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ESPN Starts Mock Draft Season with Curveball for Vikings

Think the Minnesota Vikings will finally draft a quarterback with their 1st-Round pick in 2024?

That’s not a foregone conclusion, at least not per the largest voice in sports.

ESPN Starts Mock Draft Season with Curveball for Vikings

ESPN kicked off mock draft season this week with a publication from analyst and writer Jordan Reid, and although he believes the Vikings should draft a quarterback, he plopped a defensive lineman on Minnesota’s ledger — Jer’Zhan Newton from the University of Illinois.

ESPN Starts Mock Draft
Nov 6, 2021; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Illinois Fighting Illini defensive lineman Jer’Zhan Newton (94) reacts to a missed stop in the third quarter at Huntington Bank Stadium.