Building the Beast: John Mateer's big day, top-50 stock watch, Armand Membou's NFL debut, and more
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🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Week 2 of the college football season may not have had the marquee matchups that Week 1 did, but it still gave Dave Helman and Dane Brugler more than enough to talk about from an NFL Draft perspective. The guys dig into John Mateer's big day against Michigan, Sawyer Robertson's second straight strong showing against a power four team, Jordyn Tyson's hot start to the season, and a whole lot more on this episode of Building the Beast on The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
5:12 Game Ball: Oklahoma QB John Mateer
12:40 Game Ball: Oregon QB Dante Moore
18:40 Sawyer Robertson leads another big week for Baylor's draft prospects
28:45 I Was Not Familiar with Your Game: Cincinnati LB Jake Golday
34:23 Prospect Snapshot: Louisville WR Chris Bell
38:38 Prospect Snapshot: Texas A&M EDGE Cashius Howell
42:21 Top-50 Stock Watch: Sam Leavitt and Jordyn Tyson
46:13 Top-50 Stock Watch: USC WRs Makai Lemon and WR Ja’Kobi Lane
50:04 Top-50 Stock Watch: Iowa State DT Dominique Orange vs. Iowa C Logan Jones
56:40 NFL Rookie Watch: Browns LB Carson Schwesinger and Jets OT Armand Membou
1:05:33 Week 3 CFB preview
Host: Dave Helman
Co-Host: Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 1:17.3 | Welcome in to another episode of Building the Beast. |
| 1:20.3 | I am Dave Hellman and each week during this college football season, Dane Bruegler and myself are building the beast, his much anticipated annual |
| 1:29.0 | NFL draft guide. We are reacting to all the biggest matchups, all the biggest performances in the |
| 1:35.3 | college game as we put together this 2026 NFL draft class. Really fun discussion coming out of |
| 1:43.5 | week two of the college season, which as we're |
| 1:45.7 | going to get into, I at least had my doubts that that would be the case. I shouldn't have. |
| 1:50.9 | College football is good for that. It is good for the surprise weekend, even when you don't |
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| 2:03.7 | was in week two, but looking forward to a really loaded week three in college football. Also, |
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