Questions Answered: Sneaky Spherical 1 Draft Want for Vikings, Kirk Cousins’ Subsequent Group, Najee Harris

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Questions Answered: Sneaky Spherical 1 Draft Want, Kirk Cousins’ Subsequent Group, Najee Harris

Additionally, please word: These are opinion-based responses. Some solutions will likely be incorrect once in a while. However we’ll attempt to preserve that to a minimal.

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Q: Might you see the Vikings drafting a security in Spherical 1 if Harrison Smith retires and Camryn Bynum leaves in free company?

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Reply: Sure, that’s doable, however we’d relatively they deal with cornerback or defensive deal with.

It’s in all probability extra seemingly {that a}) Bynum returns with the Vikings earlier than hitting the open market b) Minnesota indicators Jevon Holland from the Miami Dolphins — earlier than letting the protection roster want fall to the draft.

Security is far simpler to determine than cornerback or defensive deal with amongst all positions on an NFL roster. That’s — respectable safeties may be present in free company; good free-agent corners are scarce.

But when basic supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah completely has to draft a security (once more) in Spherical 1, it will likely be as a result of Malaki Starks fell down the board or the crew reached for South Carolina’s Nick Emmanwori.

Q: The place will Kirk Cousins play subsequent season?

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Reply: Our cash is on the Cleveland Browns.

Cousins’ subsequent crew can signal him to a dinker contract — has anyone ever typed that? — this offseason as a result of he’s nonetheless receiving assured cash from the Atlanta Falcons. Suppose: Russell Wilson’s free company in 2024.

Kevin Stefanski crossed paths with Cousins in 2019, and the Browns are in wage cap hell due to Deshaun Watson. An inexpensive Cousins in Cleveland simply makes an excessive amount of sense.

Q: Ought to Minnesota signal Najee Harris because the RB1 repair in free company?

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Reply: That might work, sure.

For now, the purple crew will enter the offseason with two working backs hooked up to the finances in 2025: Ty Chandler and Zavier Scott. These males might not even make the lively roster late in August, so elementary RB change is across the bend.

Harris can work at RB1 if Adofo-Mensah doesn’t re-sign Aaron Jones, however we additionally hope that Minnesota drafts a rookie, too, nearly it doesn’t matter what. This 2025 RB draft class is unbelievably deep. The Vikings must partake.

Signing Harris can be nice, however a youth injection is required as properly.

One of many Ohio State working backs — TreVeyon Henderson or Quinshon Judkins — would do the trick.

Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his day by day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options visitors, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple crew, with 4-7 episodes per week. His MIN 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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