This is the Athletic Football Show.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It is, I think, a first-time guest on the Athletic Football Show, potentially, which is insane, and there's 100% on me. But absolutely one of the people that I wanted to chat about this draft with, one of the wonderful draft analysts at ESPN, and really, Jack of All Trade, doing a little bit of everything over there. It's my good friend, Field Yates. Feels how you doing, buddy? I'm doing great. We've done content together in other places, probably other platforms as well. We've probably, I don't know, probably done live shows or, I don't know, collaborated on written pieces or something. But I'm glad to be on the show, humbled and honored. You guys have been churning out content for the past. Lord knows how long, but especially during this pre-draft cycle, it's been awesome to see. And you guys crushed it over this past weekend. Obviously, I'm sure you didn't see a whole lot of my draft coverage live and vice versa, but I've been able to catch up on some clips and knowing the amount of effort that you and Nate, of course, Dane put into the NFL draft, I know it was absolutely spectacular work. How did your first draft go in this new

role? Because this is, it's like, you know, it's clicked up a little bit for you in a good way.

I'm not much of a self-scouter, I don't think, not a very good one at least.

You know, I had probably a fear more than anything else of a player coming across the ticker

or being announced in Detroit.

And I just had, imagining to myself, I have no idea who this player is.

Like, I haven't heard that name before.

I didn't see his name mentioned anywhere once.

That didn't happen.

So that was good.

You know, Dane and the Beast, that is like as comprehensive of a resource as there is during

the pre-draft cycle.

And I saw him say after the fact that all players picked were mentioned in the Beast.

And I was like, yeah, and water is wet and the sun rises again today. Like, of course, all players picked were mentioned in the beast and I was like yeah and water is wet and the sun

rises again today like of course all players are mentioned in the beast I was mentioned in the

beast and I graduated from college 15 years ago and was a terrible division three safety and somehow

I made it into the beast so no surprise at all 257 also made it into this year's edition

it's fun because we record our round three or our day three recap as the draft is happening just to get a little bit ahead of it. I think we can start. We can get going a little bit before Mr. Relevant comes off the board, but we're always recording when the draft ends. And you just see a little sigh of relief from Dane when he realizes that all the players that were drafted ended up being in the beast. And I think there was, I can't remember which player it was, but when we were recording, it was either the late sixth round or early seventh round, and this corner from some small school came off the board. And I was like, what do you think about this guy, Dan? And he just gave me like 90 seconds on the guy off the dome, like right as we were recording. So the work that you guys put into

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