{"id":861528,"date":"2026-04-08T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861528\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:44:07","slug":"pod-community-mock-with-the-18th-pick-the-vikings-select","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861528\/","title":{"rendered":"POD Community Mock: With the 18th pick, the Vikings select\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideofdetroit.com\/detroit-lions-draft\/161165\/2026-nfl-mock-draft-detroit-lions-spencer-fano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Detroit Lions have made their pick in our 2026 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;the Detroit Lions have made their pick in our 2026 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft&quot;}\" class=\"link \">the Detroit Lions have made their pick in our 2026 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft<\/a>, it\u2019s time to continue with our site-wide, two-round mock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As a reminder, this mock is being completed by our community. We have 31 of our most loyal commenters acting as general manager for 31 teams. Erik Schlitt picked for the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Minnesota Vikings are on the clock, and commenter PonceDeLion is their acting general manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Before we get to the pick, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideofdetroit.com\/e\/161093\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:head to our 2026 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft tracker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;head to our 2026 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft tracker&quot;}\" class=\"link \">head to our 2026 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft tracker<\/a>. There you\u2019ll find the previous 17 picks, along with links to each article and a grade for each pick, as decided by you, the readers. Don\u2019t forget to cast your vote for each pick with the poll at the bottom of the articles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now, onto this pick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With the 18th pick in the 2026 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft, the Minnesota Vikings select Dillon Thieneman, safety out of Oregon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s PonceDeLion explaining the pick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Live from the Vikings War room<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Acting GM Rob Brzezinski (Think Disner with Rod Wood tenure): Okay guys, we\u2019re on the clock, nobody\u2019s called to trade up. I\u2019m just here to facilitate the discussion. Let\u2019s hear it! Kevin?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kevin O\u2019Connell(HC): I like our starters, but we\u2019re thin and aging because our last GM wasn\u2019t a football guy. Who you like Flo?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Brian Flores(DC): We need a monster in the middle, but we can get one later. I could use another LB\/Edge that can rush, or that Clemson corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wes Phillips(OC): We badly need young skill players with speed. There\u2019s a couple WR\u2019s I\u2019d like, Addison just did something dumb again. Definitely need a speed RB later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Frank Smith (Associate HC): Sounds like we gotta stack some quality players. I like the options, let\u2019s be safe here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rob Brzezinski: Ok, good talk everyone. We\u2019ll go with the Safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Time to grade the pick. Vote in the poll below and share your expanded thoughts in the comment section:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Detroit Lions have made their pick in our 2026 Pride of Detroit Community Mock Draft, it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[113,19134,25316,7,233,4727,259,2529,4002,6,683,575,49756,103805,3081,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-861528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-detroit-lions","9":"tag-dillon-thieneman","10":"tag-eugene","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-minnesota","13":"tag-minnesota-golden-gophers","14":"tag-minnesota-vikings","15":"tag-minnesotavikings","16":"tag-mock-draft","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-oregon","19":"tag-oregon-ducks","20":"tag-pride-of-detroit","21":"tag-rob-brzezinski","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116371039976658694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861528","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=861528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}