How the moves made in free agency this year affected the draft, with Dane Brugler
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
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Summary
The effects of free agency are felt long before teams take the field in September. Hopes are up in certain fanbases. Not so much in others. Teams are making plans that they couldn't consider a few weeks ago because of this player or that one. And, of course, teams can now plunge headlong into the draft knowing exactly what their needs are. So how did free agency affect the draft? Dane Brugler joins Robert Mays to dive into that question on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:36.1 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Free agency isn't over, but the big |
| 0:42.6 | names are off the board in free agency. And this is the time of year where we usually turn the page |
| 0:47.4 | and start to shift our gaze to the NFL draft. And that's exactly what we are doing today |
| 0:53.1 | with our guy, Dane Bruegler. |
| 0:55.2 | After a free agency, now that the dust has settled, we know which teams have added at certain |
| 0:59.3 | positions, we know which glaring needs have been filled with free agent dollars. |
| 1:03.7 | I wanted to talk to Dane just about how last week and how the moves last week potentially |
| 1:09.0 | alter the way that he's looking at certain teams |
| 1:11.8 | in the draft. Has it had that much of an impact? Has it not really changed what teams should |
| 1:16.4 | be looking for in the first round? So we talked about, I don't know, 10 to 12 teams on this show |
| 1:20.8 | and what free agency told us about their potential draft plans and which routes still |
| 1:26.7 | remain after some of the holes that were |
| 1:29.0 | filled in free agency. |
| 1:30.2 | So let's get to that conversation with Dane right now. |
| 1:38.7 | All right. |
| 1:39.4 | We are in the back half of free agency. |
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