In much the same way that the salmon return to Capistrano every year, so too does the advent of mock draft season around the National Football League. With the Minnesota Vikings and their fans already looking ahead to this April’s selection meeting, it’s time to start monitoring what some of the experts are looking at for our favorite team.
Perhaps the most famous draft expert of them all, Mel Kiper Jr., has put together his first mock draft of the offseason. (It’s behind the great E$PN paywall, as you’d expect.) With the Vikings’ pick at #12, Kiper has them going in a direction that may seem very familiar to fans from the past few years.