The 2024 NFL Draft is still over nine months away, and we still have to get through an entire football season before taking any news in that department very seriously, but media outlets have still been releasing mock drafts for next spring in preparation for the coming season.
This past spring, there was some speculation that the Vikings could go for a pass-rusher early in the draft. Given Za’Darius Smith had requested to leave the team in March, and the Vikings had very little in terms of a long-term solution at the position, it made sense to speculate that it could be on the table.