https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/379/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-nfl-draft-minnesota-vikings-select-virginia-tech-te-bucky-hodges/The Minnesota Vikings may have gotten the steal of the sixth round by selecting Bucky Hodges, a tight end from Virginia Tech. Ranked 78th on the Consensus Big Board, the Vikings grabbed a player originally projected to go in the third round. Waiting on a talented tight end class to deplete itself...2129Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-nfl-draft-minnesota-vikings-select-miami-og-danny-isidora/The Minnesota Vikings selected Miami (Fla.) guard Danny Isidora with the 180th pick in the NFL Draft. The Vikings have been sorely lacking in offensive line depth, and while there's little chance Isidora will earn a starting spot in 2017, he could provide valuable insurance for the team.   Isidor...2128Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-nfl-draft-minnesota-vikings-select-south-florida-wrkr-rodney-adams/With the 170th pick in the NFL draft, the Minnesota Vikings have selected Rodney Adams, wide receiver from South Florida.   Adams will likely be competing for a kick returner spot with the Vikings, and he averaged 24.3 yards per kick return in his final year (with a 29.1-yard average the prior ye...2127Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-nfl-draft-minnesota-vikings-select-michigan-linebacker-ben-gedeon/The Minnesota Vikings used their 120th pick to select Michigan inside linebacker Ben Gedeon. Though probably best characterized as a reach given his ranking on the Consensus Big Board (he ranked 199th), the Vikings likely made this pick with the understanding that linebacker is one of the shallowe...2125Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-nfl-draft-minnesota-vikings-select-iowa-dt-jaleel-johnson/With the 109th pick of the NFL draft, the Minnesota Vikings selected Jaleel Johnson, a defensive tackle from Iowa. Johnson can play both the nose tackle and three-technique positions because of his ability to stay stout in the run game against one or two offensive linemen.   For a very detailed b...2124Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-consensus-big-board-top-day-3-players-demonstrates-depth-of-draft/The second and third round was a bit more predictable than the first round, but it still left us with a number of shocking reaches and great steals.   The biggest reaches were probably C.J. Beathard (Consensus 220) from Iowa going to San Francisco at pick 104, WR Kenny Golladay (Consensus 200) of...2123Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-nfl-draft-minnesota-vikings-trade-up-with-new-york-jets-select-c-pat-elflein-from-ohio-state/Sam Ekstrom contributed to this report.   The Minnesota Vikings have selected center Pat Elflein from Ohio State after trading up with the New York Jets from pick 79 to pick 70, giving up a fifth-round pick (120) in the process. They met with him at the NFL Combine and brought him to Minnesota fo...2122Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:07:27 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-nfl-draft-minnesota-vikings-trade-up-select-dalvin-cook/Sam Ekstrom contributed to this report.   The Minnesota Vikings have traded up to the 41st pick from the Cincinnati Bengals, giving up one of their two fourth-round picks, the 128th overall to move up from 48. They did that in order to select Dalvin Cook, running back from Florida State.   Once...2121Fri, 28 Apr 2017 19:20:07 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-consensus-big-board-who-are-the-top-remaining-players-at-the-top-of-round-two/The conclusion of the first round gave us what we expected: the unexpected. A top Alabama defensive lineman fell from a presumed top five pick to pick 17, while his teammate fell to 31 despite being consistently ranked as a top ten pick.   The quarterback-needy Cleveland Browns moved around quite...2115Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:05:57 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-nfl-draft-top-offensive-linemen-remain-after-first-round/In a historically weak offensive line class, it seemed likely that the Minnesota Vikings would be on the outside looking in as the rare highlight linemen would be snapped up before the second round began.   Instead, two of the top four offensive linemen (per the Consensus Big Board) remain as fro...2114Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:50:39 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/remington-the-minnesota-wild-are-not-the-dynasty-youre-looking-for/Let's not kid ourselves here, Wild fans.   With all of the talk during this brief but already too long offseason, many fans have cited their expectations of this team, their desire to have a long playoff run, their need for more postseason success.   Well, here's the deal. It's probably not happ...2113Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/twins-will-reportedly-recall-boshers-go-with-nine-man-bullpen-in-kansas-city/With Hector Santiago slated to go on the bereavement list after the passing of his grandmother, the Twins have reportedly made the move to get Buddy Boshers back up with the big club in the short term, according to Phil Miller of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.     According to MLB rules, San...2111Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-consensus-big-board-printable-consensus-board/The NFL Draft begins this evening. So why not print out a card and keep score? We've compiled a Consensus Big Board so you can keep track of the picks at home. GET THE GOOGLE DOC HERE We've done a lot with the consensus board. We've figured out who did the best job of predicting player perform...2108Thu, 27 Apr 2017 07:59:49 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-consensus-board-algorithmically-generated-seven-round-mock/What if we could model the draft?   It's not a new idea; the people at DraftTek do that essentially everyday, while the folks at Fanspeak, with their On The Clock simulator need to do much the same for you to be able to use their mock draft generator. I decided to give it a stab with the Consensu...2107Thu, 27 Apr 2017 07:21:44 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/key-offseason-dates-for-minnesota-wild-fans/Unfortunately, the offseason is here for Minnesota Wild fans. It began all too soon, as the Wild suffered a first-round exit at the hands of the St. Louis Blues in five games, en-ing last Saturday. Now that the offseason is officially upon the State of Hockey (Chicago is on line one about that nic...2106Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/schefter-vikings-unlikely-to-pick-up-bridgewaters-option/The Minnesota Vikings are unlikely to pick up Teddy Bridgewater's fifth-year option, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.   The anticipated option is over $11 million, and the biggest concern is the injury guarantee, according to Schefter's Vikings sources.   UPDATE: Joel Corry at CBS reports that...2105Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-consensus-big-board-what-position-is-deepest-in-the-draft/One of the benefits of accruing the accumulated knowledge of dozens of draft experts is gaining an understanding of which positions are in highest demand, who can command an artificially high draft pick because of depth and which teams will be put in a bind.   We often hear phrases like "this is...2104Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:08:57 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/minnesota-twins-periscope-chat-with-brandon-warne/In lieu of a daily podcast, Brandon Warne broke down the 8-1 win over the Texas Rangers on Periscope, and took Twitter questions as well.       Listen to Brandon every week on Midwest Swing http://coldomaha.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/itunes.jpghttp://coldomaha.com/wp-content/uploads/20...2103Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/social-media-investigations-playing-bigger-role-in-vikings-draft-preparation/With the NFL Draft two days away, general manager Rick Spielman is crossing his t’s and dotting his i’s.   Or, more specifically, “red-dotting” them. That's Spielman’s term for crossing players off the team’s draft board. “Once we make that decision,” Spielman said of red-dotting, “then he's not...2099Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-consensus-board-2017-consensus-board-awards/There are a lot of things to uncover with the consensus big board project. When, by the time the draft starts, one gathers about 50 big boards, there's a lot of information that can be sussed out other than merely who ends up ranking where.   Very often, we ask "whose big board is best" without d...2096Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-mike-yeo-storyline-distracts-from-the-minnesota-wilds-other-issues/They weren’t the better team, but they won four games.   -- Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau after Minnesota was eliminated from the playoffs   It’s easy to dismiss Minnesota Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau’s sentiment that he was coaching the better team in the playoffs. It’s also easy to think th...2095Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2017-consensus-big-boards-who-are-the-most-polarizing-players-in-the-draft/One of the most interesting types of analysis that comes out of gathering multiple big boards is to see which players people disagree on. We already know that there are different approaches that analysts take to ranking players, and the biggest ones are represented by the differences between the e...2094Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/trying-to-process-this-crushing-minnesota-wild-loss/So here we are Wild fans. Another crushing one and done in the playoffs.   I know how you all feel. I’m right there with you. Thinking about how much the Wild dominated the play in five games yet ended up only winning one makes me 'Dean Portman getting tossed in the first Iceland game of Mighty D...2090Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:05:04 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-2017-consensus-big-board-forecaster-and-evaluator-boards-and-which-players-might-drop/Before, I've explained the concept of forecaster boards and evaluator boards when putting together the Consensus Big Board. The difference between the two kinds of public big boards allows us to better understand what various draft analysts are trying to do and what they accomplish.   There’s goo...2087Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:09:54 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-2017-consensus-big-board-complete-300-player-rankings/The Consensus Big Board is here! We’ve gathered over 40 big boards and combined them all to create a snapshot of what draft watchers around the world think of the players in this year’s draft class.   We did an excellent job identifying talent in 2014 and in 2016 identified promising undrafted fr...2086Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:20:12 +0000