Pull inside a Well, Nysider, Matt Coller here.

And joining me on the show is Aaron McMahon.

He is a Michigan football beat reporter for M-live.com. You know, Aaron, we have been talking pretty much

non-stop about J.J. McCarthy, but you had a chance to cover J.J. McCarthy's

entire time at Michigan. So let me start out with this question.

Did you expect to hear that the Minnesota Vikings could potentially trade up into the top five to drafts

J.J McCarthy. Was that something that you expected after the national

championship? Probably not, but I guess nothing surprised me at this point.

You know, when he initially declared at the end of the beginning of January after Michigan won national championship,

I think the assumption at that point was he was kind of looked at as like a fringe first-round pick.

I think the assumption was he was going to go first round just because he played at Michigan

and they won a national championship and he had all that success.

But we've seen them gradually move up the board now in the last couple of months.

I think part of that has been, you know, the need for a quarterback.

I think a lot of NFL talent evaluators have turned on the film and realized, wow,

JJ, maybe a little bit better than we thought than maybe the numbers show.

So you see them make this rise. He's gone from like borderline first round to middle of the first round and now we're hearing his name it seems like over and over in the top 10 and now we're hearing top 5. so no I'm not shocked you know the teams are always you know you know it could be any team right like any a lot of several teams look for

quarterbacks you don't know which one

necessarily wants to move up and get him but no I mean his ceiling is so

high and we'll probably get an event in a minute but no the kid the kid is

talented there's no doubt about it he played winning football so like from the

NFL perspective I get why teams are interested.

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