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The latest NFL Mock Drafts have the Minnesota Vikings GOING HARD at one position
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3/27/2025
Tyler Forness discusses what he's discovered the trend to be for the Minnesota Vikings headed into the 2025 NFL Draft.
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The NFL Draft is fast approaching and there's some fascinating trends
00:03
happening with the Minnesota Vikings.
00:05
What are they and what do they mean?
00:07
Let's talk about it.
00:11
The Minnesota Vikings are a fascinating team to cover,
00:14
and it's getting even more fascinating heading into the NFL Draft.
00:18
Free agency, they did exactly what they wanted to accomplish.
00:21
They fortified the trenches on both sides of the ball.
00:23
Will Fries and Ryan Kelly in the interior of the offensive line.
00:25
Javon Hargrave and Jonathan Allen in the interior of the defensive line.
00:29
What that ended up doing, along with the signings of Byron Murphy
00:32
and Isaiah Rogers, was it fortified the positions of needs so much
00:36
that they can kind of go in any direction they want,
00:39
which also leads to fascinating trends when it comes to mock drafts.
00:43
I'm the foremost expert when it comes to Minnesota Vikings mock drafts.
00:45
I have collected 367 mock drafts since the beginning of the calendar year.
00:50
Yes, 367 industry mock drafts.
00:53
And I have a strict threshold.
00:55
You got to know what you're doing in order to be included in this list.
00:59
And one of the reasons I do that is I want to see how things change.
01:01
I want to see how things grow, adapt, evolve over the course of time.
01:06
And of those 367 selections, we have 11 offensive linemen,
01:11
nine cornerbacks, eight defensive tackles, five running backs,
01:14
five edge rushers, three safeties, one linebacker, one wide receiver.
01:18
That one wide receiver is Travis Hunter,
01:21
who was projected to go to the Vikings in January
01:24
in one of the early mock drafts.
01:26
It was a little weird to see him down that far,
01:28
but we know how Deion Sanders Colorado program is viewed nationwide.
01:32
It's not consistent.
01:33
Some people really don't like the program.
01:36
And therefore, the players kind of get the brunt of that.
01:40
And that's why you have one wide receiver.
01:42
But what's really interesting over the course of the last couple of weeks
01:47
is how things have grown and evolved.
01:50
Since free agency started, so just in the last two weeks,
01:54
we have seen 20 different players selected.
01:57
But what's really interesting is of the those total 367,
02:01
300 of them were on defense, which understandable.
02:04
Hundred twenty three, a cornerback.
02:06
Seventy five of them at safety. Well.
02:10
Just in the 76 of the last two weeks,
02:15
37 of them, 37.
02:20
We're at safety.
02:21
The NFL draft community and analysts alike are really shifting
02:24
towards the Minnesota Vikings, taking a safety.
02:27
However, it's really interesting that they're being projected to do that
02:32
because Kweisi Opometz has been on record saying, hey,
02:34
I probably shouldn't have taken a safety that high.
02:37
It didn't work out. Now look where we are.
02:40
Is Lewis seen going to prevent them from taking Malachi Starks,
02:43
who's been selected 36 times, 18 in the last two weeks,
02:47
or Nicky Aminwori from South Carolina, who's been selected 37 times,
02:51
also 18 of which in the last two weeks.
02:54
Xavier Watts from Notre Dame was also selected once,
02:55
but he's probably not going in round one.
02:57
He's probably a mid round two, early round three kind of player.
03:01
Will Kweisi Opometz do that?
03:03
Will he want to take a safety?
03:05
I think he's going to do what Brian Flores wants and how Flores is like to play.
03:09
Three safety looks.
03:10
Plus, those guys can play nickel.
03:13
And that means that you can really focus on your outside cornerbacks
03:15
and you can have that kind of versatility, which he loves to have that versatility.
03:20
So it'll be interesting to see how it parses out.
03:22
But it's clear that the shift is going towards safety,
03:27
not cornerback, but safety.
03:29
Is that the right trend?
03:31
We're going to find out more how that trend is going to continue,
03:34
because right now we have two weeks of data
03:35
on that shift post beginning of free agency.
03:38
Jade Baron had six elections and Siobhan Revel Jr. had five.
03:42
So cornerback is still a priority for these mock drafters.
03:46
Will it be a priority for the Vikings?
03:48
Time will tell.
03:49
But there's some really intriguing prospects,
03:51
and we're going to dive into that throughout the rest of draft
03:55
season here on this channel.
03:56
And you're going to want to hit that subscribe button.
03:59
I'm Tyler Furnas with AZ Sports.
04:01
It's called Vikings.
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