and Hello and welcome back to the Purple Insider Podcast. I am Paul Hodawannick. I'm taking the reins from Matt today to do a little breakdown of the wide receiver class. The Vikings at number 12 could very easily pick off a receiver especially if the draft board falls and

some defensive players they are targeting aren't there and so to break down exactly

what the Vikings could do at 12 with the wider receiver position.

We are welcoming on reporters from all of the top five wide receivers and the first reporter

we have up is Colin Gay, Colin Reports for Rivals.com on Ohio State. So Colin is going to give us a breakdown of Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson, two of the top wide receivers in the class, both from Ohio State.

So Colin, how are we doing this morning?

I'm good, I'm good.

It's, it's, this will be the first, which is crazy to think about especially with what Brian Hartline has done at Ohio State. I mean this is I think I read that this will be the first time that I mean barring anything crazy happening that Ohio State will have first round receivers since 2007

and they're gonna have two of them this year so it's kind of crazy to watch but yeah

I'm excited to chat with you for sure.

Yeah for sure so I guess let's just jump right into it.

For those have that haven't gotten a chance to watch much of Garrett Wilson or

Crystal Lobby or Reed much if you could just kind of describe their games maybe compare and

contrast them a little bit. What if one was drafted by the Vikings who are they

getting in both guys? Sure so let's let's start with Chris Olave.

So Chris Olave, if we go back to all the way

to his recruitment, he wasn't really one of the guys

that Ohio State had targeted.

He wasn't really on their radar. Actually, the story goes that Ryan Day went out to California to go watch Jack Tuttle, a former who ended up at Utah, ended up at Indiana later, but he went to watch him throw and then he saw this this guy. He's like who is this kid at a widever and it's Chris Olave who ended up breaking you know setting the school record and touchdowns and like just being absolutely insane and it's actually kind of I was talking about this with somebody it was very very similar to what I mean they knew who Garrett Wilson was but we'll talk about that later

Chris Olabe is kind of that prototypical Brian Hartline receiver.

He can catch.

He has hands like anyone's business.

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