Another Minnesota Vikings 7-Round Mock Draft

As the Scouting Combine is ramping up in Indianapolis, here’s another Minnesota Vikings 7-round mock draft courtesy of PFF. These things are too damn easy. I remember writing all this out with blind guesses as to which players might be available in each round.

1. Jayden Daniels, QB, LSU

2. Darius Robinson, DL, Missouri

4. Max Melton, CB, Rutgers

4. Malik Washington, WR, Virginia

5. Zak Zinter, G, Michigan

5. Myles Murphy, DL, North Carolina

6. Cedric Gray, LB, North Carolina

6. Kimani Vidal, RB, Troy

7. Anim Dankwah, OT, Howard

First of all, PFF must come off of its #22 ranking of Jayden Daniels. His consistent availability at #11 is distracting and wildly unrealistic. The more likely quarterback pick at #11 is Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy.

I’d love Daniels/McCarthy and Darius Robinson in first two rounds. Unfortunately, come draft time, I believe that Robinson will be gone long before the 42nd pick. Enormous Texas defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat is a more realistic second round pick. His unique ability to lock up the middle might even be a greater need than Robinson’s defensive line versatility. 

Max Melton and Malik Washington would be a nice fourth round. 

I’d like to see the Vikings come out of the middle rounds with a guard like Kansas State’s Cooper Beebe or Michigan’s Zak Zinter. Coming off a late season injury, it’s probably more likely that Zinter will be available, especially in the fifth round. 

Myles Murphy, Cedric Gray, Kimani Vidal, and Anim Dankwah are some of the players projected in the later rounds that intrigue me through these early days of the draft evaluation process.