B
Minnesota Vikings
A franchise passer in Maye headlines a B weekend for the Vikings.
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2024 NFL Draft
· 9 picks
· 6 steals
· 2 reaches
After circling the position for what felt like forever, the Vikings committed. Drake Maye is the quarterback now, and the roster gets built to his timeline. It does the job without flash, and the B reflects it.
That is an offensive lineman worth more than the slot they spent on him, plainly. They are betting Keegan proves the room right and everyone else wrong.
The edge rusher hole is the one line item this class does not answer.
Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 11th overall pick they get a franchise quarterback at fair value. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Jonathon Brooks well ahead of where he belonged. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
They robbed the room for Mike Sainristil here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
They will replay Tykee Smith at pick No. 130 for years; that is how good the value is. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
They let Tommy Eichenberg come to them and pounced at slot 148. A minor need, but a need all the same.
You do not let an offensive lineman like Isaiah Adams reach the Round 5 slot and blink. They did not. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Kamal Hadden in the 165th pick is a gift, value that borders on unfair. Insurance at a position that did not really ask for it.
Somehow McCallan Castles was still sitting there in pick 179, and they pounced on premier tight end value. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
They talked themselves into Trevor Keegan at the Round 7 slot, and the board did not agree. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.