Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Day 2 was fun no? I am usually glued to the networks and this board during the draft but since we had no picks and Kwesi was out of ammo unless he was going to trade the 2025 first round pick, it was more than likely he sat tight. I expect he will be trading down with the first pick.
News and Links
2024 NFL Draft: Round 3 schedule and current Vikings picks
The T.J. Hockenson trade is (basically) complete
Dallas Turner an early co-favorite to win Defensive Rookie of the Year
2024 NFL Draft Grades: Vikings crush Round 1
The Vikings are a bit short on 2025 Draft capital
Vikings Day 3 NFL Draft Preview: Picks, Needs, Possible Targets on Saturday
Vikings 2024 draft picks
* Round 1, Pick 10: J.J. McCarthy, QB, Michigan
* Round 1, Pick 17: Dallas Turner, OLB, Alabama
* Round 4, Pick 108
* Round 6, Pick 177
* Round 6, Pick 203
* Round 7, Pick 230
* Round 7, Pick 232
What draft analysts are saying about the Vikings’ first-round picks
Reid and his ESPN colleague Matt Miller agree that Minnesota’s two trades were the best of the night.
“The Vikings made two trades up the board in the first round, but I like the second move the most,” said Miller. “Turner was my No. 7 overall player in the class, and Minnesota landed him at No. 17 before the run on defensive ends happened. It was a timely and savvy trade up to get ahead of the Rams (No. 19), plus a real steal on value.”
Top remaining players for Minnesota Vikings at 108 overall
Vikings Don’t Have Many Draft Picks Remaining in 2024 and 2025
Metric Points to Vikings’ 1st-Round Pick as ‘Biggest Steal’ of 2024 Draft
“If we combine the value lost by the Vikings’ two trades (earlier deal with Texans to get to 23, then deal to move from 23 to 17), they burned the equivalent of an extra mid-first-round pick,” ESPN’s Seth Walder posted on X on April 25. “In other words: they basically spent *two* mid-firsts on Dallas Turner.”
Teasing an article for next week, but when teams trade up for an edge rusher, they:
– fail to produce the expected value from the picks given up 62% of the time (coming up about 25% short)
– the team trading down lands the best individual player in the trade 56% of the time
As Sports Illustrated reports, both the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings did make the Patriots offers for No. 3. Earlier in the week, the Vikings offered No. 11 and No. 23 in this year’s draft while also adding its 2025 first-rounder with pick swaps favoring Minnesota. That offer ticked up when the Patriots were eventually on the clock. As for the Giants, they offered No. 6 overall as well as their 2025 first-rounder.
New England probably will spend some time second guessing themselves for not accepting the Vikings offer. They could have had JJ McCarty at 11 and Brian Thomas Jr at 23 and used 34 on whatever they wanted instead of Ja’Lynn Polk. And they would have had the Vikings 2025 first round pick that has a decent chance of being in the top 15.
Yore Day 3 Mock
Trades
Trade Partner: Eagles
Send: 4.108
Received: 4.123, 5.171
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Trade Partner: Chiefs
Send: 4.123
Received: 4.131, 6.211
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4.131 Tanor Bortolini OC Wisconsin 6’4.2” 303 (21.8 years old)
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5.171 Malik Mustapha S Wake Forest 5’11” 207 (21.8 years old)
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6.177 Jase McClellan RB Alabama 5’11” 212 (21.8 years old)
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6.203 Myles Harden CB South Dakota 6’0” 200 (22.3 years old)
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6.211 Joshua Karty PK Stanford 6’2” 208
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7.230 Myles Murphy DT North Carolina 6’4” 310 (22.4 years old)
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7.232 Jordan Jefferson DT LSU 6’3” 313 (22.5 years old)
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The youth movement is underway! I doubt the defensive tackles last to the 7th but they might. Double dipping might be foolish but with the odds of late round picks making the team or eventually becoming a solid contributor being low, may as well take the chance eh?
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