Vikings Fans Are Pretty Excited About This Year’s Draft Class

And with good reason

We have the results from this week’s SB Nation Reacts poll about our Minnesota Vikings, centered around the five players that the purple selected in last week’s NFL Draft. Let’s get to them without any further ado, shall we?

Our first question was about whether or not the first player the Vikings selected, Ohio State offensive lineman Donovan Jackson, will be out there with the starting offensive line when the team lines up in Week 1. Turns out that. . .well, yeah, of course we think he will.

A full 97% of folks who responded to our poll feel that Jackson will be one of the five starters when the regular season gets underway. Since that’s one-sided enough to not really require any further commentary, I’ll simply direct you to Warren’s outstanding breakdown of Jackson for the reasons why.

The Vikings drafted four other players last week as well, and we’re not about to leave them out of this whole thing. We asked you which of the non-first-round picks you were the most excited to see this season, and I was a bit surprised by the results of this one.

The name that topped our poll for this one was the team’s fifth-round pick, Georgia defensive lineman Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins. He garnered 41% of the vote in our poll, followed by the team’s third-round selection, Maryland wide receiver Tai Felton. Penn State linebacker Kobe King came in third with 19%, and the team’s last pick, Pitt tight end Gavin Bartholomew, was at the bottom with 7% of the vote.

I picked Ingram-Dawkins as well, even though I thought more people would go with Felton just because of the position he plays. However, as I said in the piece when he was selected, there are worse ideas that NFL teams can have than a) picking guys who are a part of the front seven at Georgia and b) giving Brian Flores a ridiculously athletic young talent to mold and shape into a productive NFL player. I think Ingram-Dawkins is going to be making an impact for this team sooner rather than later.

Those are the results of our poll for this week, folks! Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s SB Nation Reacts, both by voting in the poll itself and getting involved in the comments section.