Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database v8.0

Only three or four more of these databases to go before the actual 2014 NFL Draft takes place, ladies and gentlemen! We'll have one each of the next three Saturdays, and possibly one on either draft day or the day before, if I have enough time to squeeze in another update.

We're up to 85 different mocks in this week's list, most of which have been updated fairly recently. Here's what this week's list looks like. As always, selections with a * after them indicate some sort of trade. You'll have to hit the link to that specific draft to get all the particulars on the deal.

There hasn't been a whole lot of movement in the position groups as a whole, but the vote distributions have changed a little bit in a couple of spots.

We'll start, as always, with the quarterback position, which accounts for a whopping 65 of this week's 85 first-round selections, a 76.5% share. Louisville signal-caller Teddy "Theodore" Bridgwater has opened up his lead even more, as his name appears 25 times this week (29.4). That gives him a nine-spot lead over Johnny Mondo Delicious Purple Ice Cream Football Manziel, who appears 16 times in this week's table (18.9%). Fresno State's Derek "Baby, You Can Drive My" Carr appears 14 times this week (16.5%), while Central Florida's Blake Bortles (who doesn't have a catchy nickname at this point) sees his total increase for the first time in a while, moving up to 10 selections (11.8%).

The linebackers hold steady in second place with just nine selections (10.6%). This week, that means each of the four quarterbacks appears more times individually than any other position group does in total. (Gee, reckon this team needs help at quarterback?) The pick breakdown is the same as it was last week, with Anthony Barr and Khalil Mack each accounting for four selections (4.7% each), and C.J. Mosley hanging on with one selection (1.2%).

Wide receivers and cornerbacks each wound up with four selections this week (4.7% each). On the receiver side, Mike Evans and Sammy Watkins each garnered two selections (2.4% each). For the cornerbacks, Justin Gilbert holds on to his two selections (2.4%), while Jason Verrett remains with one pick (1.2%), and Pete Prisco's fairly inexplicable decision to put Virginia Tech cornerback Kyle Fuller in the Vikings' spot gives him one pick as well (1.2%).

Ha'Sean Clinton-Dix's two selections (2.4%) ensure that the safety position stays on the board this week, while Aaron Donald continues to represent the defensive tackles with his one selection (1.2%).

We'll top this off, as we always do, with the graphics. First off, the donut graph that will break down this week's selections only. As usual, you may click to embiggen.

And we'll follow that up with the "Jell-o salad" graph that will let you see how players' stock has risen and fallen in the eyes of the experts over the past couple of months. You can click to embiggen this one as well.

Yep. . .both of those graphs have a whole lot of purple, and not a whole lot of anything else. Of course, that doesn't mean this team is taking a quarterback on 8 May. . .we should know better than that by now.

And that's this week's installment of your Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database, ladies and gentlemen!