The Minnesota Vikings were originally set to draft at the 14th spot of the first round Thursday night. Instead, despite the fact that two of the top OT prospects fell into their lap in Alijah Vera-Tucker and Christian Darrisaw of Virginia Tech. If you watched the live Draft stream of the first-round you would’ve seen two-thirds of the UFFda! crew absolutely losing their minds over the trade down. However, somehow, someway, mostly courtesy of the Las Vegas Raiders, the Vikings got their man at 23 and gained picks 66, and 86 (while giving up 143).
That positions the Vikings well for Day 2, whether or not they want to trade into the second round or not, to add more offensive line help and also shore up the edge.