The most polarizing players in the 2025 NFL Draft
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🗓️ 9 April 2025
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Summary
Everyone likes Travis Hunter and Abdul Carter. There's a widespread consensus that Cam Ward deserves to be the top quarterback on the board. After that, though, opinions vary more so than in most drafts in recent memory. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dane Brugler dig into the players driving that disagreement on this episode of The Athletic Football Show, breaking down the most polarizing players in the 2025 NFL Draft.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.5 | Today, it is the most polarizing players in the 2025 NFL draft. |
| 0:12.1 | This is a list curated by Dane Brugler, one of our guests today, along with Derek |
| 0:16.3 | Klesson, just guys who the opinions on them is kind of all over the place. |
| 0:20.6 | You know, we've got guys like Will Howard where Thanes talk to some teams that have a second round grade on him, the quarterback from Ohio State. There are other teams that have a sixth round grade on him. There's another player, Sabian Williams from TCU. We talked about that some teams don't even have him rated as a wide receiver in this draft. He's kind of a more |
| 0:38.4 | amorphous position than that. So what do you do with a player like that? We do deep on seven |
| 0:44.1 | players that have a bunch of different opinions about them. And it's hard to square exactly where |
| 0:50.3 | the league and the draft community comes down on these guys. |
| 0:59.1 | Really enjoyed this conversation with Derek and Dane, just trying to parse what we're talking about with these prospects specifically. |
| 1:02.1 | There's some edge rushers that would have fallen into this conversation, but we're going |
| 1:05.5 | to hit an entire show on the defensive linemen and edge rushers tomorrow with our buddy Fran Duffy from PHLY. |
| 1:12.6 | So guys like Mikel Williams, Jalen Walker, we're going to save the polarizing discussions |
| 1:17.0 | for those guys for tomorrow. |
| 1:19.1 | One quick note before we get into this show, actually two quick notes. |
| 1:23.3 | First of all, it is Wednesday morning. |
| 1:25.3 | It is April 9th. |
| 1:26.4 | The Beast is Live. |
| 1:27.4 | It is available. Please go check it out. We chat with is April 9th. The Beast is live. It is available. |
| 1:28.5 | Please go check it out. |
| 1:29.4 | We chat with Dana a little bit about that at the top of the show, but just wanted to remind |
| 1:33.0 | you guys as often as we can. |
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