Gopher Watch: The 2022 NFL Draft!

[hungan1]

Today, the NFL Draft Round 1 is on ABC, ESPN, and NFL Network. It starts at 8:00 PM.

Will we hear Boye Mafe's name called today? I can't wait!

Rounds 2 and 3 are tomorrow at 7:00 PM.

Good luck to all the Gopher NFL prospects!

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

Bold prediction: Mafe off the board midway through round 1!

 

[hungan1]

Moderator, please merge this thread with “The Official” one.

 

[Unregistered User]

Through 10 picks, are any mocks correct?

And people obsess about mock drafts for months.

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

Vikings obsession with making mid to low picks is getting absurd ….

 

[alchemy2u]

Wow, did the Vikings ever fck up that trade!


Viking give Detroit:
pick Value
12 1200
46 440
total 1640

Detroit give Vikings
pick Value
32 590
34 560
66 146
total 1296

That is like giving them pick number 56 for free!

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

Wow, did the Vikings ever fck up that trade!


Viking give Detroit:
pick Value
12 1200
46 440
total 1640

Detroit give Vikings
pick Value
32 590
34 560
66 146
total 1296

That is like giving them pick number 56 for free!

Shocking move from a “new” front office…

This is like Rick, but worse.

 

[WriterGoph]

Wow, did the Vikings ever fck up that trade!


Viking give Detroit:
pick Value
12 1200
46 440
total 1640

Detroit give Vikings
pick Value
32 590
34 560
66 146
total 1296

That is like giving them pick number 56 for free!

Funny. The national announcers couldn't stop talking about how Detroit gave up too much.

 

[WAGopher]

I’m very disappointed in the Vikes. I was hoping the days of mediocre drafts were over. But the new GM comes back with one of the worst draft trades ever. It would have been a poor trade with number 12 for 32 and 34, but adding in the 46 for 66 makes it bad, plus giving a division rival a second top 12 pick makes it terrible. The Vikes are now the worst franchise in the division.

 

[WAGopher]

Funny. The national announcers couldn't stop talking about how Detroit gave up too much.

Shows you how much the talking heads really know. Tomorrow they’ll have read good analysis and change their tune.

 

[BTChamp]

Thank God, no Gophers to the green commies to the east. So far.

 

[PhillyGopher]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vikings trade downs forever, <a href="https://t.co/buWdSUfmUf">pic.twitter.com/buWdSUfmUf</a></p>&mdash; Brad Spielberger, Esq. (@PFF_Brad) <a href="">April 29, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[beatles]

Calm down we have no idea tonight if it was a good or bad trade. My god people.

 

[alchemy2u]

Funny. The national announcers couldn't stop talking about how Detroit gave up too much.

I think they were talking about using the 12th pick on that player. They thought he would be around much later.

 

[fmlizard]

The chances of Boye Mafe staying home for the Vikings went from very low to quite good with that trade. 32 or 34 could be good spots for him, and EDGE is a need for the purple.

 

[alchemy2u]

Calm down we have no idea tonight if it was a good or bad trade. My god people.

Of course it was a bad trade. It was like trading a $100 bill for two $20's. They may get better than expected picks at the 32, 34, but they still traded away a lot of value.

 

[highwayman]

Same “fan” Experts. Geezus.

 

[SanDiegoGopherFan]

Classic Vikings.

In all serioubess, not a good first major decision for new gm. Bad? Maybe, def not good for now.

 

[PoockItInfor6]

This draft I like this trade more because of a lot of depth making it likely to get starters through the 3rd round.

 

[swelna]

No gophs in the first round, but hopefully 2 in the next round

 

[hungan1]

Well, it's off to the 2nd and 3rd Rounds.

 

[WriterGoph]

The Athletic seems to love the Vikes pick:

"Cine is a tough, physical safety who plays with tremendous energy. He committed just one penalty all of last season, per Brugler. He tested as a top-three athlete among this year’s safety class. And Cine didn’t miss a game in the past three seasons.

I love what Vikings GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah did here. He read the market well, picked up additional draft capital and got one of my favorite defensive players in this year’s draft."

 

[Boomtime]

The B1G with 7 guys taken in the 1st round.

Good showing, imo.

 

[Stan]

 

[Unregistered User]

The Athletic seems to love the Vikes pick:

"Cine is a tough, physical safety who plays with tremendous energy. He committed just one penalty all of last season, per Brugler. He tested as a top-three athlete among this year’s safety class. And Cine didn’t miss a game in the past three seasons.

I love what Vikings GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah did here. He read the market well, picked up additional draft capital and got one of my favorite defensive players in this year’s draft."

Like Cine, hate the decision to move down to 32.

 

[highwayman]

Vikings got A or high B from every analyst. Thank god Gopherhole can straighten them out.

 

[hungan1]

This the way I look at it. There’s more than 32 good players in this deep draft.

The #12 pick swapped for #32 and #34 is like two first round picks. The Vikes got away with paying a little less for what is essentially a second first round pick.

 

[MNVCGUY]

Through 10 picks, are any mocks correct?

And people obsess about mock drafts for months.

Mock drafts and early bowl projections are two of the most worthless things to put any stock in.

 

[MNVCGUY]

No gophs in the first round, but hopefully 2 in the next round

Assume Mafe hears his name pretty early on day 2 and yeah hopefully Faalele won't be far behind. Will be shocked if either is still on the board after today.

 

[Plato]

The confusion among the "experts" on this board and online and on TV and NFL GMs about the quality of players that have played for some years in the NFL or played for years on a Power 5 team shows what folly it is to try to quantitate a 17 or 18-year-old playing high school football.