Welcome to a new episode of Building the Beast.

I am your host, Dave Hellman, and this is really what I dreamed about when I knew I was going to be doing a podcast with Dan Bruegler.

The show's called Building the Beast.

Of course, we're going to talk about the major prospects and the movement at the top of the NFL draft.

But we want to do a

podcast for people who want to know about hand sizes for day three tight ends. Like that is who we

want to talk to and what we want to talk about. And that's exactly what we did today. As we

inch closer to the 2026 NFL draft, as we get closer to the actual release of the Beast.

If you're listening to this right now, we are two weeks out from the release of Dane's annual

draft guide on April 8th. Keep an eye out for it. And with that approaching, we want to dive into

the actual positions. And what better place to start than one of the most loaded tight-in classes I can remember in my time covering the NFL draft.

Dana and I had a blast going through as many prospects as we possibly could.

We talked about the top guys, you know, the first round picks, the top 50 picks, but we spent a solid chunk of this show

working through just a log jam of day three tight ends, a really, really fun conversation

for our draft next. Let's get right to it.

Well, Dan, I got to tell you, I'm really excited for today's episode, man, because we call this Building the Beast.

And if you've ever looked at The Beast, the digital copy, which is wonderful now, I have like 10 of the old paperbound copies still in my files somewhere.

They weigh like 30 pounds every time I have to move.

It's terrible.

But the whole point of the beast is that every prospect is in there.

And when I knew we were going to do this show, I wanted to make sure that we got real sicko

with it and real granular with it.

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