Vikings mock draft: seven rounds, eight picks and, yes, one quarterback
Star Tribune Vikings beat reporter Ben Goessling predicts how the team will use its nine draft picks and secure a quarterback of the future.
Is this the most important draft pick in Vikings history?
The Vikings have never chosen a quarterback with a Top 10 pick. It feels like they will do so tonight, which gives strength to the argument.
Scoggins: Worried about costly trade to draft a quarterback? Don't be.
Which one, at what pick, for what cost? If the Vikings draft a quarterback who becomes a star, you won't remember what they paid to get him.
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Mason West quarterbacked the Hornets to the Class 6A football final and starred on the school's state-title winning hockey team. The 6-6 standout also wants you to know about how he sees himself.
Naz Reid. That's the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year winner.
Reid is the first player in Wolves history to win the award and only the undrafted player to win it. The vote was very close.
Next phase of O'Connell's quarterback journey begins tonight
In the first round of the NFL draft tonight, the Vikings could make franchise history with a choice coach Kevin O'Connell was hired two years ago to make.
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