{"id":870996,"date":"2026-04-21T04:33:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870996\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T04:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:33:56","slug":"can-past-drafts-help-predict-what-minnesota-will-do-in-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870996\/","title":{"rendered":"Can past drafts help predict what Minnesota will do in 2026 NFL Draft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trends are real, and they are prevalent in the 2026 NFL Draft. <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Francisco;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Francisco&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a> takes a running back in rounds three or four, Carolina has gone wide receiver in back-to-back drafts and could do it again this year, etc. Do the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/minnesota\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Vikings;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Minnesota Vikings&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> have trends in the first round, and could they help us predict where Minnesota will go on Thursday?<\/p>\n<p>Here are the first-round picks for the Vikings over the last 15 years:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2018: Mike Highes, CB, UCF<\/p>\n<p>The position that stands out the most on this list is cornerback. The trend suggests Minnesota prefers to go secondary in round one, especially at cornerback. With Dillon Thieneman, Emmanuel McNeil-Warren, or Jermod McCoy often mocked to the Vikings, this does, in fact, match the trend.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Vikings Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/vikingswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/vikings\/2026\/04\/20\/nfl-draft-past-drafts-paint-a-picture-of-what-the-vikings-may-do\/89710078007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL Draft: Past drafts paint a picture of what the Vikings may do;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NFL Draft&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NFL Draft: Past drafts paint a picture of what the Vikings may do<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trends are real, and they are prevalent in the 2026 NFL Draft. San Francisco takes a running back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[4955,40261,1508,11809,10652,1490,6504,7,6303,1519,118043,8265,2780,27971,461,233,259,2529,6,1161,103575,300,526,1251,234,118042],"class_list":{"0":"post-870996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-anthony-barr","10":"tag-christian-darrisaw","11":"tag-cordarrelle-patterson","12":"tag-dallas-turner","13":"tag-donovan-jackson","14":"tag-florida-state","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-garrett-bradbury","17":"tag-j-j-mccarthy","18":"tag-jeff-gladney","19":"tag-jordan-addison","20":"tag-justin-jefferson","21":"tag-laquon-treadwell","22":"tag-lewis-cine","23":"tag-minnesota","24":"tag-minnesota-vikings","25":"tag-minnesotavikings","26":"tag-nfl","27":"tag-san-francisco","28":"tag-sharrif-floyd","29":"tag-teddy-bridgewater","30":"tag-tennessee","31":"tag-trae-waynes","32":"tag-vikings","33":"tag-xavier-rhodes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116440838892320296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}