Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fanduil,

Matthew Collar here.

And on the show today,

to talk about the Consensus Big Board.

It's draft season.

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And to talk about our conclusions from the Consensus big board and what we are most intrigued to see come next week's NFL draft is Aref Hassan. What is up, my friend? How are you? Hey, I'm good. I'm good. How are you? Oh, I am well. I've been waiting. I've been DMing you. I've been mocking you mercilessly on social media. Just like, take your time, man.

The draft is almost here and I kind of need this.

But I would like to run down some notable potential Minnesota Vikings draft picks

and where they rank on big boards and then discuss kind of what we can take away from that. Number one, I just laughed out loud when I saw it, that Dylan Thineman was number 18. Of course he was. Of course he was. I guess if everyone mocks him to the same team, and I know it's not a consensus mock, but it's a big board. And yet still, he ranks number 18.

I want to talk about the safety position, though, because McNeil Warren is lower.

And of course, Caleb Downs is up at the top.

Historically speaking, if you go back to old consensus boards of yours and you look at

where the safeties rank by the mock draft universe, the draft analysis universe, it is routinely

higher than they are actually taken. So do you think that will be the case this year with

Downs, Thineman, McNeil Warren, or do you think that this year will be different?

I think for specifically Thinaman, it may not be different.

But I think generally speaking for safeties, it'll follow that trend.

Generally, like, we see, you know, teams kind of prioritize these positions that we consider to be relatively high value.

So, like, we make fun of teams for drafting running backs in the first round and whatever.

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