Dart throws from the 2026 NFL Draft that will actually make a difference
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Let's be honest, a lot of sixth and seventh round NFL Draft picks never come back into our consciousness after draft night...but a few are primed to actually make a difference for their teams in the 2027 season. Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen discuss the picks that could see the field and make an impact on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Timestamps are approximate:
0:00 Welcome to the show
3:11 Bryce Boettcher
8:35 George Gumbs Jr
9:18 Caden Curry
11:21 Deion Burks
13:33 Demond Claiborne
17:00 Merch design contest
18:24 Kaleb Elarms-Orr
21:43 Aiden Fisher
25:45 Kamari Ramsey
31:57 Malik Benson
36:28 Joshua Josephs
40:10 Taylen Green
45:47 Kage Casey
50:37 Justin Joly & Dallen Bentley
54:51 Tanner Koziol
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Senior Producer: Katy Duffy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. I am Dave Hellman and today we're talking dart throws, |
| 0:06.0 | specifically late additions in the 2026 NFL draft. I think we'll say day three. We might |
| 0:12.3 | have snuck a couple day two draft prospects in here, but for the most part, Derek Klesson |
| 0:18.3 | and I today are taking a look at sneaky draft editions that we were really excited about. |
| 0:24.2 | It's easy to focus on the first round, the top 50 guys, and forget about some of the late picks that are made during the NFL draft. |
| 0:31.7 | But every season we find somebody finds a hidden gym, a surprising breakout player on day three of the draft. So Derek |
| 0:39.9 | and I wanted to go through day three, refresh ourselves on who was taken, and maybe find some |
| 0:45.4 | fits for late round draft picks we're really excited to see in 2026. Really fun conversation |
| 0:51.1 | with Derek and myself talking day three prospects. |
| 0:54.9 | Let's get right to it. |
| 1:05.5 | All right, Derek, a really perfect show for late May and a really perfect show for the two of us because we're just |
| 1:11.4 | going to talk about late draft picks that we can get ourselves really excited about. |
| 1:16.5 | Like real offseason sicko stuff trying to find playing time for fifth and sixth round |
| 1:21.8 | picks. What could be better? Well, and this is better than doing it because we do a little bit |
| 1:25.8 | of this during the draft, right? And like during day three right after. |
| 1:28.7 | But a lot of that is usually like our favorite prospects. Where did they land? Oh, they're going to make it work by yada yada. This is a little bit more like, okay, who are actually the players that have some sort of path to go and play? And also I think that they can make an impact. So it's like a little bit of a different exercise that I had a lot of fun trying to go |
| 1:46.2 | through like, where are the open spots for playing time? |
| 1:49.5 | And like, who actually has an avenue to get onto the field early? |
| 1:52.4 | I've said this before, but it's also just a useful exercise to go back and look at everybody's |
| 1:57.4 | draft class because especially remember, we were live reacting to day three |
| 2:02.3 | and we're talking about wise Garrett Nussmeyer falling and what's going on with this other guy |
| 2:07.7 | how do you feel about that pick and eventually you just get to a point where you're tuning out |
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