and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here going

live on the YouTube channel to do a draft simulation we haven't done this in a while. I mean I think last year we did some live

draft sims but so far this year we haven't done a whole lot of it but I did another one for the

website today if you want to go check that out, but I wanted to go fully live so we could get reaction and people in the comment section on YouTube could talk about how much they dislike my picks. But I also want to leave the door open for this

episode for other things. So if you have questions in the comment section and we'll talk about

the reactions to the picks.

So we'll have plenty of time for other stuff

to go on tonight.

And just around the league a little bit,

a lot of times, it kind of start out these

with some sort of statement of what's going on and maybe analysis to different things, but it's been a little slow outside of Odell-Beckham. But something I wanted to bring up before we get into the draft sim is Odele Beckham signed his contract. It ends up being a big deal for him.

$15 million could be as high as $18 million. And and yes the Baltimore Ravens are doing the void year thing

so that kind of tells you and also apparently Lamar Jackson was somewhat involved in this

decision that if you were thinking that Lamar Jackson is going anywhere else, that was a pretty big blow to the chances of Lamar Jackson becoming a Minnesota Viking or becoming pretty much anything else.

I think it's possible that the Ravens signed O'Dell-Beckham in part to try to mend some fences

with Lamar Jackson. I mean, I think Lamar Jackson has a pretty

legitimate case if he's frustrated by the struggles of the Baltimore Ravens to

get good wide receivers. Now they did draft two of them in recent years,

Hollywood Brown and then Rashad Bateman, but they traded Hollywood Brown away

for a first round pick last year. Honestly, a very good deal for Baltimore,

but I think that was somebody Lamar Jackson really liked.

Rashad Bateman has not worked out very well.

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