One Day to the Draft: Greatest Vikings’ First-Round Pick, 1990-Present

Just a few minutes ago, we did the first half of our look at past first-round draft picks of the Minnesota Vikings. That post spanned the time period from 1961 to 1989, and now we’re going to look at the group from 1990 to the present day. Just as there were some awfully impressive names on the first list, there are a lot of greats here as well. So, let’s not delay any further and get to them now.

Daunte Culpepper, QB, Central Florida - A guy that a not-insignificant segment of Vikings’ fandom loved to hate, Culpepper is on the short list of best quarterbacks the Vikings have had that weren’t named Tarkenton. He had a truly historic season in 2004, and frankly probably should have been the…