and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and joining me on the show a return appearance for Ben Lindsay

analyst from Pro Football Focus what is up Ben how are you? I'm doing well can't complain

you got the draft draft in there.

So now we got a little bit, a little bit of downtime,

a little bit of make up some storylines

over here for the next few months.

Well, yes, you will rank players by every possible way.

You can rank them by the coolness of their names, by their PFF grades.

Let me ask you a question about grading drafts.

So in a previous episode we had a survey where you had to fill it out and that was what your draft grade for the Vikings is. Do you ever go back and look at what you said about teams drafts or do you just move on and forget about it forever?

I probably should go back and look but in reality I kind of just move on.

And there's some there's some instances where two three. I kind of just move on.

And there's some instances where two, three years down the line, you go back and re-grade a draft class

and then that's when I sort of look back sometimes

and see initially what was said about it. but for the most part just sort of put that in the past and start evaluating them from their rookie.

Yeah, I mean, for us, it's kind of the same way where it's like okay on draft night we give our

initial takes and then all of those takes don't really matter the minute that they

step on the field for training camp I mean we've seen guys go from you know

totally unthought of draft picks that we're like, who cares and then they become stars and we've seen many times where a guy is supposed to make a huge impact right away and never even steps on the field. How about even all the time spent

last off season talking about Kellenmond and then he steps on the field one time and was

the backup for Sean Mannion but that was all we talked about right after the draft.

Oh, they drafted this athletic quarterback.

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