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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Great show for you guys today.

One of my favorite kinds of shows to do, which is a show where I just get to ask questions to people who know more than me about a certain subject. So I'm very excited to do that with the wide receivers in this year's draft today. Two people joining me. First of all, our draft guru at the athletic. This is our first three-man pod of the draft season

because we're like semi post beast i think it's dane brugler dane how you doing man uh yeah we're

we're we're like at the two yard line there you go there you go we're that's why i said semi post

yeah yeah i have not slept yet so this will be this will be an interesting conversation. If I trail off, forgive me. But yeah, yeah, we're close. And so this will be fun. Their phrase is always, so-and-so can do this in their sleep. We're actually going to figure out if you can talk about the receivers in this draft in your sleep. We'll test that theory. Yeah. also joining us today my good good friend, Nate Tice, Nate, how you know, buddy? Doing well. I love the three man weaves, the, the, the, I also, as someone that trails off and rambles on thoughts, I feel right at home, Dane. It'll be, you'll, Robert's going to just have to, he's going to have to filter both of us then. this is just going to be a perfect show for him. But very, very excited for this. Very excited to dive into these receiver class. Rather than talk about every guy, we wanted to break this up into categories, just kind of putting different players in buckets. So I'm going to give you guys some prompts associated with this draft class, different sort of awards, superlatives, however we want to describe it.

Because I am a coward.

I am not going to give my answers to any of these.

I'm going to let you guys carry this.

And I'm hoping that as we talk about some of these specific guys, it takes us into a territory where we're having some bigger picture of conversations about the position at large,

because I think this class specifically really is going to take us into some of that territory.

So I'm excited for that, but let's get to the categories.

And I want to start it off because this class seems like one where even the guys at the top of it,

there are some question marks that come with every single one of them.

So, Dane, I wanted to ask you this first off.

Who is the consensus top 50 pick?

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