Mike Renner goes deep on Caleb Banks, Vikings GM path
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Mike Renner of CBS Sports. |
| 0:08.1 | You've had them on the show many times. |
| 0:09.9 | And one of the reasons is, Mike, I think you've got one of the best eyes in the industry for details about players. |
| 0:15.4 | So I want to dive deep into the details of Caleb Banks. |
| 0:19.0 | I also want to offer you the Vikings GM job, |
| 0:21.8 | and we'll see where you take the Vikings build from there. |
| 0:25.2 | But let's just start with on draft night, |
| 0:28.0 | when you had set up your board and your expectations, |
| 0:31.5 | did you have Caleb Banks going as high as he did? |
| 0:36.2 | I did not. |
| 0:37.4 | I think it's safe to say. And truthfully, and as bad as, like two different things to this. One obviously is the injuries, which made me think that even the NFL, even like the people who were so high in him before all the injuries, I thought would sour on him when the guys had two foot surgeries over the last nine months, right? And that he would probably fall to the second, potentially even farther. I could have seen the Jamad McCoy-esque fall, right? Just like off every board because of those feet, the foot injuries and you just take them later on. So for him to not, you know, be back on teams boards as high as he was, I was surprised about that from the injuries. But then even from an on-field perspective, I had big concerns about his talent translating |
| 1:15.1 | to the NFL consistently. |
| 1:16.4 | Now, I think he's somewhat of a high floor player because he is so explosive in imposing |
| 1:23.3 | at that size. |
| 1:24.8 | But I don't see this theoretical ceiling that people are talking about. |
| 1:29.1 | So even if he was fully healthy, he never had the foot injuries, which obviously you can't |
| 1:32.4 | say, but just like, just from the tape I saw on him, I would have had him more as a day two guy. |
| 1:37.7 | It's probably like a back end of the top 50 sort of player, just because, I mean, a historically unproductive prospect, right? |
| 1:46.0 | 13 career run stops at college, right? |
| 1:49.4 | He is not done much other than high-end flashes. |
| 1:53.8 | So I was not an 18th overall pick guy, but again, I know some people I respect that work. |
| 1:58.8 | Like, he was a polarizing prospect. |
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