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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Eric Eager thinks the Vikings went for the right positional value in the draft

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Eric Eager of SumerSports Show talks about the analytics of the Vikings' draft, from what surplus value actually means to why positional value is talked about so often on draft night. Did Kwesi Adofo-Mensah do well with his group of pick? Should they have taken Will Levis? What's next for the organization? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew College here and look who's back. It's Eric Yeager. of the

0:25.0

episode of The Super Sports Show,

0:27.0

Sumer Sports, the podcast with Thomas Dimitrov,

0:30.0

tremendous,

0:31.0

tremendous insight leading into the draft and analyzing the draft.

0:35.2

So because we have some analytical issues to dive into here,

0:40.3

you are back and also Kevin Cole's going to join the show later in the week.

0:44.1

We're going to make sure we get to the bottom of every analytical angle of the

0:48.1

Minnesota Vikings draft and others. So Eric how are you? was your draft? Well Thomas and I did the first round on our on our draft show and it didn't it went without a hitch

1:00.7

So that was good.

1:05.0

Obviously some teams did better than others. Some people did better than others.

1:07.0

Will Levis of course fell out of round one.

1:09.0

I told everybody on this freaking show that Henan Hooker wouldn't go around one and not only

1:13.8

did that happen, Will Levison going around one.

1:18.4

You know, the lions took a running back and linebacker and what could only be seen as a continuation of the luck the Vikings enjoyed last year in the NFC North.

1:29.0

The Bears are fine. the Packers took, you know, another edge type player, a player who

1:37.8

didn't play a ton in college, so it would be interesting to see how he does.

1:42.2

And the Vikings took a player that made a lot of sense for them and Jordan

1:45.8

Addison as well as some other players of premium positions they they had the highest

1:51.6

percentage of the pick go at premium spots.

1:54.2

So that was after last year where they took guys that,

1:56.6

running back linebacker safety and stuff,

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