Building the Beast: Who's turning heads at the Senior Bowl?
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We're certainly in the heart of S. Bowl season. For most of us, that refers to the Super Bowl. For Dane Brugler, though? In that case, you're referring to the Shrine Bowl and the Senior Bowl. This week, Dane's travels take him to Mobile for the Senior Bowl. With practices underway, who's already catching the eye of scouts? What more is to come the rest of the week? Dane and Dave Helman get into it all on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast.
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Host: Dave Helman
Co-Host: Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Building the Beast. I am your host, Dave Hellman, and we are on |
| 0:08.0 | location this week. Dane Bruegler is on his All-Star Games circuit. He was in Dallas, |
| 0:14.1 | Fort Worth for the East West Shrine Bowl. He's currently in Mobile, Alabama for the 2026 Senior |
| 0:20.1 | Bowl. And we got a lot to get to. |
| 0:22.2 | There's prospects galore. |
| 0:23.9 | There's edge rushers. |
| 0:25.0 | There's quarterbacks worth talking about. |
| 0:27.1 | And Dane is on hand to give us a firsthand account. |
| 0:30.6 | Really fun episode with Dane. |
| 0:32.3 | Let's get right to it. |
| 0:43.7 | All right, Dane. Well, I got to to say i am incredibly jealous man because while i'm just up here freezing and coping with the end of the NFL season in chicago you're watching live football |
| 0:50.5 | you were coming to us live you were gracious enough to set up at your hotel after the |
| 0:54.7 | first day of senior bowl practice. Not only that, but you were in Frisco for Shrine Bowl practices |
| 1:00.4 | earlier this week. So I know it's not warm anywhere, but slightly warmer climates plus the |
| 1:07.6 | ability to watch some live football. It sounds pretty good to me. |
| 1:12.7 | Keywords slightly. |
| 1:19.8 | Because it is crazy how the, because usually this trip is a warm trip, but especially compared to what we're used to in the north. |
| 1:22.9 | But man, it's been a rough trip. |
| 1:24.6 | Weather-wise, so I went to Frisco. |
| 1:27.2 | I was in Friscoe for a few days for the east west |
| 1:29.0 | shrine game and actually changed my flight to get out of there a little bit earlier before the |
| 1:34.2 | storm hit because they were 70% of flights at a dfw were canceled and so tried to stay ahead of that |
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