Well, from most perspectives, anyway

Anyone that’s followed this site for any length of time knows that I, personally, am not a big fan of draft “grades” that come out before any of these players have even taken a snap. However, I also recognize that there are a lot of people out there that are, and so I’ve put together a quick roundup of some of the grades that the team has been given by some of the Really Smart Football People™ out there to get their initial thoughts on the Minnesota Vikings and what they did on Thursday night....

From both perspectives, even

One of the highlights of any Draft weekend in the NFL comes from the teams releasing the footage of each of their draftees getting the biggest phone call of their lives from the team’s front office. While I’m sure the Minnesota Vikings will release footage of all of their draftees getting the call sometime after the 2024 NFL Draft is over, we already have footage of their first selection getting his notification.

Earlier this morning, the Vikings released their video of Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and Kevin O’Connell talking to Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy when they made him...

And you can get in on the fun

For the first time in franchise history, the Minnesota Vikings selected a quarterback with a top ten Draft choice on Thursday night when they selected Michigan star J.J. McCarthy in the 2024 NFL Draft. To celebrate, our friends from BreakingT have already put together a couple of pretty nice designs to commemorate his selection.

You can get a better look at the shirts as part of the Minnesota Collection over at BreakingT, and both of these designs are pretty nice.

One of them is a black shirt with a picture of McCarthy...

But is it going to matter?

Last night was a pretty exciting first round of the 2024 NFL Draft for the Minnesota Vikings, and I think that’s something that we can all admit. However, in all that excitement, it turns out that the Vikings are currently a bit short of capital for next year’s NFL Draft.

After making the trade that allowed them to select Alabama edge defender Dallas Turner, the Vikings are now down to just three draft picks for next year’s selection meeting: their first-round pick and a pair of fifth-rounders.

Where did all those picks go? Well,...

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The top edge rusher on the board finds his way to Minnesota

After making yet another dramatic move up the board in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Minnesota Vikings have acquired a dynamic defensive player and one of the top edge rushers in this year’s class.

With the 17th pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Minnesota Vikings have selected Edge defender Dallas Turner from the University of Alabama.

Going into this year’s Draft, Turner’s name was atop just about everybody’s list of the best edge defenders in this year’s class. However, with the first 14 players coming off the...

Another move up the board

The Minnesota Vikings have made another move up the draft board, this time swinging a deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars

The Vikings have moved up to the #17 overall pick, which they used to select Alabama edge rusher Dallas Turner. In exchange, the Jaguars received #23 overall, pick #167, a 2023 third-round pick, and a 2023 fourth-round pick.

This is another huge trade for the Vikings, as they’ve now acquired the player that many thought was the top edge player on the board going into this draft. He’s going to have the opportunity to work...

The quarterback of the future has arrived

It’s been a decade since the Minnesota Vikings took a swing at a quarterback of the future in the NFL Draft, but now the team has selected someone that they hope will be the face of the franchise for a long time to come.

With the 11th pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Minnesota Vikings have selected J.J. McCarthy, the quarterback from the University of Michigan.

McCarthy has risen up draft boards pretty rapidly over the past couple of months, which likely comes as a surprise to some. However, McCarthy has all...

Not a big trade at all

The Minnesota Vikings have executed the first trade of the 2024 NFL Draft, and they’ve done it with the New York Jets.

The Vikings have moved up one spot to the tenth overall pick. They also receive pick #203 overall from the Jets in exchange for picks #11, #129, and #157.

This means that the Vikings are, likely, going to be selecting a quarterback in the top ten for the first time in franchise history. Prior to now, their highest selected quarterback was at #11 when they selected Daunte Culpepper at that spot in...

It’s finally here!

It’s here, everybody! Well, it’s almost here. . .about half an hour from now.

Yes, we are less than an hour away from the start of the 2024 NFL Draft and what should be an incredibly interesting moment in the future of our Minnesota Vikings. Right now, they’ve got two picks in the first round at #11 and #23, but we’re still expecting some sort of hot trade action to take place before too long involving our favorite team.

This is where the discussion will start for tonight. Once we get a bunch of comments, we’ll probably...

A way of hyping up this year’s International Series

Over the course of the last few years, it’s become a bit of a thing for NFL teams to announce some of their Day 3 draft picks from different locations that are connected to the team in some way. For this year’s NFL Draft, the Minnesota Vikings plan to carry on this tradition from a place that’s never seen it done before.

The Vikings have announced that one of their Day 3 picks. . .and they haven’t specified which one. . .will be announced from the site of Stonehenge in Wiltshire...

There haven’t been very many of them over the years

We’re getting ready for the start of the 2024 NFL Draft from Detroit, and we want to take a look back. . .since we’re killing time and we’re all rumored out at the moment. . .at what the Minnesota Vikings have done in past drafts with certain picks.

The biggest rumor of the pre-draft process for the purple thus far has been that they will be moving way up to draft a quarterback, perhaps even into the top five selections. The Vikings have never taken a quarterback higher than #11...