Building the Beast: Dane Brugler's updated Top 100
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Seahawks are Super Bowl LX Champions, that's cool. It's also old news. It's 2026 NFL Draft time! And what better way to kick off the beginning of draft season than with a freshly updated edition of Dane Brugler's Top 100. He and Dave Helman dive deep into the new big board on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast.
Host: Dave Helman
Co-Host: Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Video Producer: Katy Duffy
Audio Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Building the Beast. |
| 0:06.0 | And if you're listening to this, your team is officially undefeated. |
| 0:09.6 | The Seattle Seahawks triumph in Super Bowl 60 means the season is officially in the books. |
| 0:16.2 | And it's really real deal draft season now. |
| 0:19.5 | And what better way to ring that in than an updated top 100 |
| 0:24.0 | big board from Dane Bruegler. While we were at the Super Bowl, Dane was hard at work, |
| 0:28.6 | putting together his top 100 players in this 26 NFL draft class. Plenty of names we've covered. |
| 0:35.6 | Plenty of guys we've known are going to go at the top of this draft. |
| 0:38.2 | We talked about the top 10. |
| 0:40.0 | We talked about the deep positions, which guys might hear their names called early, |
| 0:44.9 | which position groups might have a lot of guys go in the top 30, top 40 of the draft. |
| 0:50.2 | Plenty of talk about receivers and edge rushers. |
| 0:53.0 | Also made a concerted effort to talk about the names |
| 0:55.4 | maybe you haven't heard yet we call this building the beast so the goal is to talk about |
| 1:00.6 | as many prospects as possible we made sure to do that as well really fun episode let's get to it |
| 1:06.4 | right now. |
| 1:17.4 | Well, Dane, it doesn't happen very often, but I established some common ground with an NFL coach here over the last 24 hours because I saw NFL network had Mike McDonald on after |
| 1:24.1 | his Seahawks championship on Monday. |
| 1:27.3 | And they pointed out to him that the NFL |
| 1:29.1 | Combine is a mere two weeks away. And he laughed very hard and said, that's unbelievable. And |
| 1:36.3 | that is exactly how I feel. The whip around from Super Bowl week to diving right into draft season |
| 1:43.9 | is always a fun one. |
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