VIKINGS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B+

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Minnesota Vikings

The Vikings let Klare fall into their laps, and walked away with a B+.

by jimbo92107 · 2026 NFL Draft · 11 picks · 4 steals · 2 reaches
Value B-
Need B
Trades A+
Future B-

Thirty-one other rooms let Max Klare slide, and the Vikings were the ones holding the card at the 111th overall pick. Highway robbery. The bottom line is a respectable B+.

Every deal seemed to tilt their way, which is not luck. Jackson Jr. has a lot of ground to make up just to look fairly priced.

The quarterback hole is the one line item this class does not answer.

A competent weekend that does not make headlines and does not need to.

Pick-by-Pick

R2.17 · Pick 49 · Lee Hunter · DT · rank 49
Lee Hunter in the Round 2 slot is exactly on the number, no argument either way. It fills a real need, too.
R3.14 · Pick 78 · Darrell Jackson Jr. · DT · rank 106
Darrell Jackson Jr. in the 78th pick is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R3.18 · Pick 82 · Jake Golday · OLB · rank 62
They will replay Jake Golday at No. 82 for years; that is how good the value is. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R3.33 · Pick 97 · Emmett Johnson · RB · rank 108
A premium they did not need to pay, Emmett Johnson a notch or two before his time. The roster fit checks out.
R4.8 · Pick 108 · Ted Hurst · WR · rank 89
They robbed the room for Ted Hurst here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A need, and now a little less of one.
R4.11 · Pick 111 · Max Klare · TE · rank 76
A top-tier tight end at a bargain, Max Klare in pick 111, plain and simple. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
R5.23 · Pick 163 · Charles Demmings · CB · rank 150
Charles Demmings in the 163rd overall pick is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
R6.15 · Pick 196 · VJ Payne · S · rank 198
VJ Payne at Round 6, Pick 15 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R7.18 · Pick 234 · Xavier Nwankpa · S · rank 238
A market-rate safety, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Xavier Nwankpa. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R7.19 · Pick 235 · Eli Heidenreich · WR · rank 241
Eli Heidenreich in Round 7, Pick 19 is fair value, right on his grade. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R7.28 · Pick 244 · Fa'alili Fa'amoe · OT · rank 247
Fa'alili Fa'amoe at pick 244 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
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