Edge rusher draft class breakdown with Dane Brugler
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The Beast is loose, and that means we get more Dane Brugler on The Athletic Football Show. It's the ultimate win-win. Dane joins Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen to break down the 2026 defensive line draft class on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Senior Producer: Katy Duffy
Social Producer: Scott Krinch
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm Robert Mays. Chatting edge rushers today with Dane Bruegler and Derek Classen. The Beast is out. Came out on Wednesday, April 8th. We spent a little bit of time chatting about that with Dane before doing some edge rushing superlatives. We hit a lot of the categories that we talked about in our receiver show. obviously, best slot is not going to apply to this group of players. |
| 0:23.3 | And so we added a couple edge rushing specific ones, but similar to the receiving group, I think |
| 0:27.8 | there's a lot of different flavors of player here and really enjoyed running through |
| 0:31.8 | these categories with me, Dane, and Derek. |
| 0:34.3 | So let's get to it right now. |
| 0:45.8 | Thank you. Dane and Derek. So let's get to it right now. It's Beast Day, and we are talking about some beasts today on the athletic football |
| 0:51.0 | show. |
| 0:51.5 | We're recording this on Wednesday, April 8th. |
| 1:11.1 | The Beast has been out now for, I don't know, seven or so hours. Dan, you're still alive. You've made it past the initial wave of people's reactions. How are you feeling right now? Feeling good. So, yeah, today's a mix of excitement, anxiety, a lot of those different things. But so far, feedback's been awesome. |
| 1:13.3 | It's been really cool to share it with everybody. |
| 1:18.4 | You know, it's a year's worth of work compiled in one document. |
| 1:21.4 | And just want to give credit to a lot of people behind the scenes. |
| 1:23.6 | I mean, you guys with the videos is awesome. |
| 1:29.6 | The art that we have up there, all the different navigation tools, the interactivity that you can do to navigate through the beast is so awesome. So a lot of good people help make, |
| 1:36.3 | bring this thing to life. Two things I'll say. One, I appreciate you letting us get our |
| 1:40.8 | grubby little hands on it. We've been trying to do some more video stuff. |
| 1:44.5 | I thought it would be fun to see if we could incorporate some of that into the fact that the |
| 1:49.1 | beast is a digital offering now. And I think that so far it looks good. You know, it's a worse |
| 1:54.2 | product because we're involved. But I do think that it adds like a dynamic layer that hopefully |
| 1:58.6 | will be cool moving forward. And the second, uh, |
| 2:01.9 | layer to it is I remember when I would spend like three weeks to a month on a feature |
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