The Minnesota Vikings didn't have a good 2022 NFL Draft. It was the first draft for general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and he was using Rick Spielman's scouting staff to help make those decisions. Once he got his own processes and people in the building, things seemed to turn around for the Vikings.
However, the remnants of his first draft are still around and the talk of moving on from some of their draft picks is getting louder and louder.
The Pioneer Press' Charley Walters mentioned in his latest column that the Vikings are "likely to move on" from first-round pick safety Lewis Cine and potentially cornerback Andrew Booth Jr.\
Former Vikings first-round safety bust Lewis Cine, because he’s guaranteed $4 million over the next two seasons, is untradeable. It’s likely he’ll get waived in training camp. If a team were to claim him, it would be responsible for the $4 million. After clearing waivers, some team might be willing to sign him as a free agent.
A second-round pick, cornerback Andrew Booth, who is guaranteed $900,000 next season, seems close to being done as a Viking.
First off, already calling him a bust might be a little bit premature. Cine did have that brutal leg injury in 2022 and that could take upward of two years to come back from. Second, taking that kind of cap hit without either trading him or an off-the-field issue being the reason doesn't seem likely.
Booth however needs to be watching himself with the depth of the cornerback room, especially with his lack of guarantees remaining.
