Under GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, the 2024 Minnesota Vikings focused on player value, making seven draft picks and acquiring 17 undrafted agents. The Real Forno Show analyzes this strategy, its implications, and the prospects of the new players, highlighting trends like prioritizing Power 5 schools and top 30 visits. Join us! SKOL!
The Minnesota Vikings may be falling behind in the NFC North division as other teams show consistent improvements. The performance of General Manager, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, has been mixed, with effective salary cap management but challenges in roster building. The 2024 offseason will be a significant test for him. The Vikings’ running game, ranking 29th in the league last season, needs strategic decisions to improve. Today on "Two Old Bloggers" from Vikings 1st & SKOL. SKOL VIKINGS!
Which NFL Teams Draft the Best?
Hint: they both wear purple
With the 2021 NFL Draft approaching at the end of the month, it seems apropos to take a look back at how well every team in the NFL has drafted in recent years. In particular, I looked back again at the period since Rick Spielman took over as Vikings’ General Manager in 2012, and how every team in the NFL has done over those last nine drafts, including the few supplemental drafts and college free agent signings.
In order to value the contribution each draft pick made to the team that drafted them, I used Pro Football Reference’s Draft Approximate Value (DrV) metric, which is the Approximate Value of a player to the team that drafted him, or in the case of college free agents, the AV for the team that originally signed him after the draft. Once that player leaves the team that originally drafted/signed them, whatever future value they accrue does not apply. So, a player drafted by one team and accrues an AV of 1