Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah continued to trade during the second round on Friday, going down in exchange with the Packers before continuing up in a deal with the Colts to pick Clemson cornerback Andrew Booth Jr. with the 42nd overall pick.
The Vikings rose 11 places from the 53rd pick to further strengthen their second place by choosing Booth, a former five-star rookie who played for the Tigers for three years. He is the second rookie in defense to join the Vikings since Georgia’s first-round selection of Lefty’s Blue Security.
The Vikings then added LSU offensive lineman Ed Ingram later in the second round and Oklahoma defender Brian Asamoah in the third.
After making a deal with the Lions to drop 20 places in the first round, the Vikings opened the second day of the draft by trading with another rival in the division, sending the second pick of the evening (34 in total) to the Packers in exchange for № 53 and № 59 Green Bay chose broad-based successor Christian Watson of North Dakota with the 34th pick.
“The phone’s ringing, man. Pick it up,” said Adofo-Mensa, who is managing his first project as NFL’s director general. “We are seriously considering making another deal in our division for another successor. And so far on the board I don’t believe we still had a corner. The weight of this is not lost on me. In the end, I feel we were rewarded for what we did. “
Minnesota then sent № 53, along with № 77 and № 192, to Colts in exchange for № 42 and a fourth-round pick (№ 122) on Saturday.
With the 59th overall pick of the Packers, the Vikings took Ingram, choosing an offensive lineman in the first three rounds for the sixth year in a row.
The 23-year-old Ingram has been a four-year-old LSU left and right guard, most recently selected as the second All-SEC team by coaches last season. He was removed for the 2018 season after being charged with two counts of gross sexual assault on a minor. He was reinstated before the 2019 season after those charges were dropped.
Adofo-Mensa said the team had conducted a “thorough investigation” into the allegations and Ingram, including talking to people in and around the situation, in and around …
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