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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

NFL Draft o-line break down with Brandon Thorn

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Sports, Football, Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Nfl, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Robert is joined by Trench Warfare owner Brandon Thorn to break down a deep 2021 NFL Draft offensive line class, from top guys like Penei Sewell, Teven Jenkins, Rashawn Slater, and Christian Darrisaw to second tier players, arm length concerns, potential positional shifts, and much more.

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0:00.0

This is the athletic football show.

0:14.3

Welcome to the athletic football show.

0:16.9

I'm Robert Mays.

0:17.9

Joining me today is my favorite person to talk about offensive wide play with.

0:22.6

Trench Warfare creator, writer, owner, Brandon Thorne.

0:27.6

Brandon, how you doing, buddy?

0:28.7

Doing great, man.

0:29.4

I'm excited to do this.

0:30.9

And it's been much anticipated on my end, that's for sure.

0:35.1

Same with me for many reasons.

0:37.4

One, it's been said often in this pre-draft process.

0:40.8

This is a deep offensive line class.

0:42.9

There are tons of guys that might be immediate starters.

0:45.7

And I was reading that consistently without having watched many of them.

0:49.0

I was going to come to it before we were going to do this.

0:51.8

I spent most of the last two days watching all of these guys.

0:54.6

It's been extremely enjoyable. I think it's a fascinating group of players. Obviously, we know

1:00.3

the names at the top, but there are a lot of really intriguing guys into the second, third round.

1:05.2

You know, your number seven offensive tackle in this class is somebody that people could talk

1:09.6

themselves into. I want to say Daniel Jeremiah tweeted earlier this week that it's a deep class according to most people, but the rankings of the tackles that are four through eight are probably all over the place. And when you watch them play, that makes total sense. So that's what we're doing today. We're going to talk about this year's offensive line class. We're going to do the tackles.

1:27.7

We're going to do the interior guys.

1:29.3

Try to stack up your top five at each position with a couple of guys that might be on the

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