00:00This is exciting. This is a really exciting draft pick for Ryan Poles, for the Chicago Bears.
00:04I can only imagine what that war room at Hallis Hall looked like, how it exploded as more and more
00:11picks came off the board leading to this particular play or being available to them.
00:16Because I do think he suits exactly what the Chicago Bears are going to be looking at at the safety
00:21position opposite Kobe Bryant.
00:23And as much as I've covered literally every game of Dylan Thienemann's career, the two years he spent at Purdue,
00:29the one year he spent at Oregon, he is a Big Ten safety.
00:31So I've seen what he's done at a really high level. You go back to him being the Big Ten
00:36freshman of the year back in that season at Purdue.
00:39Ryan Walters was his head coach. And at that time, he had Dylan Thienemann playing as kind of a center
00:44fielder, like a deep safety.
00:46And that's where all those interceptions came back in his freshman season three years ago.
00:50And year by year, his role continued to be tweaked and adjusted.
00:54Second season at Purdue, you know, sometime at strong safety, sometime in the box.
00:59Here at Oregon, this past season, he was utilized in that Dan Lanning defense, Toslopoi's defensive coordinator, but it's Dan
01:05Lanning's defensive scheme that they were running.
01:07And he was moving around quite a bit. He spent some time at the second level, spent some time deep,
01:13did a lot more stem and disguise than we had seen at either point in his previous seasons of his
01:19college football career.
01:20And also a player that being only three years removed from high school, you can just tell he's learned more
01:25and more about the sport of football,
01:27more and more how to play defense at the major college level every year he's been doing it.
01:31I actually comp him with Kevin Byard, the player who the Bears just moved on from because he's on the
01:37other side of 30.
01:38But no player in the National Football League has had more interceptions than Kevin Byard during the time he's been
01:43here.
01:44He was such a key cog in the Bears' success that they had last season.
01:47When you look at Dylan Thiedemann, he's six foot, he's over 200 pounds, he's versatile, he's a sure tackler.
01:54He's not the thumper that some of the other safeties in this draft cycle are, but he is a physical
01:59football player.
02:00He tackles with urgency, which I really like to see that.
02:03He will continue, I think, to get even more formidable with the way that he's able to run the alley
02:09and attack the line of scrimmage.
02:11So his style of play, not only does he have the awareness and sort of the field generalship that he
02:16showcased this past season
02:17in Eugene playing safety for the Ducks, but he's going to continue getting better as a guy who's three years
02:22removed from high school.
02:24And the testing numbers being off the charts, it just ended up assuring everybody that what they were seeing on
02:29film
02:29is really legit for what it can project to at the NFL level.
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