm good. Thanks to Trevor for filling in. You guys did awesome. I listened to the pod on my flight.

Robert and I were in New York for some from work stuff and happy to be back now because yeah,

we've got a lot to cover here uh we're what november Halloween's over

so it's like that to me feels like all right now seasons we got a month left for the season's over

some of these guys you know we're we're almost out of tape and so it's like the last go for some

of these players to put good stuff on tape for for scouts and for teams.

Kind of like a last audition type of thing.

So it's going to be a busy next month.

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