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Dallas Turner Head Shot
PICK: 11 RND: 1 (MIN)
Dallas Turner
LB-EDGE Alabama
Kool-Aid McKinstry Head Shot
PICK: 23 RND: 1 (MIN)
Kool-Aid McKinstry
CB Alabama
Javon Foster Head Shot
PICK: 108 RND: 4 (MIN)
Javon Foster
OT Missouri
Ainias Smith Head Shot
PICK: 129 RND: 4 (MIN)
Ainias Smith
WR Texas A&M
Luke McCaffrey Head Shot
PICK: 167 RND: 5 (MIN)
Luke McCaffrey
WR Rice
Nathaniel Watson Head Shot
PICK: 177 RND: 6 (MIN)
Nathaniel Watson
LB Mississippi State
Trey Taylor Head Shot
PICK: 230 RND: 7 (MIN)
Trey Taylor
S Air Force
Fabien Lovett Head Shot
PICK: 232 RND: 7 (MIN)
Fabien Lovett
DL Florida State
Draft Picks Traded
Chau Smith-Wade Head Shot
PICK: 157 RND: 5 (GB)
Chau Smith-Wade
CB Washington State
Players Gained
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Jordan Love
QB
Players traded away
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Sam Darnold
QB
Draft Grade — Vikings
Overall B+
ValueB- NeedB TradesA+ FutureB-
The Vikings cashed the board's mistake on Lovett: B+.

This is the pick they will still be bragging about in July: Fabien Lovett, the No. 183 name on the board, stolen at Round 7, Pick 12. It nets out to a B+, which feels about right.

Reaching for Watson left real value on the table behind him. They robbed the room blind at the table, and it lifts the grade on its own. That quarterback hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.

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

Pick Analysis
Pick11 Rnd1 Dallas Turner
In Round 1, Pick 11 they get a premier pass rusher at fair value. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Pick23 Rnd1 Kool-Aid McKinstry
In No. 23 they get a sticky cover corner. Need was not the driver here.
Pick108 Rnd4 Javon Foster
A conviction pick on Javon Foster at pick 108 that the board grades a round light. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick129 Rnd4 Ainias Smith
Ainias Smith at pick No. 129 jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Pick167 Rnd5 Luke McCaffrey
Taking Luke McCaffrey in the 167th pick is close to grand larceny; a wide receiver that good had no business lasting this long. A need, and now a little less of one.
Pick177 Rnd6 Nathaniel Watson
Nathaniel Watson at slot 177 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Pick230 Rnd7 Trey Taylor
Trey Taylor in the 230th overall pick is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Pick232 Rnd7 Fabien Lovett
A top-tier interior defensive lineman at a bargain, Fabien Lovett in the Round 7 slot, plain and simple. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.