The Vikings landed quarterback J.J. McCarthy and edge rusher Dallas Turner in the NFL Draft Thursday night.
It wasn’t the path they thought it might be at the start of the night, but the Minnesota Vikings added a potential future franchise quarterback and a star edge rusher in the first round of the NFL Draft Thursday night.The Vikings made a trade with the New York Jets to acquire the No. 10 overall pick. With it, they took Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy. They then dealt the No. 23 overall pick to the Jacksonville Jaguars to move up to No. 17.
10 pick, presumably to prevent other teams from getting ahead of them to take McCarthy. When the pick was announced at the Vikings draft party at U.S. Bank Stadium, the crowd erupted."We went into this entire draft process with the mindset on identifying a quarterback of the future that we could bring in here. I think we were able to do that in J.J. McCarthy," Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell said. "Very, very excited to have spent a lot of time with him throughout the process.
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