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Published April 22, 2008 12:33 am - Bolstering the offensive line should be the Vikings’ next order of business. Vikings should take tackle with first pick Shane Frederick Free Press Staff Writer Editor’s note: This is the first of three columns opining on whom the Vikings should select in the first round of Saturday’s NFL Draft. Jim Rueda’s column will appear Thursday, and Chad Courrier’s will run Friday.
A year ago, I argued that the Minnesota Vikings had a chance to draft the new face of the franchise. I argued that, heading into the NFL draft, that the Vikings were in full-blown rebuilding mode, that they were a team lost without an on-field leader. I said they had a chance, with the seventh overall pick, to take player whose name would become synonymous with the team, a player whose name and jersey number would pop into the heads of even the most causal of football fans every time they heard the words Minnesota Vikings. I’m happy to report that the Vikings took my advice and selected Adrian Peterson. What’s that? I didn’t make a case for Peterson? That was Rueda? OK, OK. So I made a pitch for quarterback Brady Quinn. I said the Vikings had to quit this Tarvaris Jackson nonsense and get a real franchise quarterback. Quinn and JaMarcus Russell, I said, fit that mold. But the Vikings did right by choosing the electrifying Peterson, who very nearly burst on the scene like Randy Moss did nine years earlier. Now, Minnesota is weighing its options for Saturday’s 17th overall pick. Quarterback time, right? Wrong. Barring an injury, Jackson is coach Brad Childress’ man. He’s the quarterback the Vikings are going to live or die with, no matter the public or media sentiment. So now the Vikings are obligated to give him some help. They’ve already started doing just that by trading receiving bust Troy Williamson — who, by the way, did nothing to help the young quarterback’s confidence in both training camp and the regular season — and by signing former Bears wideout Bernard Berrian as a free agent. Bolstering the offensive line should be the Vikings’ next order of business. 
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