Lessons learned from the 2018 NFL Draft, with Conor Orr

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Five years ago, Baker Mayfield was the first pick in the NFL Draft. Saquon Barkley was the second pick. Lamar Jackson was the last player selected in the first round. The Colts hit a home run...but at what expense? Robert Mays and Sports Illustrated's Conor Orr look back at that draft, and how it can be instructive this year and in the future, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Follow Robert on Twitter: @robertmays Follow Conor on Twitter: @ConorOrr Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Athletic Football Show.
0:05.3	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.
0:17.8	I'm Robert Mays joining me today from the MMQB, one of my favorite people to read, to
0:23.4	listen to, to talk about football with.
0:25.6	It's kind of hard, Connor.
0:26.6	Thank you very much for joining us again.
0:28.0	Thanks for having me, Robert.
0:29.2	What's going on?
0:30.2	Not a whole lot.
0:31.2	We're about a month before the draft.
0:34.4	When I sit here and think about draft coverage in general and how we want to program the show
0:38.3	in the month before the draft, there are a few different buckets that I like to fill.
0:41.4	We'll talk about the specific prospects.
0:43.6	On Friday, we talked about circumstances around quarterbacks and why that matters because
0:48.1	I think it's important to give some context on the team side of this stuff as it relates
0:52.5	to the prospects in this process.
0:55.2	But I also like doing historical lookbacks.
0:57.5	Last year, me and Barnwell did a show that I thought was a blast where we talked about
1:01.1	how the 2016 draft shaped the leak with all of the ripple effects.
1:06.0	I think the honest for that was just thinking about that Jaylin Ramsey Ezekiel Elliott sliding
1:10.1	doors moment for the Cowboys.
1:11.6	But there were so many more of those.
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