Vikings feel confident drafting from a position of success

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"The good thing is we have a pretty good football team, so we can kind of be selective on taking the best player available and not try to fill too many holes," Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said.
The list of positives as the Vikings head into this week’s NFL draft is long. They are coming off of an NFC Championship Game appearance. They won the NFC North for the second time in three seasons. They signed the most sought-after free agent on the market in quarterback Kirk Cousins. And they bring back 18 of their 22 starters.
It’s for those reasons that coach Mike Zimmer says the team feels confident heading into the draft.
“We’re going through the same process, trying to evaluate,” Zimmer said. “The good thing is we have a pretty good football team, so we can kind of be selective on taking the best player available and not try to fill too many holes.”
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Zimmer said he believes the team can grab a quality player even if it picks late in the first round. He pointed out the Vikings didn’t have a first-round selection last year and still ended up drafting two starters in Pat Elflein and Cook.
“We’re picking way lower now, which is a good thing, but makes it a little bit more difficult,” he said. “Some of the better players will be gone. But our scouts do a lot of homework, and we figure out some guys we like and hopefully they’re still there.”
Zimmer added there’s always a chance that Spielman makes a move, but that will depend on what happens over the course of the draft.
“Our people — the scouts and Rick and those guys — did a great job, the coaches did a great job in finding all those guys that were able to help us this past year,” Zimmer said. “Then the college free agents — we did a great job in that area, too.”
Yes, the Vikings are in a great position to really take advantage of not targeting any one position. That and Spielman’s draft day moves could give them a lot of options.
“I think we’re still pretty open-minded about everything,” Zimmer said.

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And on a separate note, when it comes to the Vikings’ biggest offseason pickup, Zimmer had this to say about what he has seen from Cousins: “Right now, we’re just trying to get him acclimated to the playbook, acclimated to the team.
“We’ve had a couple team meetings right now where I’m talking to the team about how we want to play the game, the different things we want to do, getting into spring workouts with the players. So you know he has been in the offensive meetings and it has been good.”

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I can see us moving up in the first round if a guy like Wynn gets past the Bengals at 21.  The Bengals need OL help but maybe they take Hernandez.  Next up is the Bills at 22, who also need OG help but they have so many other needs maybe they will trade out to us at 30 and our 3rd round pick??  The value chart I have equates the move but we might need to throw in a little more.

After the Bills pick at 22 is a host of teams that could draft Wynn before us at 30.  

Wynn is the perfect fit for our ZBS OL that can start immediately (according to everyone) at Guard and also be a swing Tackle where he played in college.  We value versatility and Wynn looks like a perfect match for our team and needs.