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I have been a Vikings fan, since I was 5 years old. I am now 34. Like many other fans, I would love to see us draft an offensive lineman in the first round! I believe that is where we need to get better. I understand that, with all of the departures, cornerback is an area of need! Stefon Diggs leaves a gaping hole in our arsenal of offense! I still believe that we need to take the best player available!
At number 22, if [Oklahoma linebacker] Kenneth Murray is still available, is there any player that you can honestly say that would likely drop to us that could make the kind of immediate impact that a player of his skills could for our team? I truly believe that, if you pair his talents with Jeff Gladney at number 25 and the rest of our defense, we could become one of the best defenses in the league again!
— David Lidtke in Rose Creek, Minnesota
David starts us off with an email that perfectly captures the essence of draft week! Ask 10 Vikings fans, and you'll likely get 10 different names for who they think Minnesota should take in the first round. Wide receiver, cornerback, offensive tackle and edge rusher are the positions I have seen most-often linked to the Vikings in recent mock drafts, and we're only a few days away from finding out what direction the team will go.
Murray is certainly a great player and was a star at Oklahoma. You can read more about Murray and other LBs in the 2020 draft class here. Perhaps Minnesota takes your advice and doubles up on defense in the first round, but the Vikings could easily do the same on offense with, say, a wide receiver and an offensive lineman.
The fun begins this week, and we'll have wall-to-wall coverage of everything on Vikings.com.