There’s only one more Vikings Wire draft simulation after this one.
These draft simulations have been fun, and they probably give you an idea of who’s available for the Vikings at certain points in the draft. In this draft, I picked for needs and didn’t get too crazy.
There are some choices I made as to how long the Vikings should wait to draft a positional need, but that’s a given in any draft simulation. It would have been nice to get an edge rusher earlier than the third round, for instance, but with the picks who fell before that pick, I just couldn’t do it. You can find the entire draft simulation here.
Here are the Vikings’ picks:
Round 1: TCU CB Jeff Gladney
For the second draft simulation in a row, Gladney fell to the Vikings at No. 22 and I took him.
Gladney is a solid pressing defensive back, and he can definitely compete for a starting spot at corner. If both Holton Hill and Mike Hughes end up beating him out for the two spots out wide, and they play the entire season, that says a lot about how good the Vikings are going to be at corner. And Gladney could come in and be a good nickel corner.