Draft Night Coverage Hour 4 - Final buildup & reaction to Vikings selecting Donovan Jackson

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Streaming live from the Purple Insider podcast bunker, Matthew Coller reacted live to night one of the NFL Draft. During hour four of the livestream, Coller reacts to the Packers selection and who that leaves the Vikings at No. 24 before discussing the Vikings' selection of Donovan Jackson with the No. 24 overall pick. Intern Clay also pops in to discuss how the actual picks compare to the consensus big board.

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0:00.0	There it is Matthew Golden, the wide receiver from Texas.
0:08.5	The Packers taking another speedster to go along with.
0:12.1	Maybe Christian Watson will recover from his injury, but that is problematic for them.
0:17.1	Jaden Reed, they are looking for their number one wide receiver.
0:21.9	Last year, we heard all about how it was actually better that they did not have a good
0:26.2	receiver.
0:26.6	And now they changed their tune a little bit in drafting Matthew Golden.
0:32.5	And for the Vikings perspective, this is twofold.
0:37.1	Number one, well, it's a wide receiver they're going to have to cover and he's pretty darn fast.
0:42.8	Running a four three is serious.
0:45.3	If he can catch, if he can run routes, he could be problematic for the Vikings.
0:49.3	The history of four three wide receivers is not particularly great because teams reach on them.
0:56.8	And they have expectations for guys that maybe didn't perform in college
1:00.4	because they don't have the details, but they just have peer speed.
1:03.4	That might be Matthew Golden, who I think is a better prospect than your John Ross or something.
1:10.1	But I also don't think that he's as great of a
1:13.0	prospect as deserving of 23rd overall. Still nonetheless, a 4-3 wide receiver that the Minnesota
1:20.1	Vikings will have to deal with going forward. That's one side of it. The other side is,
1:25.4	look at this board for the Vikings. We don't know the Will
1:30.3	Johnson medical situation, but that's a top 10 player. Jihad Campbell, a top 15 player. Melchai
1:38.4	Starks, Nikki Manwere, these are the top safeties. Luther Burden, projected by some to be the number one wide receiver off the board.
1:48.0	The Vikings options are plentiful here.
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