A Full List Of All The Minnesota Vikings' Picks In The 2011 NFL Draft

by Christopher Gates on Feb 15, 2011 9:17 PM CST in 2011 NFL Draft

The Vikings' official website has a list of all of the picks that the Beloved Purple have heading into the 2011 NFL Draft.

The team has seven picks at this point in time, and they are as follows.

Round 1 - 12th pick (12th overall)
Round 2 - 11th pick (43rd overall)
Round 4 - 9th pick
Round 5 - 8th pick
Round 5 - 19th pick (from the New York Giants in the Sage Rosenfels/Darius Reynaud deal)
Round 6 - 7th pick
Round 7 - 13th pick

We can't put an "overall pick" number on anything after the Vikings' first two selections, because the compensatory picks that the NFL gives teams that lose free agents start in the third round, and those haven't been announced yet.

I had thought that the Vikings had more picks than this, but it turns out that the draft pick involved in Jayme Mitchell being dealt to Cleveland and the pick that came with Randy Moss from New England are both 2012 selections. The Vikings got a seventh-rounder from the Patriots in 2012 as part of the Moss trade, and they received an "undisclosed" draft pick from the Browns in exchange for Mitchell.

Mike Wobschall points out on the Vikings' official site that the Vikings have selected 12th overall only one other time in team history, and it turned out pretty well when the Vikings picked some running back named Chuck Foreman out of the University of Miami. Hopefully our pick at #12 this year. . .should the Vikings stay in that spot. . .will turn out just as well.

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Trade back a little

Grab a later 1st round between 20-25 with a #3 pick. Paxkage the #2 and later 4th rounder for a later 1st rounder again or a very high 2nd rounder by tossing in yjr aquired 3rd and 5th instead of 4th
This gives us 2 1st rounders hopefully between 20-30. Or a later(but better) 1st rounder and two very early 2nd rounders.

Once again hard decision depending on who falls where. Only if if gives us 3 picks in the 1st 43 overall

AKA : Revenge4Webb

by CitrusFLViking on Feb 15, 2011 11:27 PM CST reply actions

if you want 3 picks in the first 43...

you’d want to trade our 12 to NE for their 28 and 33 — and we’d still retain our 43.

NE’s picks in that scenario are valued slightly higher than ours, but considering they’d get a 12 to go along with their 17th pick overall, it could fly.

but if we’re pulling a trade with NE, we might be better off trading down to 17 and getting our 74 back in the process (with an additional late round pick). then from 17, trade down again with Indy or Philly for an additional 3rd rounder.

stock pile those picks, baby.

by rj-b on Feb 16, 2011 9:06 AM CST up reply actions

Why would NE do that deal?

Seems like the talent level is pretty diluted this year except for the top handful of guys. Who at 12 is worth two picks at 28 and 33?

New England’s team philosophy is built on drafting lots of good players and coaching them up to play great. It would not surprise me to see NE trade down at least one of their 1st round picks to further stockpile their 2nd and 3rd round selections.

by jimbo55403 on Feb 16, 2011 10:26 AM CST up reply actions

NE has...

two 1st rd picks, two 2nd rd picks, and two 3rd rd picks — plus a handful more in the later rounds. it’s questionable whether or not they’d be able to sign all that talent. given their past history, they’ll probably trade away some of those early picks for future ones, but NE may want to leapfrog a few teams to take a RB or defensive player at #12. not outside the realm of possibility.

by rj-b on Feb 16, 2011 3:13 PM CST up reply actions

Five teams might draft a QB before the Vikings

And I counted at least three that might draft a QB up to 25, which is Seattle’s pick. Whatever we want may well be gone by then.

On the other hand, most draft boards are not showing much respect for this year’s crop of quarterbacks. Maybe Andrew Luck was the only really good one, and he’s staying in college.

by jimbo55403 on Feb 16, 2011 10:20 AM CST reply actions