The biggest questions heading into the 2023 NFL Draft
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🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
We can measure the distance between this moment and the start of the 2023 NFL Draft in hours, yet we still have more than our fair share of questions. Robert Mays, Nate Tice and Dane Brugler dig into top-five intrigue, Bijan Robinson, possible runs at receiver and offensive tackle, and more on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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3:00 Questions in the top five
21:00 Trading up for a QB?
24:33 Intrigue in the top 10
28:28 Intrigue outside the top 10
32:14 Bijan Robinson
37:14 The most interesting players
41:22 Wide receivers
44:04 A run on offensive tackles?
47:29 What's the big veteran trade?
50:04 Who goes earlier than expected?
53:53 Who goes later than expected?
56:37 Quick hitters
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| 0:47.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:51.8 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:53.8 | It's draft week. We're here. We made it. Last year, in the lead up to the draft, a couple days before the draft, we did a show with Dane and Nate, just the biggest questions that we had heading into the draft. I love doing it. It was fun as hell. I thought it was kind of a great appetizer and a great way to kind of get into the final |
| 1:12.2 | couple days before the draft. And guess what? I'm out of new idea. So we're doing it again. Here to dig |
| 1:18.6 | into these big questions that we have on the eve of the 2023 draft. First of all, it's our draft expert |
| 1:25.5 | at the athletic, Dan Bruegler. Dan, how you doing, buddy? Man, it feels good to be here, but these next three days are going to be long until we get to, until we get to actually that first pick. But you know what? Let's savor it because, you know, part of us will miss it next week when it's all gone. That is very true. Also joining us today, it's my good friend, Nate Tice. Nate, how are you doing, bud? I'm doing well. Yeah, Dane says that now. And then when he's opening up that Google Doc to start the Beast, 24, then he goes, oh, man, here we are again. Hello, darkness, my old friend. But no, I, I'm doing great. Excited for draft week. |
| 2:01.5 | I think I'm going to tweet the Duf Warrior from Mad Max Fury Road about 15 times |
| 2:05.6 | this week, just because that's exactly what I feel like. |
| 2:07.5 | I'm on the Fury Road. |
| 2:08.5 | Finally, we're almost there. |
| 2:10.6 | Just a heads up. |
| 2:11.7 | So you guys don't forget, we are having a live draft show. |
| 2:15.4 | Thursday night from Kansas City, 7.30 p.m. Central time, about a half hour before the draft kicks off. |
| 2:21.4 | We will be live on our YouTube channel doing all things draft. |
| 2:25.2 | We're going to have live breakdowns, full breakdowns of every pick of the first round on Thursday night. |
| 2:29.5 | And then we are going to be back on Friday doing every pick of the second and third rounds live on video from |
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