{"id":38172,"date":"2017-04-17T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38172"},"modified":"2017-04-16T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T13:42:03","slug":"comparing-bad-draft-years-perhaps-2005-wasnt-the-worst-vikings-draft-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/comparing-bad-draft-years-perhaps-2005-wasnt-the-worst-vikings-draft-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing bad draft years … perhaps 2005 wasn’t<\/em> the worst Vikings draft class"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As I don’t follow college football, much of the lead-up to the NFL draft is just noise to me … mock drafts are fun, but debating the relative value of players from this or that university and how that will or will not translate to the pro league … I usually fall behind reading posts from my usual Vikings bloggers until the draft is imminent. In this case, Christopher Gates<\/a> posted an interesting retrospective on bad Viking draft classes more than a week ago, and I just got around to reading it now:<\/p>\n

For as long as I\u2019ve been writing for this little corner of the internet, I\u2019ve maintained that the Minnesota Vikings\u2019 worst draft class of all time came in the 2005 NFL Draft. From the purple completely blowing it on not one, but two first round picks (wide receiver Troy Williamson and defensive end Erasmus James) and the rest of the class not really amounting to much, that class was pretty dismal.<\/p>\n

(And before we get too far into the proceedings, I don\u2019t want to hear about how the Vikings \u201cpassed\u201d on Aaron Rodgers in 2005. They had a 27-year old starting quarterback (Daunte Culpepper) that was coming off of a season that saw him throw for over 4,700 yards and 39 touchdowns, and saw him come in second in the NFL MVP voting to a guy that set the single-season record for touchdown passes. The Vikings would have been certifiably bonkers to take a quarterback in the first round that year, and anyone that says otherwise is probably pretty ignorant of history and how the draft actually works.)<\/p>\n

But, thanks to another article from behind the great E$PN paywall, I may have to adjust my line of thinking on the worst Vikings\u2019 draft class of all time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve also long thought that the 2005 draft class was one of the worst-ever for an NFL team, but ESPN makes a good case that the Vikings’ 1989 draft class was even worse<\/em>:<\/p>\n

How bad was the Vikings\u2019 draft class? Here\u2019s ESPN\u2019s description of it:<\/p>\n