EAGAN, Minn. — Go ahead and put an asterisk next to the Vikings’ 5-man* draft class.

Some maneuvering Friday and Saturday enabled Minnesota to take five players in total, expanding on the four selections the team held when the clock started Thursday night.

The Vikings narrowly missed breaking the franchise record for fewest picks in a draft, instead tying with the five selections in 2008 and in 2009. However, a sixth player was picked up by the Vikings.

In Round 5, Minnesota sent pick No. 142, which had been acquired Friday night, to Seattle for quarterback Sam Howell and the 172nd choice.

Vikings Head Coach Kevin O’Connell joined NFL Network’s Rich Eisen on the third day of the 2025 NFL Draft to discuss the team’s picks and give an update on the quarterbacks room after trading for Howell, a 2022 fifth-round pick.

“We still think that there’s a lot in Sam’s game to develop but also see where he can take it within our system, within our quarterback development plan here in Minnesota,” O’Connell said. “[We] feel really good about Josh McCown [coaching] that quarterbacks room, and all the talent, and the things we’ve acquired – whether [it’s] up front; the skill guys we do have that we feel so great about, and then just our system going into Year 4, the evolution of that becoming as quarterback friendly as we can make it, while also challenging defenses and trying to do the things that it takes to win football games.”