The last time the Vikings selected an offensive lineman in the first three rounds of the NFL draft, our current U.S. president was firing B-list celebs such as George Takei and Debbie Gibson on television, iPhones had just recently started talking back to us and Adrian Peterson was still furiously rehabbing his blown-out left knee.
It has been five years since the Vikings picked left tackle Matt Kalil fourth overall in 2012. Since then, as they instead drafted late-round linemen and hoped that they could develop a couple of them into another Matt Birk or John Sullivan, the Vikings have watched their offensive line decay into one of the league's worst units.