The Minnesota Vikings found themselves in need of a new quarterback after the departure of Kirk Cousins during the offseason, and the team made a pretty significant move to select a new quarterback, trading up one spot in the draft to select Michigan Wolverines quarterback J.J. McCarthy. And the Vikings explained the decision to trade up after the draft.
The decision to trade up one spot to select J.J. McCarthy ultimately cost the Vikings a fourth-round pick and a fifth-round pick, but Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah made it clear that he thinks decisions like that are worth it to go and get a player they think has a chance to be great.
“You know, we’re always talking about minimizing regret,” Adofo-Mensah said according to Ben Goessling of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “If you’re sitting on your couch one day, and you’re like, ‘That extra fifth [-round pick] or whatever it was, and you could have had a chance at a guy you think could be special,’ you’re never going to care about that fifth-round pick. And there’s ways of getting it back. Obviously, I’m a spreadsheet guy myself, but sometimes, you’ve got to step out from there, take your Clark Kent glasses off, have a championship mindset and swing for a great player.”
We’ll have to see how this all plays out for the Vikings.
