Jeff Schwartz

And at that time, he had Dylan Thienemann playing as kind of a center fielder, like a deep safety.

And that's where all those interceptions came back in his freshman season.

three years ago.

And year by year, his role continued to be tweaked and adjusted.

Second season at Purdue, you know, sometime at strong safety, sometime in the box.

Here at Oregon, this past season, he was utilized in that Dan Lanning defense, Tosla Poi's defensive coordinator, but it's Dan Lanning's defensive scheme that they were running.

And he was moving around quite a bit.

He spent some time at the second level, spent some time deep defensively.

did a lot more stem and disguise than we had seen at either point in his previous seasons of his college football career, and also a player that being only three years removed from high school, you can just tell he's learned more and more about the sport of football, more and more how to play defense at the major college level every year he's been doing it.

I actually comp him with Kevin Bayard, the player who the Bears just moved on from because he's on the other side of 30.

But no player in the National Football League has had more interceptions than Kevin Bayard during the time he's been here.

He was such a key cog in the Bears' success that they had last season.

When you look at Dylan Thiedemann, he's six foot.

He's over 200 pounds.

He's versatile.

He's a sure tackler.

He's not the thumper that some of the other safeties in this draft cycle are, but he is a physical football player.

He tackles with urgency, which I really like to see that.

He will continue, I think, to get even more formidable with the way that he's able to run the alley and attack the line of scrimmage.

So his style of play, not only does he have the awareness and sort of the field generalship that he showcased this past season in Eugene playing safety for the Ducks, but he's going to continue getting better defensively.