Vikings fifth-round pick makes Brian Flores's defense A LOT scarier

Tyler Forness describes the role that 2025 NFL Draft pick Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins from the Georgia Bulldogs will play for the Minnesota Vikings.

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00:00the minnesota vikings got themselves a really intriguing guy in the fifth round

00:04and it could pay off huge dividends now and in the future let's talk about it

00:09one of the interesting things about the minnesota vikings draft class

00:15is it was relatively small it was only five players the first time that that had happened

00:19since the 2008 and 2009 seasons now in those years the vikings were preparing to one go to

00:27the playoffs back to back which they still have not done since and they were setting up for a

00:34potential super bowl run which they narrowly missed out on thanks to bounty gate and one of the

00:39interesting things about those draft classes is one of them they didn't have a first round pick

00:43this year they did and they chose donovan jackson but it was how they maneuvered later on in the

00:50process to be able to get a guy at the top of the fifth round to really maximize what this defensive

00:55run can be and really epitomize how brian flores likes to use his defense versatility that is

01:03georgia defensive lineman tyrian ingram dawkins who came in just under 6'5 275 pounds a real tweener

01:11kind of player but the athleticism is excellent there's one problem he's not quite a good football

01:20player yet you get flashes of it but he's not all the way there and he because he's a tweener it's

01:25like okay how are you going to try and utilize this guy are you going to have him lose a bunch

01:29weight you haven't put on weight and when you do those kind of things it can limit their effectiveness

01:33so what's the best path forward luckily for the vikings they know just how to do that they had a role

01:41specifically for him last year and it was the role that jihad ward played ward being like a 280 pound

01:47edge rusher they used him as a three technique and one technique in the middle of the defense

01:53and they did that with their nascar package where they had four edge rushers having a quick guy on

01:59the interior can really make an impact especially when you're trying to do stunts and slants which

02:03the vikings love to do under flores but it's also that quick penetration the vikings just didn't have

02:08anybody to be able to do that and when you have jonathan allen and jvon hargrave having that extra

02:13element could really make a difference plus on base downs you could have him as a stand-up edge

02:19and he can play a really nice run defense set the edge and be physical now you're getting him in the

02:25fifth round which means you're not getting a perfect player not even getting a complete player you're

02:29getting a player with upside and you've seen what that upside can be at georgia because he flashed it a

02:36lot one of the things that's a problem with georgia players is they're kind of just asked to do a

02:41specific role and they don't have a they're not fully coached up that's where the nfl comes in

02:47now you're going to get into the room with brian flores marcus dixon and they are going to take you

02:52and build you up and potentially make you a starting caliber player within the next couple of seasons

02:57and because of that athleticism the sky is the limit we can't guarantee that he's going to get there

03:02but there's already a role perfect on this defense for him jihad ward and pat jones roles he can do both

03:09of them and because of that it makes his defense a potentially a lot scarier moving forward

03:15i'm tyler fronis with adz sports skull vikings