MINNESOTA VIKINGS
The last dog above the cliff — the cut between Minnesota and the breed below is one of the natural gaps this whole board is built on. The edge room graded top-five and the interior is honest. But the offense is a 39 whose dawgest player is an 8.5 receiver arriving via free agency at pick 130 of the frozen board. When the toughest grade on the roster is the new guy, the vibes read notices.
The Four Factors
Each factor is normalized 0–100 across the league — 100 is first, 0 is dead last — then weighted into the 40.6. Weights are the same for all 32 teams: defense 35, offense 30, history 20, coaching 15.
DEFENSE
× 35%Mid-pack. Not the problem, not the identity. The room-by-room read is below.
OFFENSE
× 30%Bottom third of the league. The market prices this group politely; my grades were less polite.
HISTORY
× 20%Bottom third. The ring-counter has almost nothing recent to count — this column is mostly my read on the franchise's identity, and it wasn't generous.
COACHING
× 15%League-middle fingerprint. Goes for it when the book insists, punts when it merely suggests.
The Unit Room
The raw grades behind the factors — my dawg read on each unit group, 1 to 10, with its weight inside the defense factor and where it ranks among the 32. Defense is graded by unit group this season, not player-by-player — per-player cap-hit weighting arrives when the final 2026 cap tables settle. Said loudly on the main board, said loudly here.
The Roster Sheet
Every Viking on the frozen ADP board — the market's price next to my dawg read. The two numbers were never allowed to meet: I scored the player blind, then ADP told me how much of the offense rides on him. That firewall is the whole method. Names that link go to that player's file in the prop room; the rest don't have one yet.
| ADP | PLAYER | POS | DAWG |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.0 | Justin JeffersonFILE → | WR | 7.0 / 10 |
| 92.6 | Jordan Addison | WR | 6.0 / 10 |
| 95.6 | Aaron Jones Sr. | RB | 6.5 / 10 |
| 130.5 | Jauan Jennings | WR | 8.5 / 10 |
| 130.6 | Jordan Mason | RB | 7.5 / 10 |
| 150.3 | Kyler Murray | QB | 5.5 / 10 |
| 153.4 | T.J. Hockenson | TE | 6.5 / 10 |
Jauan Jennings is the dawg the rest of this sheet answers to — a 8.5. And note pick 131: the market filed Jordan Mason there. I filed him at 7.5. The market prices touches. I price want-to.
Where the Paper Rides
The season-long ledger lives on the main board and grades itself all year. Here is the Vikings' part in it, breed against breed.
VIKINGS VS THE LADDER
| OPPONENT'S BREED | ROTTWEILER | GOLDEN RETR. | GREYHOUND | COCKER SPAN. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE PLAY | 2 UNITS · OPPONENT | 1 UNIT · OPPONENT | NO PLAY | 1 UNIT · MIN |
Greyhound games split three ways: the paper rides against the Vikings when a bigger breed shows up, rides with them against the Spaniels, and sits out the all-track-team matchups. Locked all year, graded in public. If the finesse label is wrong, the count will say so — I don't re-grade. I watch.