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The Minnesota Vikings embark on Glendale, Arizona, on Monday night time to start the playoffs in a gathering with the Los Angeles Rams.
These Are All of the Vikings Draft Picks for 2025
The sport was moved from Inglewood, California, to Arizona as a consequence of wildfires.
And every time the Vikings’ season ends — hopefully that’s February — all eyes will flip to the crew’s offseason, together with free company and the 2025 NFL Draft.
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Because it stands proper now, these are Minnesota’s draft picks.
1. 1st RounderPick Vary: 24-32
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Crew Want at This Spot:CornerbackDefensive TackleInterior Offensive Line
Minnesota received’t have a high-flying draft decide within the High 10 or High 15. It performed too nicely for that this season.
Importantly, although, normal supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah didn’t promote his 2025 1st-Rounder final yr when pursuing his quarterback of the longer term. This one stayed put and shall be a late-20s draft decide.
2. third Spherical Compensatory from Kirk Cousins’ 2024 Free Company
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Crew Want at This Spot:Operating BackInterior Offensive LineWR3
This received’t be formally introduced for a few months, however Minnesota ought to decide on the prime of the compensatory allotment in Spherical 3 due to Cousins’ departure final yr.
It will be prime territory for the Vikings to draft a operating again in a moderately deep draft for such prospects.
3. fifth Rounderfrom Cleveland Browns (Za’Darius Smith Commerce)
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Crew Want at This Spot:Depth OLDepth DL
This ought to be across the 136th to a hundred and fortieth decide.
Minnesota traded Smith in 2023 after he squawked on Twitter about wanting out. Now, the Vikings will spend a late-round decide due to his exit.
4. fifth RounderOrganic
Crew Want at This Spot:Depth OLDepth DLWR3
Adofo-Mensah will seemingly commerce like a fiend earlier than and in the course of the draft; that’s what he does. This decide will not be utilized by Minnesota.
Nonetheless, the Vikings may use some depth within the trenches by taking a flyer within the fifth Spherical. This may be the place they pursue a WR3 or WR4.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his every day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options friends, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple crew, 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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