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Zac Jackson and Friends

Early NFL Draft Talk With The Athletic's Dane Brugler

Zac Jackson and Friends

Blue Wire

Sports

4.7686 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It's too early to talk 2026 NFL Draft...unless you're a Cleveland Browns fan. Zac Jackson is joined by Dane Brugler, The Athletic's NFL Draft guru, for a rundown of the quarterback class, the offensive tackle group and some names both Browns fans and general football fans should know for the rest of the college season -- and for interesting January draft decisions. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome back to the Zach Jackson and Friends podcast. I am Zach Jackson.

0:07.9

Later on, I will be joined by Dane Bruegler. He is the athletics NFL draft guru. He is in

0:13.2

Northeast Ohioan. He's one of the stars in the business because people love the draft. People love

0:19.1

Dan's work. The beast that comes out every year is a must have.

0:23.0

For those of us who cover the draft, for those of us who absorb the draft, for

0:27.5

better or worse, it's the second straight year that around late October, early November,

0:33.5

we've had Dane here on this Brown-centric podcast to talk about the draft.

0:38.6

So there are nine games left.

0:43.2

Deep sigh, as you know, was able to make it out to the exhibition basketball game between Youngstown State and Akron out at Youngstown

0:57.5

on Wednesday night. Everybody was talking about the Browns and the trade deadline, everybody

1:04.5

being the five people that I talked to, three of my family that we went together. One, Randy,

1:10.8

who got us the tickets.

1:11.6

Shout out to him.

1:12.6

And the other being Uncle Joe.

1:13.8

Long time podcast listener, dedicated podcast listener, Uncle Joe.

1:19.4

As of now, there have been no more traits.

1:21.3

As I've written, as we've talked about here, I know I do feel like pretty strongly that one, maybe two of the group of David Nujoku, Jerome Ford, Shelby Harris, Alex Wright, will be traded. I do think that the Browns are in on discussions and ideas on other deals. I do think they would move on from Wyatt Teller or Jack Conklin in the right scenario.

1:47.0

I do not think that trading Miles Garrett right now would make a lot of sense. I think that ship kind of sailed last off season.

1:57.7

But I don't know. There are wild cards here.

2:01.5

You know, one of them is desperation that happens.

2:05.9

One of them is we don't know.

2:08.4

I mean, we all see the same product,

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