He made 106 tackles in 2013 and made 149 in 2014, third in the nation. Mount Greenwood Fighting Irish traded: QB Josh Allen, BUF QB Dwayne Haskins, WAS QB Kyler Murray, ARI RB … LB Eric Kendricks, MIN 2.08 draft pick. Follow full coverage of Eric Kendricks during the 2015 NFL Draft on ESPN.com. League of American Football, 2020-05-14. Minnesota Vikings traded: RB Chris Carson, SEA 2021 R1 draft pick. David is better in man-to-man coverage than Kendricks, while Kendricks brings a little more physicality to the field. Follow full coverage of Eric Kendricks during the 2015 NFL Draft on ESPN.com. At 252 pounds, Hunter will probably need to put some weight on over time, but he is 6-foot-5 with arms longer than 34 inches. He then traded the 80th pick to the Lions for the 88th overall pick in the third round and a fifth-rounder (No. With the 45th pick in the draft, the Vikings selected UCLA inside linebacker Eric Kendricks.

But the inexperienced newcomers will have the benefit of Harrison Smith and Anthony Harris at safety. He is explosive, too, having run the 40-yard dash in 4.57 seconds at the combine, tops among all defensive linemen.The Vikings will enter the final day of the draft with six picks.

The hard part will be replacing the three top cornerbacks from last season. David was a second-round pick because of size concerns in the 2012 NFL Draft. 110 overall), two fifths (Nos. He added a sixth-round pick (No. 143).When Spielman finally picked a player in the third, he went with LSU defensive end Danielle Hunter.Hunter, a junior, had just 1.5 sacks this past season. For that he just won the Butkus Award.A little on the short side at 6-foot and tipping the scales at 232 pounds, Kendricks makes up for his smaller frame with speed — he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.61 seconds in Indy — and the ability to cover in space. But he led LSU with 13 tackles for a loss and recorded 73 tackles. Kendricks solidified his status as one of the draft's top linebackers with an impressive performance at the 2015 NFL Combine; his 4.61 40-yard dashwas one of the fastest times among linebackers. No Vikings players are on the team’s COVID list after second-year tackle Oli Udoh was cleared to return on Thursday. The browser you are using is no longer supported on this site. The following browsers are supported: Chrome, Edge (v80 and later), Firefox and Safari.

It is highly recommended that you use the latest versions of a supported browser in order to receive an optimal viewing experience. He is a former teammate of outside linebacker Anthony Barr, the team's first pick last year. I think Kendricks will … He could end up being the three-down middle linebacker the Vikings are looking for.The Kendricks pick is the first time the Vikings have selected a player in the second round since General Manager Rick Spielman gained final say in the team's draft room before the 2012 draft.In the third round, Spielman finally got busy on the trade front. Kendricks solidified his status as one of the draft's top linebackers with an impressive performance at the 2015 NFL Combine; his 4.61 40-yard dash was one of the fastest times among linebackers. LB Eric Kendricks, MIN 2.08 draft pick. © 2019 Minnesota Vikings Football, LLC , All Rights Reserved.

Mount Greenwood Fighting Irish traded: QB Josh Allen, BUF QB Dwayne Haskins, WAS QB Kyler Murray, ARI RB … As a senior in 2014, he won the Butkus Award as the nation's top collegiate linebacker and received All-Ame For a second straight year, the Vikings have used one of their top picks on a linebacker from UCLA.

193) and two sevenths (Nos. Eric-Nathan M. Kendricks (born February 29, 1992) is an American football middle linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). 193 overall) from the Chiefs by trading down from the 76th pick to the 80th pick. An already-green list of potential backups was dealt a blow when Cameron Smith announced that he needs open heart surgery and will miss the 2020 season.