During the Vikings’ glory years, the team’s top personnel experts favored a motto that was based on coach Bud Grant’s stoic demeanor and patient approach:
“We’ll just hang in there until everyone else in the division falls apart.’’
During the 2020 NFL draft, the Vikings appeared take a number of quality players who fill needs. More important for their immediate future: They honored Grant and the glory days by refusing to do anything stupid. That alone set them apart from the rest of the NFC North.
Feel free to mutter the usual disclaimers: No one knows how these picks or draft classes will turn out.