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Cordarrelle Patterson: Grade The Pick!

By Adam Warwas

Adam Warwas

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    • I went with "D". I like the pick but I didn't like how much we gave up for it. I would have rather stayed in the second and taken woods/Patterson/Patton/Allen or whoever fell. But I am happy we got Patterson.

  • I gave it a C. Very risky pick, gave up too much. Way too much, this kid better be in the running for ROY.

  • I just have a bad feel for the guy in general but he does have the potential to be great. One of the big reasons I wasn't in favor of taking him was because I don't think he's going to give you much as a true WR in his first couple years. On the other hand, most rookie receivers don't give you much in the first couple years, so that's not exactly a great point to make to not take a guy. What he will do is give us a big-time return man, and it will be nice to have a guy who can handle both kickoffs and punts. We also already have a play book full of short passes meant to get playmakers the ball quickly and in space. I just wonder how much of that they can do with him because the long term goal is to make him an outside receiver and most of those short routes and reverses came from our slot guy. I'm interested to hear what our WR coach has to say about him. I'm really hoping to get some ringing endorsements about the guys character. It's a darn good thing we have a veteran like Jennings to take this guy under his wing.

  • I gave it a C too. Patterson better be an IMEDIATE help, or this will haunt us.
    I really dig the Floyd/ Rhodes pick.

  • It is kinda bugging me that we gave up a 7th round pick instead of getting one back from the Pats. We already sent them 647 points to get 640 according to the value chart. We should have kept our 7th and they should have sent us one. Yeah, I know, its a 7th round pick but still. Atleast it was the latest of our 7th's we gave up.

  • Vikings actually got 4 first round picks today. Lawrence Jackson signed at some point today.

  • I don't know why everyone thinks they gave up too much for Patterson, they weren't exactly moving up a few spots.. It was essentially a 3rd and 4th rounder to move up 20+ spots.

    All in all I thought it was a fantastic day for the Vikes. Really looking forward to seeing Floyd in action and having a trio of young corners to slow down the WRs in our division.

    • After sleeping on it, I don't really think we gave up too much. This morning I'm looking at it like this. Instead of having a pick in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rounds, we got three guys in the first. We still have our own picks in the 4th, 5th and 6th plus two early picks in the 7th, so we will still end up with a full draft class. I’m really happy they didn’t have to trade any picks from next year to get back into the 1st to take him.

      • I'm with you Dan. It makes tonight sort of suck, but all things considered, it could easily end up being a brilliant move. After a night to mull it over, I'm on board with Rick. Great draft so far.

        • Agreeing with Spielman and not mocking me? Who are you, and what have you done with Tomb? Next thing we'll hear you're having the local cub scout pack over for milk and cookies.