On the Clock, picks 13-18: Teams chasing needs, teams chasing dreams
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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We're back On the Clock on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Ben Solak from ESPN joins Robert Mays to make picks 13 through 18 in the 2025 NFL Draft. That covers first-round picks for the Dolphins, Colts, Falcons, Cardinals, Bengals and Seahawks. The Dolphins and Bengals get some offensive line help! The Falcons take another swing at ending the John Abraham bit! The Seahawks bring in another receiver for Sam Darnold! Come and join the draft fun.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Ben Solak
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:36.2 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:38.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:39.5 | Today is our next installment of On the Clock with my friend Ben Solac from ESPN. |
| 0:44.6 | For those of you who are not familiar with the concept, we broke the first round into five chunks. |
| 0:50.0 | Picks 1 through 6, 7 through 12. |
| 0:51.5 | Today is 13 through 18. |
| 0:53.8 | I give Ben three options. |
| 0:56.5 | He chooses one of them for this team. |
| 0:59.3 | And this is the pick that he would make, not the pick he thinks the team would make. |
| 1:04.7 | We list off who has been drafted at the top of the pod. |
| 1:07.6 | So if you guys want a little bit of context, who's still on the board, you can listen to that when we dig into it. But that is the game. We'll get into that with Ben |
| 1:15.3 | in a quick second. First, a tiny bit of housekeeping. One, the beast is out on Wednesday, |
| 1:21.6 | 6 a.m. Eastern, Wednesday, April 9th, Danes, Magnum Opus that he does every single year, hundreds of draft |
| 1:30.2 | profiles, just the best product on the market around draft time. |
| 1:34.2 | That will be available for you guys on Wednesday. |
| 1:36.6 | Same PDF form that it's always been available in, but also this year we have a very cool |
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