How much does college production matter for edge prospects?
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 26 March 2025
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Summary
We're likely to see six or seven edge players selected in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft. Some of them, like Abdul Carter, were wildly productive in college. Others, like Mykel Williams and Shemar Stewart, weren't. That reality naturally leads to this question...how much does college production matter for edge prospects when it comes to their effectiveness at the NFL level? Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Justis Mosqueda from Acme Packing Company dive deep into that question on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Justis Mosqueda
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:32.1 | Hey guys, it's Robert. Just a quick note before we get started on today's podcast. A previous |
| 0:36.2 | version of this episode mentioned former Ravens outside linebacker J.1 |
| 0:40.3 | Ferguson, who actually passed away after his second season in the NFL. |
| 0:44.4 | That was an oversight on our part. |
| 0:45.9 | We're deeply sorry about it. |
| 0:47.3 | I appreciate multiple people pointing it out to me on social media today and bringing it to our attention. |
| 0:52.2 | So again, very sorry about that happening and |
| 0:54.5 | appreciate everyone letting us know. Thank you very much. Let's get to today's show. |
| 1:02.6 | Welcome to the athletic football show. I'm Robert Mays. That's something a little bit different |
| 1:07.0 | for you guys today. We're going to have plenty of time over the next month or so to dig into |
| 1:10.6 | this draft class, prospects by position. We're doing a series of kind of mock drafts, |
| 1:16.7 | pretty much mock drafts and are on the clock series that we're doing once a week over the next |
| 1:21.0 | five weeks. I wanted to spend a little bit of time over the next five or so weeks, zooming out a |
| 1:26.2 | little bit and having some bigger picture |
| 1:27.6 | conversations around just trends or questions about how we evaluate prospects. |
| 1:33.3 | And one of the guys who is somebody that's being mocked in the top 10 is on Dane's big board |
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