2012 Who Ya Gonna Draft? – Trumaine Johnson

PJD is on vacation. During this time, we’ve decided we’ll take a quick look at potential Minnesota Vikings draft picks for the second or later rounds. With so many needs and so many draft picks to get this team back to a place where we can at least pretend they are respectable, we’ll have plenty of ground to cover. Let us know what you think of each prospect in the comments, and whether or not they’d be a good fit or impact player, and of course if you can think of a funny nickname for them.

Today, we look at Montana cornerback Trumaine Johnson.

From ESPN’s draft analysis, who probably knows just as much about anything to do with Montana as I do:

As we’ve established, cornerback is a pressing need for the Vikings. PRESSING. Like, “you might have to cheer for a domestic abuser in Chris Cook because we LITERALLY have no other options” pressing. I think what people end up liking about Johnson is his size. At 6’2″, 205 lbs, he’d be a good fit to guard the ridiculously sized wide receivers that are starting to become the norm in the NFL. As we saw with Chris Cook, when you have a guy who starts playing up to his potential against someone like Calvin Johnson (think the first Vikings/Lions game and Cook’s diving pass break-up pre-beating-the-shit-out-of-his-girlfriend), that puts your team in a good spot. Johnson appears to have those intangibles, and could maybe be coached up to be a solid 1 or 2 cornerback for us. If he were able to do that, he’d be a solid choice for the Vikings, although likely not where he’s ranked at currently, which is 50th overall. That’d put him somewhere in the middle of the second round, and I would see the Vikings picking him until the mid-3rd or 4th, if it came to that.

If they did though, it’d be pretty cool to have a “Johnson & Johnson” match-up. BUT WOULD IT BE TEARS FREE?! No, probably not for the Vikings, ever.