First impressions of the 2025 rookie class
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
First impressions are pretty important in all facets of life. So what sort of first impressions did some of the youngsters across the league make in Week 1 of the preseason? Robert Mays, Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen dig into the QBs, the key offensive linemen, Travis Hunter, the rookies on the 49ers defense and more on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:35.4 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:37.5 | I'm Robert Mays. First Impress preseason is what we are digging into today. |
| 0:43.3 | I know it's been a few days since those games wrapped up, but it's given us time to really go back and study this stuff, getting to go back and watch the quarterbacks that we saw for the first time. |
| 0:52.3 | All of the rookies, JJ McCarthy, |
| 0:58.4 | getting his first action since his only preseason start from last year, only preseason action from last year. We talked about the offensive tackles that were drafted in the first round, |
| 1:02.5 | dug into a couple mid-round guards that had pretty promising preseason debuts. So we hit it |
| 1:07.5 | from every angle when it came to preseason first impressions from week one with me, |
| 1:12.1 | Dave Hellman and Derek Classen. |
| 1:13.9 | Let's get to that conversation right now. |
| 1:20.7 | First impressions are very important. |
| 1:23.0 | We hear about that in a lot of different facets of life. |
| 1:25.4 | And we got plenty of them last weekend in the NFL world. |
| 1:29.0 | A lot of rookies playing their first preseason games. |
| 1:31.3 | We got some offensive and defensive coordinators showing us what they've got for the first time. |
| 1:35.9 | So that's what we're doing today. |
| 1:37.0 | We've had a few days to marinate on the first impressions of the NFL preseason. |
| 1:42.0 | And we're going to dig through all the ones we thought were |
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