This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

Today's Monday, April 4th.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today, it's athletic staff writer Nate Tice. Nate, how you April 4th. I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today, it's athletic staff

writer Nate Tice. Nate, how you doing, buddy? I'm feeling very official. I feel like this is a whole

new age for us, but yes, I'm very excited to be joining the athletic full time. Still listening to

the same church's song before we podcast. That hasn't changed about me, but I'm very

excited. We just had an extended church's conversation before we started recording about their career

trajectory. Yours kind of mirrors theirs. Just very fast, very deserved though. I'm very proud

of you, buddy. And I'm so happy that you're a part of this full time now. I'm going to ruin your

life with how much I'm going to bug you to do stuff for the show.

So it's fantastic. People can read you now on The Athletic. You're going to be doing a ton of draft coverage for the site. Nothing is going to change with how often you're on this show. If anything, you're going to be on it more. So anybody that's worried about that, don't be. A little bit later on today's show, Deontay Lee, who also is a newly minted

athletic staff writer, is going to be joining us a little bit later.

Our idea for today's show was to do this year's draft class, was to look at this year's

draft class and just the NFL draft in general through the lens of some schematic trends in the NFL. So where the league is going, how does this group of players and prospects intersect with that? We were going to do the offensive side of the ball with you and then chat about the defensive side of the ball with Deonti. He knows actual things about defense like we don't. So it's great to be able to pick his brain all the time now. So we're going to get to Deontay a little bit later. Unfortunately, or fortunately, however you want to look at it, we have some news to dig into right before we started recording. Of course. At least it was before we started recording this time and not after. Big time news with a trade in this year's draft.

Not surprisingly, two teams known for doing this are trading up and down.

The Saints trade up in the 2022 draft.

They get number 16, number 19, and number 194 from the Eagles,

who now get 18 101, a 2023 firstround pick, and a 2024 second-round pick.

That's a lot.

So pretty simply here, the Eagles have traded away one of their first-round picks to the Saints, essentially,

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