What if the Vikings had listened to Mike Mayock?

We mentioned the other day that former NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock is now the General Manager of the Oakland Raiders. As a bit of a fun exercise, some of our fellow SB Nation football sites have taken a look back over the years and wondered what would have happened if Mayock had been the GM of their respective teams over the years and how different the team could, potentially, look.

Mayock started doing mock drafts in 2011, and put out exactly one every year a day or two before the actual draft took place. So, we’re taking all of the picks that he had for the Minnesota Vikings in those mocks and comparing them to what the Vikings actually did. I know that the Vikings did some…