Bears General Manager Ryan Pace told Chicago reporters Tuesday that all seven screens for his personal NFL draft room went blank recently when his wife tripped the cord with the vacuum cleaner. But another “hiccup” during Monday’s league-wide test run of this virtual NFL draft — when a Cincinnati Bengals technical difficulty delayed the No. 1 pick — does not concern Vikings GM Rick Spielman before he’s on the clock Thursday night.
“I’m very confident in some of the backup plans,” Spielman said Tuesday. “One thing I know, everybody’s cellphones do work.”
Extensive back channels are set up to ensure a fluid operation, according to Spielman, while Vikings brass has spent the past month between player research and virtual test runs of systems in their homes.