Irv Smith white jersey , but one player is mounting a challenge"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Vikings 2018 SeasonVikings 2019 OffseasonU.S. Bank StadiumMinnesota Vikings PodcastsNFL Draft2019 Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database2019 Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database, Version 4.0New,67commentsCody Ford continues to lead, but one player is mounting a challengeCDTShareTweetShareShare2019 Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database, Version 4.0Kim Klement-USA TODAY SportsIt’s time for Version 4.0 of the most extensive database for tracking what experts across the interwebs are projecting the Minnesota Vikings to do in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft. Yes, your Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database is ready for your consumption, and while there aren’t any huge changes this week, it appears that someone is beginning to mount a challenge to the dominance of our leader thus far.Here are the seventy. . .yes, 7-0. . .mocks that make up our Database for this week.2019 Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database, Version 4.0SiteNameDateRound 1 (18)Round 2 (50)Round 3 (81)SiteNameDateRound 1 (18)Round 2 (50)Round 3 (81)The offensive linemen continue to lead the way, but their actual percentage of the pie. . .or, in our case, donut. . .has decreased from last week. In Version 3.0, the OL carried 88.3% of our selections (53/60), while this week that number has dropped to 85.7% (60/70). It’s still an awfully commanding lead, but it has gone down slightly.Cody Ford, the guard out of Oklahoma, continues to lead the way, as he racked up 20 selections this week (28.57%). There’s one player that appears to be mounting a bit of a charge here in the late going, and that’s Alabama offensive tackle Jonah Williams. Williams is the second player to reach double figures in selections in our Database, as his name appears 12 times this week (17.14%).Washington State tackle Andre Dillard and North Carolina State center Garrett Bradbury now find themselves in a tie for the third spot Irv Smith Minnesota Vikings Jerseys , as they each have seven selections this week (10% each). Two guards are tied behind them for the fifth spot, as Dalton Risner of Kansas State and Chris Lindstrom of Boston College each garnered four selections this time around (5.71% each).Our SEC tackles, Jawaan Taylor of Florida and Greg Little of Mississippi, each picked up two selections this week (2.86% each), while West Virginia tackle Yodny Cajuste and Texas A&M center Erik McCoy round things out for the offensive linemen this week with one selection each (1.43% each).Again, this leaves just ten selections to be distributed for the rest of the positions, and this week the tight end spot actually finds itself in second place. T.J. Hockenson’s support increased to three selections this week (4.29%), while his Iowa teammate, Noah Fant, held on to his one selection from last week (1.43%).The defensive linemen have picked up a little support this week, as they totaled three selections between two players. Houston defensive tackle Ed Oliver doubled his support from last week, as he appears twice in this week’s Database (2.86%). In addition, after disappearing from our Database for a couple of weeks, Clemson defensive tackle Christian Wilkins is back this week with one selection (1.43%).Last, but not least, Michigan linebacker Devin Bush continues to hold things down at his position, as he still has three selections in our Database this week (4.29%).No new players jumped into our Database this week, and nobody completely dropped out from last week’s roundup.So, here are our graphical representations for this week, starting with the donut graph. As usual, you can see a whole lot of purple and not a whole lot of anything else.We’ve also got this week’s Jell-o salad graph Minnesota Vikings Jerseys 2019 , which gives us how players have gone up and down in our Database over the past few weeks. With this picture, as with the donut graph, you may click to embiggen for easier viewing.That’s our Minnesota Vikings Mock Draft Database for this week, ladies and gentlemen. We’ll be back at the same time next week with an expansion to 80 mock drafts. . .though I will say that new ones are getting more difficult to find. . .and another look at what the experts expect the Vikings to do in just five weeks. EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The allure of the gameday atmosphere was simply too strong for Gary Kubiak to ignore, having spent the past two years in a non-coaching role for Denver following another health scare.He found his place in Minnesota, with this natural opportunity to add an experienced leader and accomplished strategist to a fluctuated offensive coaching staff .“As a first-time coordinator, I would have been foolish not to go do everything in our power to bring in a guy who has been in seven Super Bowls as a player and a coach,” Vikings offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski said.Though Kubiak was the play-caller for the 2015-16 champion Broncos, his ninth of 10 seasons as an NFL head coach, that responsibility will rest with Stefanski, who has given the Vikings their own millennial-generation offensive guide in a league that has fast filled up with them. As an assistant head coach to Mike Zimmer and offensive adviser, though, Kubiak will bring a long history of supervising productive offenses and a low-ego, laid-back personality set up to mesh well with the staff.The Vikings also hired his son, Klint Kubiak (quarterbacks), and two of his longtime colleagues, Rick Dennison (offensive line) and Brian Pariani (tight ends), to try to help support Stefanski and give the offense a lift after lagging below the league average in the first season with quarterback Kirk Cousins. Gary Kubiak will be in the booth during games, with Stefanski on the sideline. Dennison will also hold the title of running game coordinator.“I like to be surrounded by smart people,” Stefanski said.After serving as Denver’s backup quarterback behind Pro Football Hall of Fame member John Elway on three AFC title-winning teams Irv Smith black jersey , Kubiak broke into the NFL coaching ranks as quarterbacks coach for the Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers in the 1994-95 season. He was offensive coordinator for the Broncos for the next 11 years, winning two more Super Bowls along the way, before becoming head coach of the Houston Texans.Kubiak suffered a mini-stroke during a game there in 2013, leading to his departure. He returned to the Broncos as head coach in 2015 and promptly won another Super Bowl. He was hospitalized again in 2016 due to a complex migraine condition that caused extreme fatigued and declared his retirement at the end of that season.Elway, now Denver’s president of football operations, then assigned Kubiak as a personnel adviser. The first year he did the job from his farm outside Houston, before working full time at Broncos headquarters in 2018. That’s when Kubiak realized he wanted back in the coaching game. He was widely expected to serve as new Denver head coach Vic Fangio’s offensive coordinator, but the two sides weren’t able to agree on the schematics .“I missed it. I really did. There’s just something about it at the end of the week: ‘Did we get a ‘W’ or not?’ Just that feeling,” Kubiak said, adding: “I love being around players. I love to teach. This gives me an opportunity to get back and do that.”For the 57-year-old Kubiak, the high-stress job of a head coach won’t work anymore, but other than his recovery from a recent hip replacement surgery he said he’s feeling good. The focus with Stefanski, Dennison and the rest of the staff this winter has been to revamp the playbook in a way that utilizes the type of zone-blocking runs and play-action passes the Broncos enjoyed success with during Kubiak’s tenure there but strives to avoid predictability.Cousins started his career with Washington under head coach Mike Shanahan, who was Kubiak’s boss on those late-1990s championship teams in Denver, so there’s a solid philosophical connection from which the Vikings to build.“We need to do everything we can to help him out. I look forward to that relationship,” Kubiak said. “Hopefully being in there a little bit — well, what little bit John let me play in my career — I can recall some of those things.”