The Minnesota Vikings have fuelled more speculation that they are looking to move up in his month’s NFL Draft in order to select a quarterback.
After losing Kirk Cousins through free agency last month, the team signed former New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers quarterback Sam Darnold, but it would appear that they are very much on the lookout for their next franchise QB.
With a number of quarterbacks set to go in the first round of the draft, the Vikings have the tools to potentially move up, after a trade with the Houston Texans saw them add the number 23 pick to their original 11th selection.
Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah openly discussed the possibility of taking a swing when he spoke to the media on Thursday.
“I think just because something’s risky doesn’t mean you have to stay away from it,” he said. “It is something that is hard to grasp, but if you grasp it, you know what the rewards are. And that’s something you have to weigh and measure.
“You can’t look at these decisions in a vacuum. You look at the whole portfolio of decisions that go around it, all the things you have to do.”
He then admitted that his staff are ‘in love’ with a number of prospects.
“When you go back to the team element and value, I think there’s multiple guys that we are in love with just on an outright basis,” he added. “But there’s other guys we’re in love with given what, if we get them at a certain value, what they’d also be able to come with.
“So, as I talked about earlier, skill-set-wise, if you’re talking about the ability to overcome context — well, if the guy has less ability but we have assets to go get somebody who is not going to put him in that situation, those things add up, too.”
Live on DAZN PPV: Haney vs. Garcia on April 20. Click here for details.