The Minnesota Vikings have simply 4 picks heading into the 2025 NFL Draft. Basic supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah offered ample draft capital on the decide that fetched outdoors linebacker Dallas Turner in final yr’s draft.
Dustin Baker’s Vikings Mock Draft 2.0 | 2025
Minnesota wants cornerbacks, inside offensive linemen, inside defensive linemen, and maybe a operating again and security this offseason.
So, right here’s the perfect stab at a predictive mock draft — the second version — for the 2025 Vikings. Model 1.0 could be learn right here.
Commerce!
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To kick off the festivities, we predict a Vikings commerce with the Jacksonville Jaguars, the group that furnished the Dallas Turner commerce final yr.
Vikings Get: 2nd-Rounder (Decide 36)Third-Rounder (Decide 88)4th-Rounder (Decide 125)
Jaguars Get:1st-Rounder (Decide 24)
Spherical 2 | Decide 36Shavon Revel Jr. (CB)
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School = East Carolina
Revel Jr. tore his ACL final fall, which can trigger his in any other case High-20 draft inventory to tumble in April.
Properly, the Vikings, a group coming into the offseason with cornerback as its emergency want, will profit, grabbing Revel Jr. in Spherical 2 after the flamboyant commerce with Jacksonville.
A cornerback room for 2025 will look one thing like this after free company:
Byron Murphy Jr.
Paulson Adebo
Shavon Revel Jr.
Mekhi Blackmon
Dwight McGlothern
Spherical 3 | Decide 88Quinshon Judkins (RB)
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School = Ohio State
Aaron Jones will most likely be again for an additional run, however Minnesota additionally wants a younger runner for the long run.
Right here, that’s Judkins, who performed splendidly within the Nationwide Championship. Minnesota will showcase an RB room with Aaron Jones, Quinshon Judkins, and Cam Akers.
Judkins’ solely weak spot is elite velocity; he does every part else tremendously.
Spherical 3 | Decide 97Jamaree Caldwell (DT)
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School = Oregon
Caldwell is a bigger defensive sort out at 6’2″ and 330 kilos. As an NFLer studying his approach, he’ll be extra of a run stuffer who can ultimately blossom right into a pass-rushing menace. He additionally has scheme versatility in order that when Brian Flores accepts a head teaching job sooner or later, Caldwell gained’t undergo.
Spherical 4 | Decide 125Jared Wilson (C)
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School = Georgia
Late-round draft picks are lottery tickets, but when Minnesota is severe about enhancing the inside offensive line, why not Wilson from Georgia?
Garrett Bradbury might or will not be again in 2025, and if Minnesota loses out or doesn’t enter the Drew Dalman free-agent sweepstakes, Wilson can be part of the purple group’s roster and maybe turn out to be a late-round offensive line steal that different groups all the time appear to find.
Spherical 5 | Decide 138Ricky White III (WR)
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School = UNLV
Minnesota will embark on 2025 with Jalen Nailor at WR3, however the franchise ought to take a flyer on a late-round wideout like White.
White is a playmaker at coronary heart and fills particular group duties as effectively. He’ll be the Vikings’ Swiss military utility on offense.
Spherical 5 | Decide 159Sebastian Castro (S)
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School = Iowa
People gained’t be thrilled about Castro’s age — he’ll be 25 as a rookie — however he’ll carry violence to the again finish of Flores’ protection.
Minnesota would possibly want security assist if Harrison Smith retires or Camryn Bynum leaves in free company, and Castro can shore up depth.
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 visitors, 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.
All statistics offered by Professional Soccer Reference / Stathead; all contractual info offered by OverTheCap.com.
