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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Takeaways from the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

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

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Another combine is in the books, and with its closing comes another set of results that will affect the upcoming NFL Draft. Among them? Hello, Sonny Styles and Kenyon Sadiq. Dane Brugler and Dave Helman go a whole lot deeper than that on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast.


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Host: Dave Helman

Co-Host: Dane Brugler

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of Building the Beast.

0:05.6

I am Dave Hellman.

0:06.9

Dane Bruegler and I are fresh off the NFL combine.

0:10.8

Dane literally drove in on Sunday and was like, I got notes.

0:15.3

I got stuff.

0:16.1

I am bursting to talk about.

0:17.7

We need to talk about these workouts.

0:19.5

And that's exactly what we did. We basically went through Thursday all the way through Sunday. Talk about. We need to talk about these workouts. And that's exactly what we did. We basically

0:21.4

went through Thursday all the way through Sunday, talked about the big winners, maybe the guys that

0:28.0

left a little bit out there and the guys who just didn't do anything as participation at the

0:32.8

combine. Definitely something worth talking about. A really jam-packed episode as we put the combine behind us and the real meat of

0:41.6

draft season can get going.

0:43.1

Now we know who everybody is.

0:44.7

From here on out, we can just argue about how to slot them.

0:47.8

But first, let's break down everything we learned at the NFL Combine.

0:51.4

Really fun episode with myself and Dane.

0:53.8

Let's do it.

0:57.8

I got to tell you, Dane, it's surreal being back with you on Zoom, considering we just spent

1:03.3

the week together. But I very much felt like we were ships passing in the night. Like we had dinner

1:08.5

together. We had a couple conversations over the course of the week,

1:11.7

but by and large, you are the busiest man in Indianapolis with all the people that require your

1:18.0

attention. And I'm trying to do the athletic football show things. I've got shows with Robert and

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