{"id":14826,"date":"2012-04-28T00:03:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T05:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14826"},"modified":"2014-05-09T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:10:56","slug":"vikings-select-cornerback-josh-robinson-in-2nd-day-of-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/28\/vikings-select-cornerback-josh-robinson-in-2nd-day-of-nfl-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings select cornerback Josh Robinson in 2nd day of NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/>This was a bit of a surprise, as the Vikings had signed a couple of free agent corners in the last few weeks before the draft: all the media folks were expecting the Vikings to select a wide receiver today. Instead, they added <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/vikings\/149332065.html\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Robinson of Central Florida<\/a> as their only pick of the day (#66 overall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vikings General Manager Rick Spielman expressed about a dozen reasons why he picked Central Florida cornerback Josh Robinson with the Vikings lone pick on Day 2 of the NFL draft. But two words probably sum it up best:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s fast,&#8221; Spielman said of the team&#8217;s third-round pick and the draft&#8217;s 66th overall selection.<\/p>\n<p>Make that really fast.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, Robinson ran the fastest 40-yard dash at the scouting combine in February. The listed time was 4.33, but some scouts reportedly clocked the 5-10, 199-pounder at 4.29.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, coming up on the third day of the NFL draft for 2012, the Vikings have a top-notch offensive tackle, a potential starting safety, and another cornerback. With their remaining nine picks, the team has to address several positions: wide receiver (probably the most urgent need), middle linebacker, defensive line, and another running back (for change-of-pace and 3rd down situations).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a bit of a surprise, as the Vikings had signed a couple of free agent corners in the last few weeks before the draft: all the media folks were expecting the Vikings to select a wide receiver today. Instead, they added Josh Robinson of Central Florida as their only pick of the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[126,179,960],"class_list":["post-14826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl","tag-nfldraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3R8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25653,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions\/25653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}