2019 Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database, Final Version

Well, the final version of this year’s Mock Draft Database is coming at you late, owing largely to yours truly having to work over the weekend, but now Draft Weekend is officially upon us, and this version is just about as fresh as it gets.

Of the 100 mocks that make up our final Mock Draft Database for this year, 98 of them have publishing dates on them of one week ago or less. The two that don’t come from a couple of guys named Mel Kiper and Todd McShay, and I thought they deserved inclusion. But the other 98 are no older than 17 April, so this is just about as fresh a look as we’re going to get.

Before we break down all of the selections, here is the final listing of the 100 mocks that make up the final installment of your Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database.

To finish things off, the offensive linemen just obliterated the rest of the positional groups, more so than in any other installment of our Database thus far. Of the 100 mock drafts we’ve pulled together to make up our Database, a whopping 94 of them have the Vikings taking an offensive lineman with the 18th overall pick. I’m relatively certain that is, by far, the biggest share of the “donut” that one position group has ever amassed in the time we’ve been doing this.

The dominance of the offensive linemen in this final Database isn’t that much of a surprise. What is a surprise is the name that’s at the top of the list.

Throughout this process, Oklahoma offensive lineman Cody Ford has stood atop the heap of offensive linemen as the top choice for the Vikings, and in most of those weeks he had double (or nearly double) the selections of the next-highest player on the list. In this final Database, however, Ford dropped from the top of the mountain into second place.

The most mocked player to the Vikings in our final Database is none other than North Carolina State center Garrett Bradbury, who emerges in this update with 33% of the selections. I’m sure this has quite a bit to do with the recency of these drafts, but there’s no denying that Bradbury to the Vikings is gaining some pretty serious momentum. Ford did manage to hang on to second place, picking up 26% of the vote in our final Database.

Washington State tackle Andre Dillard finished in the third spot with 10% of the picks, while Alabama tackle Jonah Williams and Boston College guard Chris Lindstrom were tied just behind him witn 9% of the picks each.

Kansas State guard Dalton Risner and Mississippi tackle Greg Little each hung on with 3% of the selections to remain in our final Database update, while Florida tackle Jawaan Taylor slipped in with 1%. The two other offensive linemen that were in our Database last week. . .Kaleb McGary of Washington and Erik McCoy of Texas A&M. . .are both gone this week.

So, as you’ve no doubt figured, that doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for non-offensive linemen, as only six selections went to other positions. The only other player to garner multiple selections in this final update was Clemson defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, who appears twice.

Four other players each got one selection this week. They were Mississippi State defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons, Michigan linebacker Devin Bush, Iowa tight end Noah Fant, and Louisiana State cornerback Greedy Williams. Simmons is actually a re-appearance this week after dropping out of the Database last week. Along with McGary and McCoy, Iowa tight end T.J. Hockenson and Washington cornerback Byron Murphy both dropped out of our Database.

So, let’s check the final graphic presentations for this year’s Database, starting with the donut graph to break down just this week’s selections. As you can see, there’s a whole lot of purple. . .and not a whole lot of anything else. Click to embiggen if you need to.

Last, but not least, our final “Jell-o salad” graph of the year, so you can see how players trended over the nine weeks we put this Database together and just how massive a comeback Bradbury had to make in order to capture the top overall spot. Again, you may click for purposes of embiggening if you feel the need.

We wound up with an overall total of 22 players that found their way into the 2019 Mock Draft Database at some point over the past nine weeks. Some of them stayed from start to finish, some popped in during the process, and some even disappeared and reappeared again. Only 13 of those 22 players made it into the final update.

With that, we’re done with the Mock Draft Database for 2019, but we’ll most certainly be back with it next season. . .you know, provided that Rick Spielman doesn’t do something insane like trade next year’s first rounder or something.

We hope you’ve enjoyed the 2019 Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database, and we’ll have to see if the Vikings go the direction that most of the mocks think they’re going to go, or if they’ll do what they did last year and buck the trend. We’re less than 24 hours from finding out!