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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Great show for you guys today.

It's draft time.

We've officially turned the page to draft coverage at the athletic football show.

And around this time every year, I need a crash course in the draft because I've been spending most of my time, almost the entire offseason, looking at free agents and what the veteran

player movement is looking like in the NFL, while other people have spent their time boning

up on the prospects, who's good, who's not, what this class looks like. It is a necessary education

for me every single year. So to give me that education, we're tag team in this this year with two guys who

know a hell of a lot more about this than I do.

First off, the host of the Andy Staples show and prospects to pros on this feed, one of

our wonderful college football writers at the athletic, Andy Staples. Andy, thanks for doing this, buddy. My pleasure, Robert. My pleasure. Also joining us today, a fantastic member of our draft coverage team here at the Athletic. It's Nick Baumgartner, who I think this is your first time on the show? I'm not sure. Maybe. I hey, this is the perfect time, though, if it is,

because this is the idiot's guide. And I mean, hey, look, I am an idiot who guys you found two idiots.

I am the idiot. I am the idiot. I am the idiot. I always feel a little bit bad when I go to the

combine every year about how little I know about the prospects. But then I'll talk to head coach of X team and I'll ask him about a guy. He's like, I have no idea who that is. I've never watched him. I have absolutely no idea who that is. So it always makes me feel a little bit better. And now this is the right time. You know, this is, it's March 27th. We've got about five weeks until the draft,

and this is where we're at. So I'm very excited to dig into this. We're going to talk about this

subject specifically more in depth on Tuesday with Nate and I, but I feel like we have to start

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