Vikings Territory breakdown
The 2026 NFL Draft starts on Thursday, April 23, but so does the future of the Minnesota Vikings. It could be argued that this is the most consequential draft for the team in the past decade or two, but then they are all fairly consequential, particularly if you miss on your picks. The Vikings come into this draft having done their share of pick-missing during the Kwesi Adofo-Mensah era, so the pressure is on hit on all nine of the Purple Picks in this draft.
Of course, 100 percent hits in the draft is a high bar to reach (the highest, actually), so, given the past few drafts, anywhere north of .750 will be good for acting GM Rob Brzezinski. Brzezinski, along with his head coach Kevin O’Connell and face-of-the-franchise Justin Jefferson spoke to the media in the run-up to the draft, and the trio had plenty to say. From KO’s updates on Jordan Addison and Jonathan Greeenard to Brzezinski’s indicating that he enjoys the consensus building of the job and has experience in the process to Juston Jefferson talking about working out with quarterbacks J.J. McCarthy and Kyler Murray, there is plenty to digest before the Las Vegas Raiders are on the clock.
And that is just what the fellas at Vikings Territory Breakdown podcast—Joe Oberle, senior writer at vikingsterritory.com and purplePTSD.com and Mark Craig, NFL and Vikings writer for the Star Tribune and startribune.com—intend to do. We have you covered for the draft as the clock ticks down. In fact, we will peak at Mark Craig’s first-round mock draft (the last of them for this season, we hope) and see what he envisions happening on Thursday night. Tune in and check it out. Skol!
