Vikes receive Two Compensatory Picks. 6th rounders- What can Spielman do?

by lifelongvike on Mar 30, 2011 8:05 AM CDT

If you haven't heard the Vikes received two 6th round picks ( # 200 and #235) for the loss of Chester Taylor and Artis Hicks. Some were hoping for a 5th round pick but the value and playing time of those two players just didn't warrant that high a pick. Here is the link to all comp picks.

The good news is that this year, without a new CBA no undrafted free agents can be signed. Therefore the more late round picks a team has the more opportunity exists to bring unexpected blood into training camp. The other good news is that the Vikings have Two 5th round picks this year. Their original #136 and #147 from the Giants for Sage Rosenfells. These picks along with the #105 pick in the 4th round is where the Vikes need to make hay this year.

This won't be easy. Since 2007 ( The Spielman Era) the Vikes have had the following picks:

two 4th round picks: Everson Griffen and Brian Robison were selected.

Six 5th round picks: DeGeare, Brinkley, and Guion are still with the team.

Four 6th round picks: Joe Webb, John Sullivan, and Jaymar Johnson are still on the team.

By those standards Mr.Spielman is batting about 66% which is extremely high. He has had a history of trading picks in order to move around and target players in each round ( compensatory picks are not trade-able). It is always easy to forget how important these late round selections can become. I certainly wish Mr.Spielman all the skill in the world to pull out a LB, O-Lineman, CB, safety, and a TE with these late round picks.

As an aside it should be noted that Mr. Spielman has had Five 7th round selections. Although only Jamarcus Sanford is still with the Vikings two others are with the Miami Dolhins ( Tyler Thigpen and Mickey Shuler). Not a bad average is it?

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i just posted a thread on late-round prospects. hasn’t been a whole lot of discussion on it, i see you are thinking the same.

by rj-b on Mar 30, 2011 8:57 AM CDT reply actions

We can definitely

boost our ‘reserves’ with these picks. And that cannot be under-valued when you’re trying to turn a roster over.

? on TEs tho- do you think we’ll have any luck with that position in this draft? I’d say it’s the weakest position available, and there’s not a ton of ‘em. I’d like to hope for the best, but one would wonder if any will be there in the late rounds that Spielman/ Frazier feel like taking a shot with.

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by KJSegall on Mar 30, 2011 12:59 PM CDT reply actions

Last year

Spielman found Mickey Shuler in the 7th round. Although he didn’t displace any of our TE’s he was good enough to make Miami’s third string. I suspect that if we need one Spielman can find one.
I also refer you to the post

Late Round Prospects for the Vikes

in the discussion the name of Collin Franklin( TE Iowa State) is brought up by DM_Purp

IT IS TIME TO DO WHAT IT TAKES TO DRAFT A FRANCHISE QUARTERBACK.
No more old guys. No more excuses. No more passing up our own great drafted quarterback.

by lifelongvike on Mar 30, 2011 1:47 PM CDT up reply actions

Fingers crossed.

We need some youth there. The good thing is none will need to start right away, Shianco and Kleinsasser should be able to hold it down for one more year at least.

by KJSegall on Mar 30, 2011 2:32 PM CDT up reply actions

Collin Franklin( TE Iowa State)

I’ll basically post it again here. The main point is that he’s not even projected to get picked even though he ended the season #2 in receptions in the NCAA and had he been invited to the combine(huge snub), he would have posted the #1 bench press reps. Don’t know where you rank these attributes, but he’s obviously strong, he’s 6’5.5" so he’s a big enough target and I would assume he’s got decent ball skills with the amount of receptions he had. I thought I saw his best 40-time was 4.7 and his worst was 4.9 so he’s not going to burn anyone, but that’s not really necessary. We need someone who can help with the blocking and catch 3-4 first downs a game. Again, he played on a pretty bad Iowa State team and didn’t help him attention-wise. His QB wasn’t very good either so make what you want with that.

Skol!

by DM_Purp on Mar 30, 2011 5:25 PM CDT reply actions