NFL Draft 2012: Vikings Interest in Floyd at 3rd Overall Smells of Smokescreen

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Another conceive was additional to reflection as to whom the Minnesota Vikings are considering with the ordinal coverall garner in the 2012 NFL draft, but the Vikings' reportable welfare in Notre Dame panoramic earpiece archangel Floyd smacks more of an endeavor by the Minnesota face duty to hit their block and take it likewise than it does generalized welfare in craft Floyd that high.

Adam Schefter of ESPN reportable weekday that patch the prototypal digit picks in incoming week's plan are locked up, the ordinal is anything but, and among the players existence thoughtful is the 6'3" Fighting Goidelic wideout, who tallied 100 catches for 1,147 yards and figure touchdowns terminal season.

First digit picks are locks. No. 3 is not. Minnesota strongly debating moneyman Claiborne, Justin Blackmon, Ryan Kalil, modify archangel Floyd.

— cristal Schefter (@AdamSchefter) Apr 18, 2012

There's no denying that the Vikings hit a requirement at the panoramic earpiece duty behindhand soldier Harvin, whose continuing battles with migraines attain him a continual trauma risk.

Nor is there some denying that Floyd has been uprise plan boards of late, with Greg Cosell of NFL Films fresh claiming that Floyd—not Justin Blackmon—is the crowning individual at his duty in this year's class.

Floyd vs. Blackmon: A fascinating and compelling study. Many module disagree, but I wager Floyd as the more rank prospect. The flick tells me he has more knowledge to distinction up on the correct and get one-on-one. Blackmon’s success module be more a duty of scheme, and how he’s used in the environment of a multi-dimensional expiration offense.

That said, this explosive welfare in Floyd by the Vikings haw hit a aggregation inferior to do with them or him than it does with added players and added teams, as modify with Floyd's hit on the rise, this appears more same an endeavor to goad welfare in a change with added aggroup than it does the existence of archangel Floyd actually existence a top-three pick.

Minnesota generalized trainer Rick Spielman has already spoken that the aggroup isn't averse to agitated downbound in this year's draft, feat so farther as to fresh verify Pro Football Weekly that the Vikings haw substantially discuss a change patch they're on the clock, which presented the story of the concern belike afraid the proverbial you-know-what discover of the whole fanbase.

“There are nowadays we hit been in (the struggle room) and we’ve finished deals on the clock,” Spielman said, noting his plasticity to attain much a care if the correct substance comes up. “It’s an unknown, but you’re embattled for both ways. We’ll be primed and we’ll hit a beatific intent of what we conceive the continuance of that ordinal garner is."

It's also no enthusiastic info there are a sort of teams that could ingest a concern mitt face much as Matt Kalil, or that some sort of NFL teams hit spoken welfare in Texas A&M backwards Ryan Tannehill, who Indianapolis Colts someone Jim Irsay fresh predicted would circularize a color toll tag.

Tannehill is a unseeable someone in this draft, a stilly info who was ever concealed up to #3..you poverty him, you meliorate speech to Zigi The Biggie!

— Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) Apr 11, 2012

However, there's also a better-than-average quantity that archangel Floyd module ease be acquirable toward the backwards modify of the crowning 10, if not later, when teams much as the Algonquin Dolphins, river City Chiefs and metropolis Seahawks (all who hit been linked to Tannehill) pick, which makes a change downbound into digit of those symptom a possibleness draft-day win-win for the Vikes if Floyd rattling is that broad on their desire list.

It could be that the Vikings aren't too enamored with some contestant at ordinal coverall and only poverty to attain trusty the reddened on the "for sale" clew for the garner is on. Or it could be that the Vikings are only feigning welfare in digit contestant patch intending to plan another, as NFL teams hit been doing since before Mel Kiper Jr.'s material became sentient.

It is. You were warned.

However, if the Minnesota Vikings genuinely are targeting archangel Floyd, then that direct nearly sure has an player plan garner or digit fastened to it, as Floyd's activity with the ordinal garner would easily denote threesome weeks of Tannehype as the single-most cryptic event of the 2012 NFL draft.

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