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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Building the Beast: Dane Brugler's end-of-season mock draft

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Football,, Football, Nfl Draft, Nfl, Robert Mays, Sports

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It's December. The college football regular season is over. It's Mock Draft Season. Dane Brugler's end-of-season mock draft is now live at The Athletic, and he and Dave Helman dig into it on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.


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Host: Dave Helman

Co-Host: Dane Brugler

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to an all-new episode of Building the Beast.

0:05.6

I am Dave Hellman.

0:06.7

And if draft season wasn't starting to feel real yet, it will now because Dane

0:12.6

Brugler's first mock draft draft draft cycle has hit the internet.

0:19.8

It's available on the athletic.com, on the athletic app,

0:23.0

wherever you prefer to read it. You can go take a look at what Dane sees shaking out in a very,

0:29.6

let me stress, very preliminary first round mock draft for 2026. That was the meat of today's

0:36.5

episode, Dana and I working through the top of the

0:39.3

draft, the top 10, what might happen with the quarterbacks. We included some trades just for

0:44.9

the intrigue of it all, as well as looking at what prospects might be available later in the first

0:50.2

round for the playoff and championship caliber teams as they turn their focus to the draft.

0:55.5

On top of that, took a look at championship weekend in college football.

0:59.7

Ohio State's playing Indiana.

1:01.6

Alabama's playing Georgia.

1:02.9

Don't need more of a primer than that.

1:05.1

Loaded episode.

1:06.1

Let's get to it.

1:11.9

All right, Dan, well, as we are recording this, it hasn't, this mock draft, which we're

1:18.0

about to preview, has not hit the inner webs yet.

1:21.3

It's not available for public consumption.

1:24.2

So, I don't know.

1:25.7

A, how did you sleep putting this together? Because we've been

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