J.J. McCarthy and Drake Maye are most popular Vikings NFL Draft selections in mock draft roundup

Tyler Forness

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J.J. McCarthy and Drake Maye are most popular Vikings NFL Draft selections in mock draft roundup image

The NFL Draft is only 10 days away and things are starting to get interesting for the Minnesota Vikings.

What we do every week is track the mainstream outlets' mock drafts and aggregate how many times a player gets selected. Last season, we tallied up 545 mock drafts and that included a whopping 54 different players. With the Vikings set to pick at 11th and 23rd overall, there are a lot of discussions surrounding the quarterbacks in this draft along with trading up to get one.

With less than two weeks left in the draft process, things are starting to get more clear while also being really difficult to predict. General manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah kept things ambiguous in his pre-draft press conference.

"A lot of times evaluators can be a little one-track mind, this is the guy and nobody else. That's not how it's been. We've really come to appreciate how guys get to their answer a different way and I think that's going to serve us well."

Vikings NFL mock draft roundup

What will the Vikings end up doing? Experts have a varied approach in their mock drafts this week with a lot of them not having the Vikings trade up.

North Carolina QB Drake Maye

Illinois DT Johnny Newton

Michigan QB J.J. McCarthy

Washington QB Michael Penix Jr.

UCLA EDGE Laiatu Latu

Alabama OT J.C. Latham

LSU WR Brian Thomas Jr.

Oregon QB Bo Nix

Alabama CB Terrion Arnold

Oklahoma OT Tyler Guyton

Clemson CB Nate Wiggins

Texas DT Byron Murphy Jr.

LSU QB Jayden Daniels

Iowa CB Cooper DeJean

Penn State OT Olu Fashanu

Florida State EDGE Jared Verse

Georgia TE Brock Bowers

Overview

This week, we tallied 67 different mock drafts with 17 unique players being sent to the Vikings. Overall, they have been mocked 29 unique players over 609 mock drafts.

Player Total
QB J.J. McCarthy 175
QB Drake Maye 63
EDGE Jared Verse 43
EDGE Dallas Turner 40
EDGE Laiatu Latu 40
CB Terrion Arnold 40
DT Johnny Newton 33
QB Bo Nix 26
QB Michael Penix Jr. 26
QB Jayden Daniels 21
CB Cooper DeJean 17
CB Nate Wiggins  17
DT Byron Murphy II 13
CB Kool-Aid McKinstry 12
CB Quinyon Mitchell 12
EDGE Chop Robinson 5
WR Brian Thomas Jr. 5
C Jackson Powers-Johnson 4
OT Olu Fashanu 3
TE Brock Bowers 3
OT JC Latham 2
OT Tyler Guyton 2
QB Caleb Williams 1
WR Troy Franklin 1
OT Amarius Mims 1
WR Adonai Mitchell 1
WR Rome Odunze 1
OT Taliese Fuaga 1
DT Ruke Orhohoro 1
Total 609

Tyler Forness

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Tyler Forness was previously the managing editor of USA Today's Vikings Wire. His work has been featured on Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Voices of Wrestling, SB Nation, and NBC Sports Edge among others. He is an avid wrestling fan, craft beer connoisseur, and loves the run-n-shoot offense. You can find him on Twitter/X @TheRealForno.