NFL Releases List of Former Players Announcing Day 2 Draft Picks

Who will be the guy for the Vikings?

As they’ve done in recent years, the National Football League will be having the Day 2 selections in this year’s NFL Draft. The league released the list of players who will have that honor today, and the selection from the Minnesota Vikings will be a player who played his college ball not far from where this year’s selection meeting is taken place.

The Vikings’ picks on Day 2 will be announced by tight end Stu Voigt. Voigt played his college ball at the University of Wisconsin, and was selected by the Vikings in the tenth round of the 1970 NFL Draft.

Voigt played 11 seasons for the Vikings, hanging up his cleats after the 1980 season. In his career with the Vikings, he caught 177 passes for 1,919 yards and 17 touchdowns. When his playing career was finished, Voigt moved to the broadcast booth, serving as the team’s color commentator for two different stretches, one from 1981 to 1990 and then again from 1997 to 2000.

Voigt will replace Ed Marinaro, who is still giving his speech from the 2022 NFL Draft.

As things stand right now, Voigt is going to have a fairly long and boring night ahead of him, as the Vikings aren’t currently slated to pick on Day 2 until the end of the third round, when their Compensatory selection will come up at #97 overall. Of course, if the Vikings trade down far enough to move out of Round 1 entirely, he might get an opportunity to take the podium pretty early on Friday night.