{"id":842707,"date":"2026-03-30T11:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/842707\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:18:36","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-meet-the-prospect-oregon-safety-dillon-thieneman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/842707\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft Meet the Prospect: Oregon safety Dillon Thieneman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN&#8217;s Field Yates has Thieneman as his <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/draft2026\/story\/_\/id\/47590505\/2026-nfl-draft-rankings-board-top-prospects-best-positional-field-yates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">No. 19 overall prospect<\/a> and No. 2 safety behind Downs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like the tight end class, there&#8217;s good depth at safety,&#8221; Yates wrote. &#8220;Thieneman stands atop as the best ball-hawking center fielder among them. He snagged six interceptions as a true freshman with Purdue in 2023 before two with the Ducks in 2025. He has a strong ability to diagnose plays and has great vision and hands that would grade out well if he were a receiver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NFL lead draft writer Eric Edholm has Thieneman at No. 22 on his <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/eric-edholm-s-top-100-nfl-draft-prospects-1-0-ranking-the-best-players-in-the-2026-class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Top 100 list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instinctive ball finder with good size and athleticism, as well as the ability to play high or low. Thieneman looks like a possible Day 1 starter to me,&#8221; Edholm wrote.<\/p>\n<p>What he had to say: &#8220;I just bring that hard worker, discipline demeanor, consistent,&#8221; Thieneman said at the Combine. &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m the same guy day in, day out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s Field Yates has Thieneman as his No. 19 overall prospect and No. 2 safety behind Downs. &#8220;Like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,416,147,5515,415,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-842707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroitlions","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-news-road-to-the-draft-yoy","15":"tag-news-twentyman","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116317854387705771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}