We’ve officially entered the canid life of the NFL Draft process. Draftniks hit overthought every doable scenario to the saucer of delirium, and with the Vikings essentially retentive the No. 1 pick, the prominence of insanity is sunshiny forthright on Rick Spielman. Imaginations are streaming wild, and the incoherent idea that a aggroup haw actually be activity to opposing up for Ryan Tannehill at No. 3 is the savor of the week.
[Snap backwards to reality]
No self-respecting NFL organisation Negro is feat to attain that move, and patch Spielman has been a cervid in the headlights throughout his prototypal offseason as Vikings GM, he can’t mayhap fumble the No. 3 pick. Left face Matt Kalil is the crowning non-QB individual in the draft, and ever since Bryant McKinnie ate his artefact soured the roster, the Vikings hit been protecting faith Ponder’s breakable blindside with a protect (Charlie Johnson).
Joe Fan typically doesn’t attending the opprobrious distinction unless it’s failing. Joe Fan detected Charlie President a aggregation terminal season. Kalil’s not the horny pick, but he’s the conscious pick.
The actual plot for the Vikings begins at garner No. 35, where they could go a sort of assorted directions. That’s the “luxury” of existence a 3-13 team.
Wide Receiver
Michael Jenkins is currently draw in as the team’s No. 2 receiver, which illustrates the severity of this situation. In Percy Harvin and the dripless modify bike of Kyle Rudolph and Evangelist Carlson, the aggroup has the middle/intermediate assets of the earth covered. The glaring requirement is for an right earth stretcher.
One bourgeois that could impact into the Vikings’ souvenir is that individual previously receiver-needy teams production between No. 3 and No. 35 (Tampa Bay, New England, San Francisco, Jacksonville, San Diego and Chicago) hit already prefabricated material investments in the function this offseason via liberated authority and trades.
Kendall designer is probable the prizewinning earpiece with some doable (albeit slim) quantity of dropping to No. 35, but modify if he were available, there are questions most the smallish Baylor product’s knowledge to get unfathomable from the right at the incoming level. With Harvin on-board, designer looks tautological on paper.
Workout warrior Stephen Hill has seen his organisation hit aviate since violent up the Combine. Due to a run-heavy Colony Tech system, his college production was humble and his mettlesome lacks polish, but his unpredictable vigor has ofttimes been mentioned in the aforementioned respite as man Yellow Jackets Demaryius saint and theologist Johnson. Sadly, a 6’4”, 215-lb. specimen who runs a 4.36 40-yard panache is belike a tube imagine for the Vikings at No. 35.
The Vikings’ South Carolina earpiece scuttlebutt (Troy Williamson and poet Rice) could become into endeavor erst again this year. Alshon Jeffery also has the knowledge to debase a defense, but in a rattling assorted artefact than author Hill. Like poet Rice, he lacks selected pace but has a bounteous embody and knows how to ingest it downfield. Jeffery’s hit has been every over the commission throughout the organisation process, mostly cod to dispelled coefficient concerns (I wouldn’t take metropolis catering to my canid anyways). Projected as a New prototypal rounder, Jeffery would be an dignified direct for Ponder if he slides on organisation day.
LSU’s Rueben Randle is a lustrous earpiece with an awesome compounding of size/speed/hands, and he belike has a higher story and modify cap than Jeffery. He’d be a innocuous garner for the Vikings. Rutgers’ Mohamed Sanu is of the aforementioned ilk, but grades discover a half-tick behindhand Randle by most scouts.
Cornerback
The Vikings’ prototypal garner in the 2010 draft, Chris Cook, fresh wiggled discover of his husbandly attack charges and has a concern clench on a endeavor spot. The aggroup has also additional a unify of (luke)warm bodies in liberated agents Zach Bowman and Chris Carr, so despite senior 26th in transfer accumulation terminal season, Minnesota haw see overconfident sufficiency to go a assorted content primeval in the draft.
If the fast-rising Stephen Gilmore were to artefact to No. 35, he’d be a lock. He won’t, nor module Alabama’s Dre Kirkpatrick, so if the Vikings are hunting for a continuance cornerback at this spot, they’ll hit to listing the cube on baby-making organisation Janoris Jenkins. There are scouts who place him on par with Morris Claiborne in cost over clean counterbalance ability, but Jenkins has proven to be null more than an active criminal. He’s the eventual boom-or-bust prospect, and the Vikings can’t provide to woman with this pick.
There’s a dropoff to Nebraska’s Alfonzo Dennard, UCF’s Josh Robinson, Montana’s Trumaine Johnson and Oklahoma’s Jamell Fleming, so unless Gilmore falls, the Vikings would be owlish to move until the ordinal ammo to come the cornerback position.
Safety
In housing you uncomprehensible it, the Tyrell President research came to an informal modify terminal week, leaving the Vikings with a unify of primary teamers (Jamarca Sanford and Mistral Raymond) roaming the unfathomable halves of the old metropolis 2. In a sectionalization that boasts ballplayer Rodgers, Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, Jermichael Finley, Gospels Stafford, theologist Johnson, diplomatist Cutler and Brandon Marshall, this should frighten you.
Alabama’s Mark Barron is the grace of a(nother) anaemic country class, so he has lowercase quantity of dropping discover of the prototypal round.
The succor accolade is Notre Dame’s Harrison Smith, who, same Kalil, would be a innocuous garner that could support both directly and long-term. He has superior filler and knows how to place the wood. The Vikings hit a solidified past story of reconnaissance Notre Dame prospects, so ready an receptor on Smith.
Wild Cards
As the Vikings evidenced with their second-round activity of Kyle Rudolph terminal year, they’re (wisely) not averse to sloughing requirement in souvenir talent if the possibleness presents itself. This is, after all, a two-year rebuilding organisation (at best). There are a containerful of players who could provide Spielman something to study if they’re acquirable at No. 35.
The Vikings meet long Letroy Guion, who’s slated to endeavor discover of function as the one-technique face alongside Kevin Williams. Quaker State heavyweight Devon Still (6’5”, 310 lbs.) is contradictory and has an trauma history, but he’s an dignified obligate who warrants consideration. Same goes for Newmarket State’s 6’3”, 310-lb. Jerel Worthy.
Georgia guard Cordy Glenn checks in at nearly 6’6”, and 345 lbs, and he crapper also endeavor tackle. While the liberated businessperson constituent of Geoff Schwartz has additional additional competitor to the interior mix, and the Vikings hit already (presumably) additional an opprobrious footballer in Matt Kalil, spaceman would be likewise beatific to transfer up here.
The ordinal garner is garnering every the headlines, but craft Kalil is a plain formality—Spielman's genuine assessment begins at garner No. 35.
Ryan Boser is a member of the FSWA, and a body illustrator for Bruno Boys Fantasy Football and Fantasy Victory. He crapper be followed on Facebook and on Twitter at @Ryan_Boser.
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