Former NFL scout and current draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah offered his eval of Golday after the pick:<\/p>\n
“He can really run and carry guys down the slot [in pass coverage] to go along with some of that range off the edge,” Jeremiah said. “You’ll see him rush at times, and that versatility. Thinking about [Leighton] Vander Esch, going back to the Cowboys, is another one. We saw these long-range linebackers, Sonny Styles goes off the board in the Top 10. Another version of that here in the second round.”<\/p>\n
Golday was introduced to Minnesota’s culture and spent time with coaches and scouts during his only Top 30 visit with an organization earlier this month. He said he “got a good little minute” to speak with Flores on his visit, which entailed a large group meeting with Vikings defensive coaches and prospects.<\/p>\n
The learning component is one of the primary parts of the sport Golday loves and takes pride in, he said.<\/p>\n
Golday is the second alumnus from Arlington High School (TN) to play in the NFL. The first, running back Kenneth Walker III, was MVP of Super Bowl LX for Seattle and signed with Kansas City in free agency. Golday and Walker were HS teammates for two seasons. Golday also lettered in baseball and basketball.<\/p>\n
Along with his Bearcats brethren, Golday will join a LB room led by starting “green dot” Blake Cashman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NFL scout and current draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah offered his eval of Golday after the pick: “He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1026,7,118427,270,1025,2818,1219,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-874346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-draft-pick-articles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jake-golday-draft-weekend","11":"tag-news-draft","12":"tag-news-index","13":"tag-news-press-release","14":"tag-news-team","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116465876562749338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874346","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=874346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}