The 2026 NFL Draft prospects you're wrong about...and why
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Look, we get it. We're wrong sometimes too. But there are at least seven NFL Draft prospects that you, draft analysts, or NFL teams are just plain wrong about. On this episode of The Athletic Football Show, we're correcting those wrong narratives and incorrect evaluations. Bruce Feldman joins Dave Helman and Robert Mays to set you on the right course.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Senior Producer: Katy Duffy
Social Producer: Scott Krinch
Guest: Bruce Feldman
Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social
Follow Dave on Bluesky: @davehelman.bsky.social
Follow Robert on X: @RobertMays
Follow Dave on X: @DaveHelman_
Theme song: Haunted
Written by Dylan Slocum, Trevor Dietrich, Ruben Duarte, Kyle McAulay, and Meredith VanWoert / Performed by Spanish Love Songs
Courtesy of Pure Noise / By arrangement with Bank Robber Music, LLC
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:02.9 | Got a fun one on tap today. |
| 0:04.7 | We're talking about the NFL draft through a college football lens on this show. |
| 0:08.8 | We have fantastic college football writers and reporters that work for the athletic, |
| 0:12.9 | including the legendary Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:15.3 | Bruce joined us today with Dave Hellman to do a show that we've kind of done in the past, |
| 0:19.5 | and that's talking about guys |
| 0:21.0 | who are part of this draft class through the lens of what they were as college players. |
| 0:24.9 | I feel like as we move through the draft process, we get these warped conversations that can |
| 0:30.6 | happen about guys that kind of gets away from what they were as actual football players in college. |
| 0:36.6 | And so it's always fun to chat with people who see it through that college football lens |
| 0:41.2 | and watch these guys week to week and get their take on what the draft discourse has become. |
| 0:47.3 | So that's what we're doing today. |
| 0:48.7 | Bruce and Dave, both of whom are watching college football every week, are thinking about it as college football fans. |
| 0:54.0 | I wanted to ask them about about eight players that they think the draft industrial complex |
| 1:00.2 | and the conversation through the draft process has gotten wrong with some of these guys. |
| 1:05.9 | We talked about seven or eight guys today that Bruce and Dave just think we haven't been |
| 1:10.1 | talking about correctly |
| 1:11.4 | as we have moved through the draft process. Really enjoyed this one. Thank you guys will as well. |
| 1:16.2 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:27.4 | I'm very excited about today's show. You know I'm excited when I'm very excited about today's show. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.