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This is the athletic football show's Prospects to Pros.

Hello, welcome to Prospects to Pros. I am your host, Nate Tice.

We have a mock scenario simulator that Dane Bruggar and I are going to be doing today, where we will be looking at the top 12 picks, picks one through 12, why 12, we just pick 12. It's a nice cutoff and you'll see why. We're going to go over each and every single team, all the situations, because there's a lot, there's a lot of paths these teams can take. Might as well go over all of them. It's that time of season. It's a draft season. And to help me do that, of course, I already mentioned them,

but is the athletics draft expert himself. And in his season, Mr. Dane Bruegler, how are you doing today, Dane? I'm good. We're pre-combined. So, you know, there's a lot of this is going to change that we're going to talk about.

But there's a lot of intrigue with a lot of these picks

and what direction they could go and the quarter is going to change that we're going to talk about. But there's a lot of intrigue with a lot of

these picks and what direction they could go and the quarterbacks and how many quarterbacks

are we going to see in the top 12. So again, this stuff is going to change. Free agency will change

things. Certain decisions that need to be made between now and the draft will change things. But yeah, this is going to be a fun conversation as we kind of work through all these different scenarios. Yeah. And we're going to have a Combine primer, which NFL Combine will be in Indianapolis, as always, or at least for next year or two. We'll be there next week. Dana and I will both be there. Robert would be there. Everybody will be there from the athletic just about, it seems like. But we'll also have some shows from you from there, but a primer before and then a recap after the combine. So make sure to check that out on the athletic football shows feed and prospects to pros. But pick one, the driver's seat, the pole position, whatever you want to, both car analogies.

But we got, oh, I was going to say Caleb Williams.

We got the Chicago Bears.

The Ryan Poles position.

They're all, beautiful, beautiful.

I know, that's a New York Daily News headline.

But we got the Bears at Pick Juan via the Carolina Panthers.

Now, plenty of paths that they can go along.

But, Dane, where would you start with the Bears?

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