Patriots Draft Countdown: Day 1 of the NFL Scouting Combine With Eliot Wolf, Dane Brugler & Jordan Reid
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
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Tune-in as Matt Smith and Evan Lazar report from the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana for Day 1 of media access. We discuss the latest news coming out of the Combine as it relates to the Patriots. We sit down with Patriots Executive VP of Player Personnel Eliot Wolf to discuss Patriots offseason plans for free agency and the draft, as well as looking back on the performance of the 2025 Draft class. Plus, we are joined by Dane Brugler from The Athletic and ESPN's Jordan Reid to discuss the prospects that best fit with New England's needs and potential pick at 31.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Patriots Draft Countdown presented by Bud Light, easy to drink. |
| 0:04.0 | Easy to enjoy Bud Light, the official beer sponsor of the New England Patriots. Nat Smith joined with Evan Lazar. It's a 40th year at the Combine for the NFL here in Indianapolis. Evan set the scene for us as we're here. Yeah, you know, today I thought was a really good kickoff to the week here with Elliot Wolfe talking to us this morning. And I think at this point in |
| 0:22.5 | the Combine, there's a lot of conversations that are going on, you know, behind the scenes that we don't |
| 0:28.1 | necessarily see. And then as we get into Wednesday and Thursday, the prospects start to arrive. And then it |
| 0:34.1 | kind of shifts more to the interviews, the medicals, the things that go on at Lucas Oil Stadium later on in the week. |
| 0:41.0 | But for these couple of days, it's kind of just like a summit of all the decision makers |
| 0:45.5 | in the NFL are in one place kind of waiting around until the real action starts. |
| 0:50.2 | And it's a lot of, frankly, a lot of deals get made at this time of the year. |
| 0:55.1 | As Evan mentioned, Elliot Wolf met with the media today here at the convention center |
| 0:59.4 | in Indianapolis. |
| 1:00.2 | And after that meeting with the press, Elliott joined us for this podcast. |
| 1:04.6 | Here's the conversation. |
| 1:06.2 | And we're pleased to be joined by executive vice president of player personnel, Elliot |
| 1:09.4 | Wolf, Matt Smith, along with Evan and Lazare. Thanks for joining us, Elliot. Thanks for having it. Not your traditional travel |
| 1:16.2 | setup to get to Indianapolis. It needs a breeze to get to, except for maybe this year. No, I feel |
| 1:21.2 | bad too, because I was kind of talking tough to my wife the day that, you know, there's a storm coming, |
| 1:25.4 | like, don't worry, I'll just go a day later you know and then |
| 1:28.6 | it ended up being we left a day and a half early 6 a m flight and uh you know flew to detroit and |
| 1:35.3 | five hour drive down and i'm glad you guys made it too yeah there's always a tough conversation with the |
| 1:40.2 | misses when you're like we're gonna have to add an extra full day onto this. |
| 1:44.5 | But when I saw you there, I was like, all right, we're all in the same boat. |
| 1:48.2 | So I have no excuse. |
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