Usually this time of year spring football means an inter-squad scrimmage game with college teams and a focus on the NFL Draft. This year was much different.
The NFL Draft was one of the most normal things we’ve seen with large gatherings since February of 2020. The excitement, the energy of the crowd and Commissioner Roger Goodell doing the draft from a podium, not his family room was fun to see.
Grading the draft, I thought the Vikings did well drafting great talent and filling needs as well as depth. Will all of these guys work out, time will tell. The players who stand out to me that might help right away are 4th rounder, Camryn Bynum, CB, California who will move to Safety, 1st rounder Christian Darrisaw, OT, Virginia Tech and third-rounder Wyatt Davis, G, Ohio State both could start right away. I’d give the Vikings an A grade on this year’s draft.
In college football around here, instead of spring football games featuring green vs. gold or green vs. white we had the NCAA FCS Playoffs. Unfortunately for the two universities in North Dakota, the season is over. NDSU had the unfortunate situation of the season being moved and their highly touted quarterback Trey Lance chose to focus on the NFL Draft, which worked out for him getting selected third overall by San Francisco, but the team didn’t have a back-up who was championship material to replace him the way Easton Stick did after Carson Wentz broke his hand in 2015. No doubt the Bison will be back in the fall ready and with a chip on their shoulder.
UND had a great spring season, and you can see this program is going in the right direction. The only concerning thing is in their two losses to NDSU and James Madison they got pushed at the line of scrimmage. There is no doubt the head coach of Fighting Hawks football Bubba Schweigert will fix that by the fall. Regardless, having your only two losses be to the two programs that have dominated the FCS the last 10 ten years.
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