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Draft Selections
Olumuyiwa Fashanu Head Shot
PICK: 11 RND: 1 (MIN)
Olumuyiwa Fashanu
OT Penn State
Chop Robinson Head Shot
PICK: 42 RND: 2 (MIN)
Chop Robinson
DE-EDGE Penn State
Jordan Travis Head Shot
PICK: 108 RND: 4 (MIN)
Jordan Travis
QB Florida State
Tommy Eichenberg Head Shot
PICK: 130 RND: 4 (MIN)
Tommy Eichenberg
LB Ohio State
Braelon Allen Head Shot
PICK: 148 RND: 5 (MIN)
Braelon Allen
RB Wisconsin
Keith Randolph Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 160 RND: 5 (MIN)
Keith Randolph Jr.
DL-EDGE Illinois
Layden Robinson Head Shot
PICK: 166 RND: 5 (MIN)
Layden Robinson
OG Texas A&M
Chau Smith-Wade Head Shot
PICK: 179 RND: 6 (MIN)
Chau Smith-Wade
CB Washington State
Steele Chambers Head Shot
PICK: 230 RND: 7 (MIN)
Steele Chambers
LB Ohio State
Draft Grade — Vikings
Overall B-
ValueB- NeedB+ TradesB- FutureB-
More right than wrong for the Vikings, and a B- to prove it.

Nobody had Jordan Travis this high, and it is not close. The Vikings reached 28 spots to get him at the 108th overall pick. It nets out to a B-, which feels about right.

If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through safety. That Smith-Wade pick is the receipt they will wave around later.

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

Pick Analysis
Pick11 Rnd1 Olumuyiwa Fashanu
In the 11th pick they get protection for the quarterback. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Pick42 Rnd2 Chop Robinson
A clean, defensible pick in Round 2, Pick 10 with a little surplus value in Chop Robinson. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick108 Rnd4 Jordan Travis
Jordan Travis at the Round 4 slot is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick130 Rnd4 Tommy Eichenberg
Good price on Tommy Eichenberg in pick No. 130, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
Pick148 Rnd5 Braelon Allen
A straight-up fair deal on Braelon Allen at No. 148, value and slot in agreement. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Pick160 Rnd5 Keith Randolph Jr.
Keith Randolph Jr. at the 160th overall pick is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Pick166 Rnd5 Layden Robinson
Layden Robinson in Round 5, Pick 30 is fair value, right on his grade. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Pick179 Rnd6 Chau Smith-Wade
A slide stopped in slot 179, with Chau Smith-Wade worth more than the price. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
Pick230 Rnd7 Steele Chambers
A market-rate linebacker, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Steele Chambers. They added to a strength when a need was still open elsewhere.