Where do we think the team should go first?
It’s Draft Week, folks! Yes, this Thursday, the National Football League will kick off its annual selection meeting, and on Saturday it will all be over with and we’ll be wondering what the heck we’re supposed to do for the next three months until training camp starts.
As part of our SB Nation Reacts survey for this week, we asked you fine folks some questions about what we think our Minnesota Vikings are going to do in this year’s Draft. We had two questions for you, one of which had a pretty solid consensus and the other. . .well, not so much.
We’ll start with what folks think Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and company are going to do with the 24th overall pick in the first round. If the majority of our readers get their way, they won’t be picking at #24 at all.
Over three-fourths of those who responded to our survey believe that the Vikings will make a move to trade down from the 24th selection to acquire some more capital in this year’s Draft. That makes sense. . .after all, the Vikings only have four picks as things stand right now, which is the fewest of any of the 32 teams. Trying to get more picks seems like the smart play. However, as we always say, in order to move down, you have to find someone who wants to move up. We’ll see how much of an appetite there is for that on Thursday night.
Of the other two options, 21% of our respondents believe that the Vikings will stay put and make their pick at #24, while 2% believe the Vikings will somehow move up the board instead. I’m not sure what they’re giving up in that scenario, to be honest.
At some point in the 2025 NFL Draft, the Vikings are going to have to actually make a selection. Well, in theory, anyway. . .I guess they could trade all their picks and not have to make any selections at all, but I don’t think that’s terribly likely. Our friends at FanDuel put their odds on which position the team would select with their first pick, whenever they make it, and there’s a pretty significant divide among those who responded to our poll.
Of the six potential options, four of them garnered at least 20% of the vote from our respondents. The leading position was the offensive line, which got 29% of the vote, with cornerback close behind at 27%. The defensive line came in next with 21% of the selections and the safety spot rounded out the top four at 20%.
A lot of this, in my opinion, is going to depend on whether or not the Vikings do make a move out of the 24 spot and who falls to them. It seems like there’s always a player or two who drops way down the board in the first round who has no business falling that far, and the Vikings could stand to benefit from that sort of a drop if a player they have graded highly lands in their laps. Then again, since I’m part of the crowd that’s hoping they trade down in Round 1, we might have to see who’s there at the start of Round 2.
If I had to pick just one, I’d have to lean towards the defensive line, but that’s a deep enough position where it could potentially be addressed later if the Vikings play their cards correctly.
Those are the results of our SB Nation Reacts poll for this week, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you to all of you who responded to our questions for this week, and keep an eye out for the next one!