Building the Beast Senior Bowl Recap: Winners, takeaways, and effects on the draft
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
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Summary
College football's all-star game season has come to an end, with the Senior Bowl now in the rear-view mirror. Who were the big winners from the week? How will their performances affect the 2026 NFL Draft? Dane Brugler and Dave Helman dive in on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast.
Host: Dave Helman
Co-Host: Dane Brugler
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a new episode of Building the Beast. An early episode, it is obviously Super Bowl |
| 0:09.0 | week. And while we prepare for Patriots and Seahawks, we are getting our Senior Bowl recap out |
| 0:15.7 | of the way. Dane Bruegler, our intrepid draft analyst, was in Frisco the east west shrine bowl he was in mobile for the |
| 0:23.5 | senior bowl we got a lot to discuss coming out of the all-star games who impressed who won senior |
| 0:30.3 | bowl week whose stock is up we're going to hit on all of that as an early primer plenty of |
| 0:37.1 | super bowl week content coming your way in the feed. |
| 0:39.7 | Don't worry. |
| 0:40.3 | But here at the beginning of the week as we settle in to San Francisco for Super Bowl |
| 0:45.9 | 60, a senior bowl recap episode of Building the Beast. |
| 0:50.3 | Let's jump right into it. |
| 0:56.1 | Well, Dane, I can use my journalistic skills to deduce that you have traded in the hotel |
| 1:02.4 | for your home office, which must mean that the All-Star Game Circuit has concluded, |
| 1:08.0 | how are your travels? And I got to to imagine it's always easier to do this from |
| 1:12.5 | home base that rather than you know setting your your laptop up on the hotel room microwave so |
| 1:18.8 | you can podcast remote right and this is also the time of year where i question my life choices |
| 1:25.8 | to live where i do um I landed in Cleveland Thursday night |
| 1:30.8 | is negative 6 degrees without the wind chill. First thing I did, we land. I hit that auto start to my |
| 1:38.0 | truck on the app. Get out to the parking lot, just buried in snow. I'll send you a picture. So I love my |
| 1:46.4 | scouting trips. I love them. But between the ice and Dallas, the cold temps in Mobile, |
| 1:51.4 | because it was chilly sitting there during practice, and then Planet Hoth waiting for me when I |
| 1:56.4 | got back home, I am more than happy to be back at home base now for a few weeks before hitting the road |
| 2:04.2 | and going to the combine. But yeah, now it's kind of like a tag team. Tag, you're at your turn |
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