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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

Don't forget we need corners. We lost three to free agency.

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

Don't forget we need corners. We lost three to free agency.

And Hughes has not shown any ability to stay healthy through a whole season.

At least the new drug policy may allow Hill to play more often.

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

Don't forget we need corners. We lost three to free agency.

And Hughes has not shown any ability to stay healthy through a whole season.

At least the new drug policy may allow Hill to play more often.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

Don't forget we need corners. We lost three to free agency.

And Hughes has not shown any ability to stay healthy through a whole season.

At least the new drug policy may allow Hill to play more often.

Agreed. Even if we were to believe those two will perform at an acceptable level (not at all a given), there is no historical data to say they will be in the lineup a significant number of games.

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

Don't forget we need corners. We lost three to free agency.

And Hughes has not shown any ability to stay healthy through a whole season.

At least the new drug policy may allow Hill to play more often.

Agreed. Even if we were to believe those two will perform at an acceptable level (not at all a given), there is no historical data to say they will be in the lineup a significant number of games.

And it's not even the number of games missed with Hughes as much as him ending both his seasons on IR.

Sure, its awesome if he plays 14-16 games, but if we make the Playoffs and he's unavailable, what's the point?

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ORIGINAL: bongbong

Having watched 50 years of football, I have surprisingly little knowledge of the game. Here's one thing I know: you need at least one WR with scary speed.

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

CB is by far a bigger need. We have some young talented players but you are talking about replacing four full-time starters from last year (if we trade Harris), regardless of how they played. Diggs is a vast hole to fill but its one hole, a committee approach will be ok IF the OL is fixed ... IMO the second biggest need after CB. Actually, the two are too close to call.

Although ... keep in mind ... as long as we have succubus Dillon Mitchell with negative WR talent on the roster, we will be hurting at that position. I’m not familiar with black hole theory but, according to astrophysicists, Mitchell brings the same skill set.

Still - we have one very good player at WR and Sharpe / Johnson, battling for #s 3-4. We are one high draft pick and whatever else comes our way by the season opener in January from NOT hurting at WR. That’s very faint praise. But it is what it is.

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

CB is by far a bigger need. We have some young talented players but you are talking about replacing four full-time starters from last year (if we trade Harris), regardless of how they played. Diggs is a vast hole to fill but its one hole, a committee approach will be ok IF the OL is fixed ... IMO the second biggest need after CB. Actually, the two are too close to call.

Although ... keep in mind ... as long as we have succubus Dillon Mitchell with negative WR talent on the roster, we will be hurting at that position. I’m not familiar with black hole theory but, according to astrophysicists, Mitchell brings the same skill set.

Still - we have one very good player at WR and Sharpe / Johnson, battling for #s 3-4. We are one high draft pick and whatever else comes our way by the season opener in January from NOT hurting at WR. That’s very faint praise. But it is what it is.

IMO we have 2 OK CBs with potential. We have one good WR zero depth behind him. By that math WR is the bigger need of the two. We have zero adequate guards.
Needs in order.
Guard
WR
CB
3T

We need to take advantage of this great WR class and draft two kind of early. Maybe another late. If we replaced every WR other than Thielen on the roster that would be a good thing.

It's OK if you see it differently.

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

CB is by far a bigger need. We have some young talented players but you are talking about replacing four full-time starters from last year (if we trade Harris), regardless of how they played. Diggs is a vast hole to fill but its one hole, a committee approach will be ok IF the OL is fixed ... IMO the second biggest need after CB. Actually, the two are too close to call.

Although ... keep in mind ... as long as we have succubus Dillon Mitchell with negative WR talent on the roster, we will be hurting at that position. I’m not familiar with black hole theory but, according to astrophysicists, Mitchell brings the same skill set.

Still - we have one very good player at WR and Sharpe / Johnson, battling for #s 3-4. We are one high draft pick and whatever else comes our way by the season opener in January from NOT hurting at WR. That’s very faint praise. But it is what it is.

IMO we have 2 OK CBs with potential. We have one good WR zero depth behind him. By that math WR is the bigger need of the two. We have zero adequate guards.
Needs in order.
Guard
WR
CB
3T

We need to take advantage of this great WR class and draft two kind of early. Maybe another late. If we replaced every WR other than Thielen on the roster that would be a good thing.

It's OK if you see it differently.

You can make a wild guess how the Vikings view our young players but the bottomline is:

Top 3 WRs from last year: 1 gone ... with one FA just added to the mix.

Top 3 CBs from last year: 3 gone ... with zero added to the mix.

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

CB is by far a bigger need. We have some young talented players but you are talking about replacing four full-time starters from last year (if we trade Harris), regardless of how they played. Diggs is a vast hole to fill but its one hole, a committee approach will be ok IF the OL is fixed ... IMO the second biggest need after CB. Actually, the two are too close to call.

Although ... keep in mind ... as long as we have succubus Dillon Mitchell with negative WR talent on the roster, we will be hurting at that position. I’m not familiar with black hole theory but, according to astrophysicists, Mitchell brings the same skill set.

Still - we have one very good player at WR and Sharpe / Johnson, battling for #s 3-4. We are one high draft pick and whatever else comes our way by the season opener in January from NOT hurting at WR. That’s very faint praise. But it is what it is.

IMO we have 2 OK CBs with potential. We have one good WR zero depth behind him. By that math WR is the bigger need of the two. We have zero adequate guards.
Needs in order.
Guard
WR
CB
3T

We need to take advantage of this great WR class and draft two kind of early. Maybe another late. If we replaced every WR other than Thielen on the roster that would be a good thing.

It's OK if you see it differently.

You can make a wild guess how the Vikings view our young players but the bottomline is:

Top 3 WRs from last year: 1 gone ... with one FA just added to the mix.

Top 3 CBs from last year: 3 gone ... with zero added to the mix.

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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

Is Chaisson a DE or a LB? He makes sense if we go to a 3/4.

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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

I watched a mock draft on YouTube (CBS Sports). They had us taking a DE and a WR. The national scribes follow the league, but don't follow the Vikings as closely as we do.

Here is the DE. You know, he might go in the 2nd or 3rd round.

https://www.nfl.com/prospects/julian%20-okwara?id=32194f4b-5702-9663-85a0-2051a10bc13c

The WR was Mims. He may go in the 2nd round too.