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

Tyler Forness

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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.

PlayerTotal
QB J.J. McCarthy175
QB Drake Maye63
EDGE Jared Verse43
EDGE Dallas Turner40
EDGE Laiatu Latu40
CB Terrion Arnold40
DT Johnny Newton33
QB Bo Nix26
QB Michael Penix Jr.26
QB Jayden Daniels21
CB Cooper DeJean17
CB Nate Wiggins 17
DT Byron Murphy II13
CB Kool-Aid McKinstry12
CB Quinyon Mitchell12
EDGE Chop Robinson5
WR Brian Thomas Jr.5
C Jackson Powers-Johnson4
OT Olu Fashanu3
TE Brock Bowers3
OT JC Latham2
OT Tyler Guyton2
QB Caleb Williams1
WR Troy Franklin1
OT Amarius Mims1
WR Adonai Mitchell1
WR Rome Odunze1
OT Taliese Fuaga1
DT Ruke Orhohoro1
Total609

Tyler Forness

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.