Vikings Predicted to Draft Dual-Threat, 51-TD QB to Succeed Kirk Cousins
Vikings Anticipated to Draft Double Danger, 51-TD QB to Succeed Kirk Cousins
The Minnesota Vikings will pick nearby the best 10 in the 2024 NFL draft in the event that the group loses to the Detroit Lions in Week 18, which will put a Heisman finalist QB decisively in their sights.
Trevor Sikkema of Star Football Center delivered his Counterfeit Draft 4.0 on Friday, January 5, in which he projected the Vikings will draft No. 12 generally. He predicted that the team would select its next quarterback in that position, adding Oregon Ducks quarterback Bo Nix as the fifth signal-caller.
“Five quarterbacks in the main 12 would make for a wild premiere night of the 2024 NFL Draft, yet until these groups really fill their necessities at the position, dunking into this exceptionally skilled 2024 sign guest class again feels conceivable,” Sikkema composed. ” Assuming you’ve seen what Vikings lead trainer Kevin O’Connell has finished with his quarterbacks this year, you must be fairly amped up for how he could manage Nix’s insight, high football level of intelligence and double danger capacity.”
Bo Nix Had Beast Season for Oregon in 2023, Completed third in Heisman Casting a ballot
While Sikkema accepts Nix will fall off the board at No. 12, ESPN rates the QB the 47th-best in general possibility in the 2024 class and the 6th best quarterback.
Nix wound up third in Heisman casting a ballot in 2023, completing behind QB Michael Penix Jr. of Washington, who is set to play in the Public Title Game on Monday, and QB Jayden Daniels of LSU, who Sikkema predicts will go No. 3 in general to the New Britain Nationalists.
The 6-foot, 3-inch and 214-pound Nix has five times of university experience added to his repertoire — three with Reddish and the last two with Oregon. Nix set up 4,508 yards and 45 TDs against 3 INTs through the air in 2023 to alongside 234 hurrying yards and 6 scores on the ground. According to Football Reference, Nix has thrown for 15,352 yards, 113 touchdowns, and 26 interceptions in his career.
Bo Nix, who turns 24 in February, could be selected by the Vikings as a backup to Kirk Cousins for one or two seasons. This could be a drawback for some prospects because their pro careers are likely to be shorter than those of younger players. On the other hand, the argument in favor of selecting a player of that age is that he might be mature enough to advance into the starting lineup more quickly than younger players.
The Vikings were not hindered by the time of freshman QB Jaren Lobby in 2023, when the group drafted him at 25 years old last April. Corridor doesn’t give off an impression of being the future in Minnesota in the wake of procuring several beginnings this season, passing on one right on time because of injury and the withdrawing the other rashly after O’Connell pulled him for Scratch Mullens.
Mullens is under agreement with the Vikings through the 2024 mission, while Corridor will be with the group through 2026. Josh Dobbs, for whom Minnesota exchanged after Kirk Cousins experienced a season-finishing Achilles tear in Week 8, will be a free specialist and is reasonable play somewhere else next season.
Cousins will likewise be a free specialist except if he re-ups with Minnesota in the following two months. Assuming Sikkema is right and the Vikings draft Nix — or another QB — in the main round, the group could choose to continue on from Cousins. Notwithstanding, another conceivable result is that the establishment will re-sign the four-time Master Bowler on a transient arrangement and permit Nix to create for a season or two behind him.
Cousins has communicated interest in getting back to the group next season, while All-Star wide beneficiary Justin Jefferson has additionally voiced help for Cousins returning 2024.
