The teams with the most at stake in the 2025 NFL Draft
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
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The draft matters for all 32 teams in the NFL...but it matters for some teams more than others. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen identify the teams with the most at stake in the 2025 NFL Draft on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:35.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. I'm Robert Mays. Yesterday, we hit some mock draft stuff |
| 0:41.7 | with Danny Kelly, continued our on-the-clock series, pick seven through 12. So kind of tying in |
| 0:47.5 | the team needs with this year's prospects. A little bit later this week, we're going to be talking |
| 0:51.3 | about the running backs in this year's draft. So really into this pool of draft prospects specifically today all team wide all the time we're doing |
| 1:00.8 | something that i think we've done pretty much every year i've done this show around draft time |
| 1:05.2 | we were talking about the teams that have the most at stake in the 2025 draft this was fun fun because me and Derek talked about a bunch of different kinds of teams. |
| 1:15.5 | Inevitably, some of them are going to be the teams at the top of the draft. |
| 1:18.5 | They have really important picks. |
| 1:20.1 | They have really high picks. |
| 1:21.3 | One or multiple of them are going to be picking a quarterback. |
| 1:23.9 | But we also talked about teams that don't have a lot of picks in this draft. |
| 1:26.9 | Teams that have leveraged themselves because of where they see this group in the team building process. |
| 1:32.7 | A team like Washington is going to be involved here. We're talking about teams at pivot points a |
| 1:37.2 | little bit. Team like the San Francisco 49ers that needs a big draft and has a bunch of draft |
| 1:41.9 | capital based on where that roster sits right now. |
| 1:44.7 | So this is open-ended for a reason. |
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