The hardest players to evaluate in the 2024 NFL Draft
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🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Robert Mays, Nate Tice and Dane Brugler chat about which players in this year’s NFL draft class are the hardest to evaluate, from running backs to defensive linemen to defensive backs. They also talk about the work that went into The Beast, the annual guide to the draft that Dane compiles for The Athletic - now available on The Athletic’s site.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome, the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.0 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:20.2 | We're going to chat |
| 0:20.9 | about some of the guys that were hardest to evaluate in this draft, the guys that were just hard to |
| 0:26.1 | pin down for one reason or another for our two resident draft experts here at the Athletic Football |
| 0:32.6 | Show. Here to help me do that. First off, it's Nate Tyson. Nate, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing well. It feels weird to be going first when our other person on this podcast has such a big day. It's basically his holiday. We'll get to that. We'll get to that. Yes. Yeah, April 10th. That's what it is. I don't know if we're going to do like the first Wednesday, the second Wednesday of every April, you know, |
| 0:54.7 | kind of like that. That's how we'll do it. But no, I'm doing very well, very excited, dig into the show. Talk about different positions, which would be very, very fun. Also joining us today, it is his day. Our draft expert here at The Athletic, it's Dan Brugler. Dan, how are you feeling today, man. I'm good. |
| 0:51.9 | It's just, it feels very, |
| 0:54.2 | it's a sign of relief to |
| 0:56.2 | just be able to share this. |
| 1:15.4 | Like, if there's something I need to tweak, there's a typo, I don't even care. |
| 1:19.8 | Just, it's out there in the world. |
| 1:21.4 | Everyone can consume it and do it with it as they please. |
| 1:26.5 | A lot of great feedback so far. that's you know the compliments um all |
| 1:31.2 | the feedback has been awesome and it makes it all worth it you know a lot of sleepless nights a lot of |
| 1:35.9 | year-round work and so you put it all into this one document this one day um but yeah so far it's |
| 1:41.8 | been it's been awesome to uh you know hear from everybody and so far so good |
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