Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon<\/p>\n
Right off the bat, I\u2019m sorry. What a boring pick. Go find a mock draft site, look up their latest first round mock, and they have Thieneman going to the Vikings at 18. Other than Fernando Mendoza to the Raiders, this has to be the most common pick for mock drafters. The reasons why are pretty easy to identify:<\/p>\n
Maybe Downs slides and the Vikings can nab him, but Thieneman seems like a safe pick for them. He\u2019s a smart ball-hawk with excellent college production in all three years. He\u2019s on the smaller side for a safety but he\u2019s quite agile, particularly running downhill (a 4.35 40 yard dash). I\u2019d go on, but this pick\u2019s analysis has frankly been done to death. What follows is a random aside about how snake-bitten a franchise the Vikings are, but feel free to skip to the end if you\u2019re not interested.<\/p>\n
Pity the Vikings fanbase. They root for a model franchise in the regular season and a perennial loser in the postseason. Seriously, the Vikings have the third-best regular season record (517-395-7, .566 W%) in the Super Bowl era behind only the Steelers and Cowboys and just ahead of the Dolphins and Patriots*. The next best regular season team without a Lombardi trophy are the sixteenth-ranked Chargers at 444-469-6, .486 W%. Their team lore, per Wikipedia, is just as sad:<\/p>\n
Of the eleven lore pages there, three are positive for the Vikings, one where they\u2019re a passenger in someone else\u2019s story (the Santa Claus incident**), one is just weird (Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy), and seven are incidents Vikings fans probably want to forget. Even of those three positive events, only one came in the postseason, and the good feelings from that game (thankfully) only lasted a week.<\/p>\n
*: Always nice to give the Patriots an asterisk. In the Super Bowl era, the Patriots\u2019 regular season record is 507-411-1. Ties are rare in the NFL, but every other team in the NFL has tied at least twice in the last 60 seasons. The Patriots\u2019 last tie? Week 3 in 1967, when they were still the Boston Patriots.<\/p>\n
**: Until writing this article, I legitimately thought the Eagles were playing the Bills during the Santa Claus incident. Since the Bills were in the AFL in \u201968, I guess this was impossible. The more you know!<\/p>\n
2026 BGN Mock Draft Order<\/p>\n
1) Raiders (Mailata_in_a_Miata): Fernando Mendoza, QB, Indiana
2) Jets (Dr.MidnightGreen): Arvell Reese, EDGE, Ohio State
3) Cardinals (grantspectations): Spencer Fano, OT, Utah
4) Titans (DrBubbles): Jeremiyah Love, RB, Notre Dame
5) Giants (ablesser88): Sonny Styles, LB, Ohio State
6) Browns (kjb304): Olaivavega Ioane, OG, Penn State
7) Commanders (Jerry Robinson 56): Carnell Tate, WR, Ohio State
8) Saints (VetStadiumSection358): David Bailey, EDGE, Texas Tech
9) Chiefs (Hoosinole): Caleb Downs, S, Ohio State
10) Bengals (chuckelberryfinn): Francis Mauigoa, OT, Miami
11) Dolphins (phillyfan): Jordyn Tyson, WR, Arizona State
12) Cowboys (ejdubya): Rueben Bain Jr., EDGE, Miami
13) Rams (All_Hail_Howie): Mansoor Delane, CB, LSU
14) Ravens (215T1LL1D1e): Monroe Freeling, OT, Georgia
15) Buccaneers (pascofljoe): Makai Lemon, WR, USC
16) Jets (Euegene11): Ty Simpson, QB, Alabama
17) Lions (BCHaas): Blake Miller, OT, Clemson
18) Vikings (The Player Formerly Known as Mousecop): Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon
19) Panthers (jaynase)
20) Cowboys (Cravin\u2019 LeBlanc)
21) Steelers (iam4theBirdz)
22) Chargers (Aint1stULast)
23) Eagles (Philly21)
24) Browns (FierceDisc65)
25) Bears (jazztafari)
26) Bills (PhillyTexan)
27) 49ers (granthill7)
28) Texans (CrackTheEaglesNut)
29) Chiefs (z)
30) Dolphins (Booth12)
31) Patriots (Niels Rosenquist)
32) Seahawks (J. Wil)<\/p>\n
2026 BGN Community Consensus Mock Draft<\/p>\n
Now it\u2019s YOUR TURN to vote for who you think should be selected with this pick.<\/p>\n
1) Raiders: QB Fernando Mendoza
2) Jets: EDGE Arvell Reese
3) Cardinals: OT Francis Mauigoa
4) Titans: RB Jeremiyah Love
5) Giants: LB Sonny Styles
6) Browns: WR Carnell Tate
7) Commanders: EDGE David Bailey
8) Saints: EDGE Rueben Bain Jr.
9) Chiefs: S Caleb Downs
10) Bengals: CB Mansoor Delane
11) Dolphins: WR Jordyn Tyson
12) Cowboys: CB Jermod McCoy
13) Rams: WR Makai Lemon
14) Ravens: OT Monroe Freeling
15) Buccaneers: TE Kenyon Sadiq
16) Jets: OG Olaivavega Ioane
17) Lions: OT Spencer Fano
18) Vikings:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon Right off the bat, I\u2019m sorry. What a boring pick. Go find a mock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,6,242,109,101379,107,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-862915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-mock-drafts","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-draft","15":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116379019101002264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862915","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=862915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}