2010 NFL Draft: Minnesota Vikings Select Stanford Running Back Toby Gerhart With the 51st Overall Pick

I feel we should have taken mays or nate allen over of chris cook – but i’m excited about toby

i wanted Mays

I wanted to pair him with Best and run the ball down your throats. I yelled FUCK!!!! at my tv when the Vikes made this pick. Very nice pick

This is what they had to say, check out the fourth line from the bottom…

The only Heisman Trophy finalists that don’t get selected in the first round are usually quarterbacks, but Gerhart might not get to the podium until the second or third because he’s far from a typical tailback. In fact, some wonder if his power rushing style and massive body make him more suited for a fullback role. However, Gerhart insisted at the NFL combine that he wants to be a running back, a position at which he burst onto the scene in 2009 as he led the nation with 343 carries, 1,871 rushing yards and 28 touchdowns – a Pac-10 record. Though Gerhart was coming off an 1,100-yard junior year, few saw a Heisman runner-up season coming for a player who some believed would be more focused on baseball. A key contributor to Stanford’s 2008 College World Series team, Gerhart insists he won’t try to be a two-sport star and is committed to developing his running skills to disprove the skeptics who feel he’s more likely to be a short-yardage back than an every-down, Pro Bowl-type performer. He already did some quieting of his critics with a solid 4.53 time in the 40-yard dash at the combine. A unanimous first-team All-America selection and a Pac-10 All-Academic first teamer, Gerhart showed scouts he can be a workhorse while leading the Cardinal to their winningest season since 2001. The Southern California native was rarely used in the passing game but has decent hands, rarely fumbling, and even threw for a touchdown against Notre Dame. He ended his career by racking up 135 yards against the nation’s eighth-ranked rushing defense in a Sun Bowl loss to Oklahoma. There wasn’t one game in his senior year when he averaged fewer than 4.2 yards per carry and he had three 200-yard games, including a school-record 223 in a win over a seventh-ranked Oregon team.

We traded up to pick Jackson…
We traded up to draft Tyrell Johnson…
And now we traded up to select Toby Gerhart

That’s all the evidence I need to think he’s not going to do much

if we don’t trade up to get McCoy i am gonna be pretty pissed off

I meant to say something more differenter there: “similar toughness”

Or Blount.

What kills me is there was only one other CB taken after Cook in round 2: Arenas.

We’ll have to wait and see, but right now I wish they had gone Daryl Washington up top and then someone like Spievey (or Cook?) at the bottom.

This is probably a fair assesment at this point. Boring, but some decent potential depth guys. I think they’ve left some stuff on the table and also could’ve found good facsimiles for Cook and Gerhart later in the draft, but what do I know?

That is a great video. I’m so pumped up now. My take on Gerhart is that I worry about him getting injured in the pros. Well, here’s hoping he stays healthy!

How would you like to play defense against Adrian Peterson, Toby Gerhart, and Brett Favre.

Oh, and the one main weakness our defense had, passes thrown to tight ends and tall wide receivers, is now officially over, trademark Chris Cook.

I say still work on defense in the draft and get him as a FA.

Chris Cook was not. Everyone knew they loved this kid and visited him. What was a surprise was taking him at # 34. My guess is they felt someone behind them would take him otherwise why not trade down a bit further?

the AZ/NE trade set the bar for what we needed to give up, to move up. Our trade was basically a carbon copy of theirs

Somebody left Shiancoe open. Or Rice. Or Berrian, or Kleinsasser.

GRR

Although on one level I agree with you (that few or none of us really know enought to make intelligent choices) … on the other, let people have their say. Many enjoy it doesn’t hurt anyone. Except you apparently.

U do know theyre about to get on yu for all the past football stars who were drafted late and even went undrafted ( i.e. Tom brady, john randall)

cuz AP sure don’t. Unless we do the unthinkable and actually power block in the running game, which would only mean the super bowl for us… :o

He played center field in college baseball at Stanord. He can catch.

lol nice names bro…should get it copyrighted

tried calling themselves that a couple years ago. They had some crappy shake/sprinkle dance they did after a sack.

wetz give dem widdo nick names…….how about “ebony and ivory, living in perfect harmony” !!

just kidding, i couldn’t resist.

If he can cover Jermichael Finley I’ll love this pick. Maybe opposing tight ends won’t own us now?

You could also have taken Jahvid Best at #30, John Jerry at #62 which we need, and Brandon Ghee at #93. But they should have taken Clausen.

I am not too high on either of the picks but they were OK. I think the Cook pick was a reach and I would have waited for Gerhart.

Most of all I was hoping that they would come out of this draft with the majority of their picks, whoever they would have been (because I really do not know more then them), in the first 3 rounds. I wanted them to get more picks in the first 3 rounds not less.

Now we have the majority of our picks in the crap end of the draft. In the round where the chance of a player being even able to make the team very low. Each round it gets lower.

Denver managed to wheel and deal and end up with 5 picks. Good ones too. Well at least 4.

Criticizing this organization is good and is healthy. I am not a sheep that will follow along with a bunch of drones.

They have not really done that well in the draft since Spielman arrived either. Yes they got AP, Rice, Harvin, & Loadholt. But all of us could have made those picks. They were easy. It is the later picks that are much harder.

They traded up for Tyrell who is a borderline bust, traded up for Cook & Jackson (although Spielman was not here for that – Chilly was) both who are borderline busts, traded up for Booty, drafted Guion, Jaymar, Chandler Williams, Tyler Thigpen who they let go, Marcus McCauley, John Sullivan and Brian Robison who are OK.

This past year they drafted Allen, Brinkley, & Sanford who did OK. But the depth on the team was so piss poor that late round guys could easily make our team.

One decent year of late round drafting does not make up for prior years. And their trading around ability is not that good.

There is a reason why coaches and GMs get let go.

I am not drinking the kool aid on these two guys even though they are OK.

We will regret the day they passed on Clausen. They wont because they have no clue.

MM, I hope they get Sheehan and he is good because TJack is done as a Viking IMHO and Sage is just a career backup.

You do not pass on a potential franchise QB when all you have is a grandpa and two backups.

I see the first as the same. We moved back 4 spots. We had 4 players equally rated as late first round picks. All four were still there. I assume they were Robinson, Cook, Saffold and Price.

All four were equal in talent and need at their position. One would be available at #34 and we wanted the extra pick for some reason. Cook is a fine player. Even though I thought a good CB would be available later I trust Spielman to have seen something special in Cook.

We traded away our 3rd round pick #94 to move up for Gerhart. We have the #98 pick. But it isn;t 4 spots. Its 7 spots. Because there are three compensatory picks at the end of the 3rd round. We missed the opportunity so far on Rennie Curran and Mike Johnson which were both on the Vikings radar. The next pick is really vital for our draft. I suspect it will be an O-Lineman. We passed on LB Darrell Washington by taking Cook. We passed on guards Asamoah, and Johnson and tackle Charles Brown by taking Gerhart. They must be in absolute love with Gerhart. No reason not to be.

I still have 3rd round grades on Jason Fox and Ciron Black for the O-Line that are still available. Exceptional players also will be available for our two 5th round picks. We will probably trade one or both of the 7th rounders to move up in the 5th or into the 6th.

It will be interesting to see what happens.