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NFL Draft prospects to know from college football's SURPRISE teams
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NFL Draft prospects to know from college football's SURPRISE teams
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The Indiana Hoosiers are the #3 team in the country. Yes, in football. And they aren't the only big surprise this season. The Texas A&M Aggies, Missouri Tigers and Cincinnati Bearcats all have paths to the College Football Playoff, as well. We've discussed a handful of players from those teams through an NFL Draft lens, but it's not just Fernando Mendoza and Marcel Reed doing work for their respective teams. On this episode of The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast, Dane Brugler and Dave Helman go into the draft prospects you need to know from college football's surprise teams...including D'Angelo Ponds, Zion Young, and Brendan Sorsby. The guys also discuss the effects of James Franklin's firing on Penn State's NFL Draft prospects and take a look ahead to Week 8.
0:00 Welcome to the show
0:59 Increased parity in college football and the NFL
4:42 Draft prospects to watch: Indiana
7:33 Elijah Sarratt
12:52 Aiden Fisher
14:57 Mikail Kamara
15:42 De'Angelo Ponds
20:26 Draft prospects to watch: Texas A&M
24:14 Trey Zuhn III
27:05 Taurean York
27:35 Cashius Howell
33:27 Draft prospects to watch: Missouri
35:11 Zion Young, Damon Wilson, Chris McClellan
37:22 Recapping Kadyn Proctor, Ty Simpson performances vs Missouri
42:17 Draft prospects to watch: Cincinnati
42:52 Brendan Sorsby
44:04 Big 12 outlook
45:04 What impact will James Franklin's firing have on prospects?
47:09 Drew Shelton
48:27 Drew Allar
53:49 Prospects to watch this weekend
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