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Vikings Draft: The 6 Lifelike Approaches

usa-foot February 22, 2025
Vikings Draft: The 6 Lifelike Approaches
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Minnesota Vikings Normal Supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah joined Paul Allen to speak about quite a lot of subjects, together with previewing the Week 8 matchup with the Los Angeles Rams. October twenty second, 2024. MIN completed 14-2 within the 2024 common season.

The Minnesota Vikings are scheduled to choose twenty fourth on April twenty fourth, the primary evening of the 2025 NFL Draft.

Vikings Draft: The 6 Lifelike Approaches

The membership completed 14-3 in 2024 — therefore the low-round placement.

And with the occasion 8.5 weeks away, the Vikings have about six doable choices — methods, anyway.

These are the instructions the Vikings’ draft can bend ranked in ascending order of probability (No. 1 = more than likely)

6. A Commerce Up

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It most likely gained’t occur, however Boise State operating again Ashton Jeanty may tumble on draft evening, and to safe the RB1 spot for the following 5 seasons, the Vikings may have interaction in a surprising commerce — wheeling and dealing up the board for a operating again.

Jeanty is rattling electrical, and after followers obtained over the preliminary stupefaction of buying and selling up for a halfback, they’d love the choice. Jeanty’s eventual manufacturing may mirror Christian McCaffrey and Saquon Barkley.

5. Operating Again at No. 24

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Minnesota wants a youthful RB answer, and this 12 months’s draft is totally good for the duty.

As an alternative of buying and selling up for Ashton Jeanty, common supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah may stick-and-pick at No. 24 with a participant like Kaleb Johnson (Iowa), Omarion Hampton (North Carolina), or TreVeyon Henderson (Ohio State).

The Vikings have extra urgent wants than RB, however there’s an opportunity Adofo-Mensah will get his subsequent tailback for the following 5 years from Spherical 1.

4. Inside Offensive Lineman at No. 24

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That is code for: Tyler Booker, an Alabama guard.

Booker is the one iOL at No. 24 who may justify a Spherical 1 choice. It’s price noting that he’ll most likely be the primary inside offensive lineman off the board.

3. Spherical 1 Cornerback

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Maybe essentially the most pressing roster want, Minnesota may use its 1st-Rounder on a cornerback at No. 24.

Travis Hunter (Colorado) and Will Johnson (Michigan) shall be lengthy gone by the point the Vikings draft, however these males may very well be in play:

Jahdae Barron (CB, Texas)

Shavon Revel Jr. (CB, East Carolina)

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Benjamin Morrison (CB, Notre Dame)

2. Defensive Deal with at No. 24

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Working below the idea that Adofo-Mensah finds two beginning cornerbacks in free company, he springs for a protracted overdue defensive sort out within the draft.

These are the present regular suspects:

Walter Nolen (DT, Ole Miss)

Tyleik Williams (DT, Ohio State)

Kenneth Grant (DT, Michigan)

Derrick Harmon (DT, Oregon)

1. Commerce Down for Extra Draft Capital

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Minnesota traded loads for the draft decide that netted EDGE rusher Dallas Turner final 12 months.

So, to recoup, Adofo-Mensah may commerce down the board, securing two picks for the value of 1. An early 2nd-Rounder + a late 3-Rounder would make sense.

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Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his each day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options company, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple group, with 4-7 episodes per week. His Vikings obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as intently because the NFL. 

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