Eleven weeks of the Minnesota Vikings’ offseason are within the rearview, and the 2025 NFL Draft arrives in lower than 4 weeks.
5 Freaky — However Doable — Draft Outcomes for the Vikings
The membership has added a few dozen new gamers this offseason, together with Ryan Kelly (C), Will Fries (G), Jonathan Allen (DT), Javon Hargrave (DT), Jordan Mason (RB, commerce), Isaiah Rodgers (CB), Jeff Okudah (CB), and Rondale Moore (WR) from free company along with extending the contracts of Aaron Jones (RB), Byron Murphy Jr. (CB), Theo Jackson (S), and Harrison Smith (S).
This specific draft, for the Vikings’ sake, is kind of unpredictable, because it might bend in any path. The franchise has no single dire roster want.
However these are the outlandish — actually freaky — attainable outcomes, ranked in ascending order of chance (No. 1=outlandish however probably to happen of the 5).
5. Tetairoa McMillan (WR) Slides to Vikings
The Situation:
Arizona vast receiver experiences a draft night time tumble, all the way in which to the Vikings spot at No. 24, and valuing the “greatest participant out there” mantra, Minnesota has no alternative however to pick him.
Minnesota would instantly develop into extremely deep at vast receiver and on offense, whereas J.J. McCarthy utilized a weapon secure so dazzling that he couldn’t fail.
In a lesser diploma of freaky end result, one might swap McMillan with Matthew Golden, Emeka Egbuka, or Luther Burden II right here.
4. The Greatest Participant Accessible … Is an EDGE Rusher
The Situation:
Though it doesn’t want an EDGE rusher — in any respect — Minnesota takes one anyway as a result of, like McMillan above, the man is just too good to disregard.
The idea would apply to considered one of these males:
- Jalon Walker (Georgia)
- Shemar Stewart (Texas A&M)
- Mykel Williams (Georgia)
- Mike Inexperienced (Marshall)
Followers may groan initially, however they’d recover from it.
3. Jihaad Campbell, an Off-Ball LB, Is the Choose
The Situation:
Minnesota doesn’t want an off-ball linebacker for the lengthy haul however drafts Jihadd Campbell anyway as a result of he’s a baller.
Blake Cashman and Ivan Tempo Jr. are the Vikings’ beginning linebackers, however to get deep-deep on protection and since Campbell is a sure-thing draft commodity, Adofo-Mensah picks Campbell at No. 24.
Just about no mock drafter has linked Campbell to Minnesota.
2. It’s Omarion Hampton (RB) at No. 24
The Situation:
Ashton Jeanty flies off the draftboard to the Las Vegas Raiders or Chicago Bears. Hampton is the subsequent RB — to the Vikings at No. 24.
When Adofo-Mensah traded from Jordan Mason two weeks in the past, most observers thought, “Oh, effectively. Appears to be like like they’re not drafting a operating again early.”
Right here, that take is mistaken, and Minnesota swipes Hampton any rattling approach.
1. Vikings Draft Colston Loveland (TE)
The Situation:
Colston Loveland falls previous his former school coach within the draft, Jim Harbaugh of the Los Angeles Chargers, and reunites along with his former school quarterback, J.J. McCarthy.
Minnesota has simply two tight ends on the depth chart — T.J. Hockenson and Josh Oliver — and Loveland is simply too irresistible at No. 24. He and McCarthy translate Michigan majesty to Minnesota.
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 company, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple group, 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 carefully as the NFL.
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