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The Minnesota Vikings have selected at 11 three times

The Vikings have selected at 11th overall three times with Daunte Culpepper being the most notable

The NFL draft is known as a crap shoot. You can find a hall of fame player just about anywhere but being able to identify them is the biggest challenge. Some teams can find great talent anywhere while others struggle to find good players in round one where it’s the easiest to identify those talents.

The Minnesota Vikings are no strangers to inconsistencies in the NFL draft and you can look at their history at pick 11 for just that. In their history, they have selected three times at the 11th overall pick, all of which have happened since 1995.

Who have the Vikings selected at 11th overall? Lets take a look.

90 days until Vikings season opener: Every player to wear No. 90

We take a look at every player to wear No. 90 for the Minnesota Vikings as we reach 90 days until the season opener.

It’s the final countdown…

Well, sort of.

The Minnesota Vikings will kick off their 2023 regular season in 90 days at home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sept. 10.

From now until then, we will take a trip down memory lane and count each day by revisiting the players that have worn that specific jersey number.

Esezi Otomewo currently wears No. 90 for the Vikings and has worn the number since last season. However, Derrick Alexander likely saw the most success in the number, totaling 17.5 sacks in four seasons.

With 90 days until kickoff, here’s a look at every player to wear No. 90 with the Vikings (via Pro Football Reference):

Avila University hires former Chiefs WR Derrick Alexander as head football coach

Former #Chiefs WR Derrick Alexander has been hired as head coach of Avila University’s football program.

A former member of the Kansas City Chiefs is getting his shot at a head-coaching opportunity at the college level.

On Thursday, Avila University announced that they had hired former Chiefs WR Derrick Alexander to serve as their next head football coach. A first-round draft pick out of Michigan by the Cleveland Browns in 1994, Alexander played for four seasons in Kansas City from 1998 through 2001. Alexander had the best season of his NFL career in 2000, catching 78 passes for over 1,300 yards and ten touchdowns with Elvis Grbac under center and Gunther Cunningham calling the shots.

After his NFL career, Alexander stayed in the Kansas City area. He was selected for the NFL’s Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship for three consecutive years and spent time with the Chiefs at training camp in 2017.  After spending 2015 coaching wide receivers at Wilmington College, Alexander returned to Kansas City and joined the coaching staff at Avila University. He spent three seasons there, serving as wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator, among other roles. He’s since spent time at Morgan State and Wayne State, but he now returns to Avila as head coach.

“I am ecstatic about the opportunity to be a head coach,” Alexander said, via press release. “I have so many things that I want to do but I know it’s going to take time. I am ready to get to work!”

Avila has won two KCAC championships in the past three seasons. In 2022, Avila won a record-setting 10 games and qualified for the NAIA Football Championship Series for the first time in team history.

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JuJu Smith-Schuster, Marquez Valdes-Scantling are Chiefs’ first 100-yard WR duo in over 20 years

You have to go all the way back to Nov. 5, 2000, to find the last time the #Chiefs had two WRs with over 100 receiving yards in a single game.

Kansas City Chiefs WRs JuJu Smith-Schuster and Marquez Valdes-Scantling accomplished something in Week 7 that hadn’t been done by the team’s receivers in over 20 years.

In the 44-23 win over the San Francisco 49ers, Smith-Schuster caught seven passes for 124 yards and Valdes-Scantling caught three passes for 111 yards. In doing so, they became the first two players at the wide receiver position for the Chiefs since the year 2000 to each record 100+ receiving yards in a single game.

You have to go back to Week 10 of the 2000 NFL season to find the team’s last receiver duo who each had 100 or more receiving yards. Gunther Cunningham’s Chiefs squad faced Jon Gruden’s Oakland Raiders in an AFC West showdown. Elvis Grbac was the quarterback for the Chiefs, facing off against Charles Woodson. He threw for 504 yards in that game, which is still the franchise record for a single-game passing performance.

Two of Grbac’s receivers, Sylvester Morris and Derrick Alexander, both went over 100 receiving yards. That included a 48-yard touchdown pass from Grbac to Alexander. Tony Gonzalez also had 134 receiving yards in the 49-31 loss for Kansas City.

Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill had plenty of games where each went over 100 yards receiving, but Kelce plays the tight end position. Hill and Sammy Watkins never went over 100 yards in the same game either. This is the first time that Patrick Mahomes has seen two players at the wide receiver position turn in such a performance.

With the newfound chemistry and communication that Smith-Schuster spoke about after the game, it’s possible that there will be more of these performances for the Chiefs in the not-so-distant future.

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