Considering all the mock drafts sending Trae Waynes to the Vikings with the #11 overall, you could forgive fans if they’d come to believe the pick was by now a foregone conclusion.
But if the Anthony Barr pick taught us anything it’s that we shouldn’t count our draft chickens before they hatch. Not when it’s the wily Rick Spielman running the draft room.
Perception in this case is not necessarily reality, folks. Mock drafters do not have a direct line to the brains of Rick Spielman and Mike Zimmer (most of them do not even have a direct line to their own brains).