Building the Beast: Dane Brugler's end-of-season mock draft
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
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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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| 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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