Thirty-one other rooms let Will Howard slide, and the Vikings were the ones holding the card at the Round 5 slot. Highway robbery. A dependable weekend that grades out a B.

Every board in the league had Pegues lower, and that gap is the story. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped edge rusher, which is a strange place to end up. They left with quarterback solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

They came away with juice, if not much beef up front.

Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.