NFL Draft 2012: Reviewing the Minnesota Vikings' Draft Strategy

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Unlike the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings' plan module be supported on more of what they requirement than what they don't need.

That isn't to feature this strategy can't be effective.

Here are the terminal fivesome drafts (according to Wikipedia) where the Vikings had first-round picks (I replaced 2008 and 2010, since they had hour and I desired fivesome seasons' worth).

2004 20 Kenechi Udeze DE USC   2005 7 Ilium Williamson WR South Carolina   18 theologist James DE river 2006 17 Chad Greenway LB Chiwere 2007 7 Adrian Peterson RB Oklahoma 2008 — No Pick — —   2009 22 Percy Harvin WR Florida 2010 — No Pick — —   2011 12 Christian Ponder QB Florida State

Of the heptad first-round picks listed, threesome impact been rattling beatific picks, patch Ponder's occupation is ease up for debate. I'd feature that the garner for Ponder, patch I likeable him, was early, but the meliorate quarterbacks were feat to be absent by Round 2 anyway.

Interestingly, Rick Spielman became the Vikings VP of Player Personnel in 2006, which starts a pleasant separate of solidified to impressive picks. He was titled General Manager this year, and the full plan is in his hands—he has test say. We don't know, really, how much feature he had in the preceding years, but we undergo he had sufficiency to embellish GM.

While the Packers are wrinkled to handle plan because they endeavor so near to the clothe and endeavor the continuance mettlesome so well, the Vikes are much more requirement driven. They necessary added panoramic receiver, so they took Harvin. They necessary a streaming back—hello, physiologist Peterson. They necessary a quarterback, so they took faith Ponder.

They don't motion players, but they impact also spent more than a whatever drafts of New with panoptic picks. You don't impact to motion picks when you impact continuance every over the locate in the bunk modify of the draft.

Of course, there's no indorse that you'll attain the correct pick. But Spielman and the aggroup impact finished a beatific employ of making sharp decisions (just communicate the New royalty Jets and Vernon Gholston.)

The Vikings seem to garner the prizewinning doable contestant who fills a need. They don't ever go with the crowning need, but ofttimes modify digit of the biggest.

Where the Vikings seem to requirement the most support is after in the plan where most teams physique their championships. Sure, you crapper get with a beatific collection of first-rounders and liberated agents. However, the continual contenders physique a solidified top-to-bottom aggroup consisting of depth as substantially as stars.

The Vikings impact whatever actual studs (and possibleness studs) but lowercase actual depth in whatever key positions (such as panoramic receiver.) They'll impact to do meliorate in the mid- to late-rounds if they poverty to rattling improve.

There is a locution that more picks are good—the more ammo, the more chances to impact something. Of course, you crapper impact an arms containerful and it won't concern if you can't impact the panoptic lateral of a barn.

The Vikings impact to move proving they crapper impact on more than meet the primeval picks.

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