The NFL Draft is such a difficult mountain to climb and overcome if you are a team within the league. Think about it: for a game, you prepare for five days and you feel that is a great week and have a decent chance at success. For the NFL Draft, the front office staff can work on that for 12 months and still have players miss.
While the draft remains imperfect for teams to handle, are there ever any perfect fits in the yearly tradition?
PFF released their list of the dream fits for all 32 teams this past week. For the Minnesota Vikings, they tabbed Georgia safety Malaki Starks. They write, “The Vikings are facing a massive rebuild of their secondary, with Josh Metellus standing as the lone cornerback or safety left under contract who recorded 80 or more defensive snaps this past season. Snagging the top available safeties in both free agency and the draft would surely set this secondary up for success.”
They write in the section there about getting the top safeties in free agency and the draft, what they are alluding to is they also tabbed them to sign Javon Holland.
Starks started the year as a top-ten pick in early mock drafts before the 2024 season. When that happens, players can sometimes be over-analyzed and picked over more than they should, and I believe that happens with Starks. If the Vikings land him at 24, that would be a great injection into the secondary for Brian Flores’ defense.