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Minnesota Vikings
Starks should have been long gone. The Vikings pounced, and earned a A-.
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2025 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 6 steals
· 0 reaches
This is the pick they will still be bragging about in July: Malaki Starks, the No. 12 name on the board, stolen at the 90th overall pick.
They robbed the room blind at the table, and it lifts the grade on its own. That quarterback hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.
Bottom line, they did the job about as well as it can be done.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick No. 26 they get a blindside protector, outstanding value to boot. The biggest hole, addressed.
They robbed the room for Malaki Starks here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Walter Nolen at Round 3, Pick 33 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Quinshon Judkins at No. 126 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It fills a real need, too.
They barely believed it either: Andrew Mukuba still on the board at pick 140. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Somehow Barrett Carter was still sitting there in the 161st pick, and they pounced on premier linebacker value. A minor need, but a need all the same.