The most polarizing players in the 2025 NFL Draft

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

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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 Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social Follow Derrik on Bluesky: @qbklass.bsky.social Follow Dane on Bluesky: @danebrugler.bsky.social Follow Robert on X: @robertmays Follow Derrik on X: @QBKlass Follow Dane on X: @dpbrugler 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dane Bruegler. I cover the NFL draft for the athletic.
0:04.0	Our draft guide picked up the name The Beast because of the crazy amount of information that's included.
0:10.0	I'm looking at thousands of players putting together hundreds of scouting reports.
0:14.0	I've been covering this year's draft since last year's draft.
0:17.0	There is a lot in the Beast that you simply can't find anywhere else.
0:25.6	You can get the beast and all the great coverage my colleagues do by subscribing to The Athletic. You can do that at theathletic.com slash subscribe.
0:33.9	Welcome to The Athletic Football Show.
0:36.1	I'm Robert Mays.
0:37.1	Today, it is the most polarizing players in the 2025 NFL draft. This is a list curated by Dane Bruegler, one of our guests today, along with Derek Classen, just guys who the opinions on them is kind of all over the place. We've got guys like Will Howard where Dane's talked to some teams that have a
0:55.1	second round grade on him, the quarterback from Ohio State.
0:57.8	There are other teams that have a six round grade on him.
1:00.4	There's another player, Sabian Williams from TCU.
1:03.1	We talked about that some teams don't even have him rated as a wide receiver in this
1:07.9	draft.
1:08.3	He's kind of a more amorphous position than that.
1:11.0	So what do you do with a player like that?
1:13.3	We do deep on seven players that have a bunch of different opinions about them.
1:18.4	And it's hard to square exactly where the league and the draft community comes down on these guys.
1:25.0	Really enjoyed this conversation with Derek and Dane, just trying to parse what we're
1:29.7	talking about with these prospects specifically.
1:32.7	There's some edge rushers that would have fallen into this conversation, but we're going
1:36.1	to hit an entire show on the defensive linemen and edge rushers tomorrow with our buddy
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