Caleb Banks

Banks was a high-risk, high-reward pick (remember the Vikings did the draft without a GM). A reddit post about him smartly asked if he is Chris Jones or Javon Kinlaw. He has the size and explosiveness to be a Pro Bowl talent inside, but his injury history is rough.

The Vikings unceremoniously dumped Javon Hargrave and Jonathan Allen this offseason, one year after giving them big deals to provide interior rush. Banks' best-case scenario would be gangbusters for that strategy.  After the team traded away its only good pass rusher, Jonathan Greenard, to the Eagles, they need Banks to work out and to work out in year 1. 

Jake Golday

Golday is another run/pass rush-first off-ball linebacker. Tucker Kraft is going to tear these guys up. 

The Vikings like these types of guys because they want their inside backers to be able to blitz at any moment - Golday can do that with power - the depressing part is that their best linebacker in coverage might be edge rusher Andrew Van Ginkel. 

Golday does have the speed and athleticism to develop as a linebacker in coverage, but he is another guy who could be a square peg whenever Brian Flores takes a head coach job. 

Domonique Orange

Orange was a Packers Twitter favorite and is probably better suited for Green Bay than the Vikings. Right now, he is a plugger at nose tackle with athletic upside. 

The defense he played in at Iowa State did not do well to show off his talent or develop him as a pass rusher. 

Athletically, he compares well to Kenny Clark. If he hits that upside and Banks stays healthy, the Vikings picked a helluva interior line in one draft. More likely, because they're the Vikings, one or both will burn out or play better somewhere else. 

Caleb Tiernan

Tiernan is a T. rex at tackle, at 6'8 he will be one of the tallest tackles in the league; with arms only 32.25 inches long, he will basically have the shortest arms in the league. Crazy. 

Two confounding variables here: they changed the way arms are measured a few years ago, and a lot of measurements now are coming back an inch or more shorter than at pro days or the Senior Bowl, and Tiernan will probably move to guard, where his arm length is more like 20th percentile. 

Here's the other problem: his weakness as a sa tackle was anchoring and strength. So you're telling me he's going to be blocking 330-pounders now with his little arms? OK. 

Jakobe Thomas

The final pick in the first four rounds was safety Jakobe Thomas. Thomas may be the team's attempt to replace Harrison Smith next year. 

He didn't do any testing, but he does profile as more of an in-the-box safety. Even the damn defensive backs can't cover in the Flores defense.  

It's a point worth making, and maybe we'll talk about it more in a future article, but when you build the team to suit a coordinator who gets head coach interviews every offseason you can screw up the roster for the next guy.