“I mean, in this league, you kind of just expect everything, right? Like, you can’t really go in like, oh, they’re just going to draft a defensive guy,” said Thielen. “You just kind of have an open mindset. You’re excited to bring in high-quality players that can make an impact right away. Now, we won’t know what that looks like until probably 3 to 4 weeks into OTAs to see what we really truly have and how they can help impact this team.
“You want to bring in high-quality football players to help this team win games, and you don’t care what position that’s at because at the end of the day, especially for me, not a lot of time left, so I want to have the best football team as possible and bringing in good quality guys, which it seems like we have in the draft and free agency, I’m excited.:
McMillan’s 1,319 yards in 2024 were third most in FBS, and he made a reputation for himself as a winner on contested catches.
“He’s a big long receiver that has phenomenal body control and can make contested catches and can play a lot of different spots,” Thielen noted, “which in this league, in my opinion, to be a great receiver in this league, you have to be able to play in the slot, you have to be able to play outside, you have to be able to run a lot of different routes and make contested catches.
“So, from the little I’ve seen, he’s that guy. It only benefits everyone else because if he can move around, I can move around, you know, Jalen Coker can move around, Xavier Legette can move around.”