How the moves made in free agency this year affected the draft, with Dane Brugler

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The effects of free agency are felt long before teams take the field in September. Hopes are up in certain fanbases. Not so much in others. Teams are making plans that they couldn't consider a few weeks ago because of this player or that one. And, of course, teams can now plunge headlong into the draft knowing exactly what their needs are. So how did free agency affect the draft? Dane Brugler joins Robert Mays to dive into that question on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Host: Robert Mays Co-Host: Derrik Klassen 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 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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0:33.9	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.
0:36.1	I'm Robert Mays.
0:37.4	Free agency isn't over, but the big names are off the board in free agency. And this is the time of year where we usually turn the page and start to shift our gaze to the NFL draft. And that's exactly what we are doing today with our guy, Dane Bruegler. After a free agency, now that the dust is settled,
0:55.3	we know which teams have added at certain positions, we know which glaring needs have been
0:59.6	filled with free agent dollars. I wanted to talk to Dane just about how last week and how the
1:05.1	moves last week potentially alter the way that he's looking at certain teams in the draft.
1:10.7	Has it had that much of an impact?
1:12.1	Has it not really changed what teams should be looking for in the first round?
1:15.5	So we talked about, I don't know, 10 to 12 teams on this show and what free agency told
1:20.6	us about their potential draft plans and which routes still remain after some of the
1:26.2	holes that were filled in free agency. So let's get to that
1:28.9	conversation with Dane right now.
1:36.3	All right. We are in the back half of free agency. The first big wave of free agency is over
1:43.3	about this time every year.
1:46.0	Right around St. Patrick's Day, just past St. Patrick's Day is when I start to turn
1:50.6	like the eye of Saur onto the draft.
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