The NFL Draft remains the second-biggest event in the NFL calendar behind the Super Bowl. Like it or not, it also remains one of the biggest things that fans and media enjoy going back and analyzing to see “what could have been.”
Pro Football Focus has done a good job this offseason by starting a re-draft series that we have been tracking here on Bucs Wire. In their latest draft, they looked back on, it just so happens to be one of the more impactful ones in recent memory for the Minnesota Vikings franchise: The 2014 NFL Draft.
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Anthony Barr was the Vikings’ top draft pick in their class in the 2014 NFL Draft. In the re-draft, he did not get to the Vikings but instead stayed closer to home and his college of UCLA by being drafted by the Denver Broncos.
Sikkema writes up the pick, saying, “Barr made four Pro Bowls with the Vikings and earned an 83.8 career PFF pass-rushing grade. He finished his second season, 2015, as one of the 10 most valuable linebackers in the league, according to PFF WAR. Barr and Brandon Marshall would have formed one of the better linebacker units in the NFL.”
Barr would have a Super Bowl ring to his credit this way, while the Vikings would be left scrambling for more defensive help than they would have imagined.
This article originally appeared on Vikings Wire: Former Vikings LB heads out west in PFF’s 2014 NFL re-draft