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NFC South 2025 NFL Draft RECAP | The Audible

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🗓️ 17 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The NFC South brought the fireworks in the 2025 NFL Draft—and The Audible crew is here to break it all down! 🧨

Sigmund Bloom and Cecil Lammey dive into every team’s haul, including:
🐦 Falcons land Georgia LB Jalen Walker to anchor the defense
🐾 Panthers give Bryce Young a big-time weapon in Tetairoa McMillan
⚜️ Saints take a shot at their future QB with Tyler Shough
🏴‍☠️ Buccaneers may have found a WR1 of the future in Emeka Egbuka

Plus:
🔍 Which sleeper UDFA signings deserve attention?
📈 Who could be fantasy-relevant sooner than expected?
🔥 Who nailed it—and who missed the mark?

It’s all here in your go-to recap of the NFC South’s 2025 draft class!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

draft recap shows continue here on the audible cecil lamie sigman bloom going through the nfc south

0:06.1

today and that includes Atlanta the hot lana falcons with a handful of picks sigman but a handful of

0:13.3

really good picks and some pass rushing help some defensive help and an offensive tackle so let's get

0:18.5

to it jalen walker first first rounder, Georgia linebacker

0:22.1

there. You want a Georgia defender? Go get you a Jalen Walker. That's a good sign for Atlanta who

0:27.1

double dips in that first round, getting James Pierce, Tennessee Edge player there as well,

0:33.0

certainly has burst to the quarterback, gets off the ball quickly there as well, needs to add some

0:37.2

strength to

0:37.7

his frame he should do that in a pro weight program no second rounder so we go to the third round

0:42.8

where it's Xavier watts Notre Dame safety fourth round billy bowman junior oklahoma safety and then

0:49.1

the seventh round is well a wisconsin offensive tackle yes please jack Jack Nelson to round things out for the Falcons.

0:56.3

The Falcons drafting like a team with some urgency.

0:59.8

It's not necessarily now or never for Terry Fontno, but the pieces are in place.

1:05.6

And this is a draft that reflects a team that's self-scouting and saying,

1:09.1

what do we need?

1:09.8

Maybe we're not one player away, but one unit away, or what elements are we really lacking in? And you can see,

1:16.2

like you said, sees pass rush. Jalen Walker falls to the 15th pick. Some had him six, some had him

1:20.5

eighth. He can play some off-ball linebacker, a smaller edge, but certainly can generate some pass rush, at least as a blitzer.

1:32.7

And then, and you see with a play like Caden Ellis, the Falcons have had some success with that linebacker edge tweener.

1:34.6

And just a pure edge in Pierce.

1:38.0

And Matt Batante, in his inimitable way on our live show, sees, because there's character

1:43.1

questions about Pierce. He said it's more like a

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