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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Top 10 mock draft with The Athletic NFL Staff

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Sports, Football, Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Nfl, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

With the NFL Draft less than one week away, Robert Mays teams up with The Athletic’s beat writers for a top 10 mock draft. Which QB with the 49ers take at No. 3? Do the Bengals go WR or OL? Who will land Kyle Pitts? Tune in to hear Lindsay Jones, Connor Hughes, Matt Barrows, Tori McElhaney, Paul Dehner Jr., Josh Tolentino, Chris Burke, Joe Person, Nick Kosmider and Jon Machota break it all down. 


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0:00.0

This is the athletic football show.

0:15.8

Welcome to the athletic football show.

0:18.6

Fun, different show for you guys today.

0:20.6

We're going to have 10 athletic writers on to do the top 10 mock draft.

0:25.8

We got into the thinking behind each pick, but also just some big picture of philosophy

0:30.3

questions about each team.

0:32.0

Really enjoyed this.

0:32.9

Before we dig into it, though, I wanted to remind you guys Thursday, round one, me, Nate Tice, Lindsay Jones, Dane Bruegler going to be coming to you live starting with about the 15th pick in the first round. Nate and I will be together in Chicago. Every time I say that, it puts a smile on my face. I can't wait to do something in person. Dane and Lindsay will be joining us periodically throughout the first round. We're going to tweet this out a million times between now and then. But you can look forward on Twitter. You can look forward on YouTube. Hopefully you'll be getting a push notification on the athletic app. So just keep your eyes open over the next week or so. We'd love if you'd come hang out, enjoy the draft with us.

1:11.4

But right now, I'm very excited to get the mock draft started.

1:14.6

Let's do it.

1:17.7

All right.

1:18.8

The Athletic Football Show, 2021 mock draft has officially opened.

1:24.3

And the Jacksonville Jaguars are on the clock.

1:26.1

We do not have a Jaguars rider at the athletic.

1:47.6

So to handle this drama-filled selection, so many different guys could go here. We had to bring on Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, thank you for doing this. We appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me. I am thrilled to be first. I've been pitching in on a lot of our Arizona Cardinals coverage. So this is really fun to branch out, move over to the Jags for a little while.

1:50.0

But yeah, not a ton of drama.

1:51.7

So is there a drum roll?

1:53.7

Do I get to how are we going to do this?

1:54.9

Just let me have it.

1:55.6

Who are you picking?

1:58.0

Who are the Jags picking with the number one overall pick?

1:59.2

All right.

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