Dane Brugler's updated Top 50: Arvell Reese, Ty Simpson top the list
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Ah yes, the familiar hallmarks of mid-November. Leaves falling off trees, Thanksgiving preparations being made, and Dane Brugler's updated Top 50. Dane and Dave Helman dig into the new Top 50 on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast. The guys discuss Arell Reese and Ty Simpson up top, the biggest risers and fallers, the unique challenges of the 2026 class, and a whole lot more.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
4:44 Arvell Reese and Ty Simpson at the top
15:27 The other quarterbacks in the top 50
31:22 Making sense at the top
36:12 Cornerback class
54:31 Wide receiver class
1:00:00 The biggest fallers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to an all new episode of Building the Beast. |
| 0:05.8 | I am Dave Hellman and we have got a good one for y'all today. |
| 0:09.5 | Maybe you noticed. |
| 0:10.4 | Maybe you didn't. |
| 0:11.2 | If you didn't, please go check it out. |
| 0:13.1 | Dane Bruegler has released his updated top 50 for this 2025 college football season. |
| 0:18.4 | The new top 50 prospects of this college season, having watched two thirds, three quarters of the |
| 0:25.8 | season, you know, got a few weeks left to play before the end of the regular season. |
| 0:29.8 | Dane put out his initial top 50 in August. |
| 0:32.6 | We broke it down then. |
| 0:34.0 | Now we look at the new list, what's changed, What hasn't? Who has risen? And believe me, |
| 0:39.2 | there are a few big climbers in this updated top 50. Really fun conversation with Dane. Of course, |
| 0:45.9 | we hit the quarterbacks. But in addition, took a look through everything else. What is new and |
| 0:50.7 | interesting about his top 50? Really great let's get into it and joining me |
| 1:01.0 | now as he always does my friend my counterpart my Sherpa in this draft process and |
| 1:08.4 | Dane buddy I'm excited for this one, man. |
| 1:12.0 | I look forward to to your top 50s, your draft boards. |
| 1:17.2 | Obviously, the beast will eventually come out, which is a draft Christmas experience. |
| 1:23.3 | So we've got our midseason top 50 today. |
| 1:26.2 | Lot to dig into. |
| 1:28.0 | Let's start with just a simple question. |
| 1:31.1 | Is it more like of a relief to hit a milestone like this? |
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