Dane Brugler
NFL Draft Analyst at The Athletic
NFL Draft Analyst for @TheAthletic. Husband, father, amateur BBQ Pitmaster.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Dianna Russini |Dane Brugler
The Cleveland Browns entered the 2025 NFL Draft with plenty of quarterback uncertainty; Deshaun Watson is out indefinitely with an Achilles injury, and the top of the depth chart might be veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett. The Browns needed to leave draft weekend with a quarterback - they left with two, in Oregon's Dillon Gabriel and Colorado's Shedeur Sanders, taken with the 94th and 144th picks, respectively.
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2 weeks ago |
chatsports.com | Dane Brugler
<__slot-el _="@=2386,x=279,y=584,w=94,h=36,co=15;15;15;1.0"><__slot-el _="@=2402,x=279,y=620,w=0,h=0,co=15;15;15;1.0">The 2025 NFL Draft is over, which means it’s time to shift to the 2026 NFL Draft! Dane Brugler of The Athletic has already dropped a way-too-early 2026 NFL Mock Draft and Chat Sports host Tom Downey is here to react to it! While a LOT is going to change between now and next year’s NFL Draft, this is a good look at some of the early 2026 NFL Draft Prospects. ...more
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2 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Dane Brugler
Is it too early for a 2026 mock draft? Of course. Instead, consider this more of a watch list for promising prospects in next year's class, one that should feature a stark upgrade in quarterback talent - five passers are included in the mock below (and a few others could push for the first round). Thirteen of the prospects in my way-too-early 2025 mock draft a year ago ultimately were drafted in the first round last weekend (eight more were selected on Day 2; six returned to school).
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Dane Brugler
Is it too early for a 2026 mock draft? Of course. Instead, consider this more of a watch list for promising prospects in next year's class, one that should feature a stark upgrade in quarterback talent - five passers are included in the mock below (and a few others could push for the first round). Thirteen of the prospects in my way-too-early 2025 mock draft a year ago ultimately were drafted in the first round last weekend (eight more were selected on Day 2; six returned to school).
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Dane Brugler
This is my spin on draft grades - after the draft ends each year, I rank the classes, 1 to 32. I don't use any special formula or analytical metric to come up with my rankings, I simply go with the vibes of which draft class got me the most excited. Your list probably looks different than mine. There wasn't a class that I truly disliked this year, though. All 32 teams got better in different ways during the 2025 NFL Draft, including those that ended up low on this list.
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RT @robertmays: 5 days until this year’s LIVE draft stream on The Athletic Football Show. @dpbrugler, @BruceFeldmanCFB, and @QBKlass will…
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Three months later, those four are still among my favorites in this class. Five others I would add to a "my guys" team: RB Jordan James, Oregon WR Jaylin Noel, Iowa State TE Terrance Ferguson, Oregon OG Dylan Fairchild, Georgia DE Barryn Sorrell, Texas
Four of "my guys" in this draft class. Prospects I'm guessing I'll be higher on than most (based on the tape): Armand Membou, OT/G, Missouri Mike Green, Edge, Marshall Carson Schwesinger, LB, UCLA Jacob Parrish, CB, Kansas St. https://t.co/dJowALkh5x
