Vikings I’m down a sketch. By Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press (on Twitter), the Vikings lost a selection in the seventh round in this year’s draft (no. 242).
“A mistake was made, we take responsibility and respect the league’s decision and we will move forward,” CEO Rick Spielman he said in a statement.
According to Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com, the penalty refers to a 2019 offense. There was some kind of breach of a practice team player’s contract, but it’s not certain who the player was or who the breach was.
Three Viking directors were also fined $ 10,000 each on Smith.
Some draft notes around the NFL:
- neither saints neither Raiders will lose a project due to violations of COVID-19 policies, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com. “I don’t lose them,” McCarthy said. “Neither team will lose that election.” According to the reporter, there were rumors that New Orleans would lose a selection from the seventh round following a “disguised celebration of the locker room”, and the Raiders should have lost the sixth round due to multiple violations. While the NFL provided no context on their decision, Florio assumes that both organizations appealed their sanctions and were successful.
- When the NFL announced the compensation elections for the 2021 project, Patriots he had no choice in the fifth round. However, a source confirmed to PFT that New England did indeed receive a fifth round in the next draft. According to Smith, the NFL “made a mistake in calculating the complex formula for determining compensatory choices,” leading to additional selection by the Patriots.
- Thanks to the aforementioned NFL compensatory audit, hawks Also moving two slots in the fifth round, according to Smith. In addition, although the NFL allows the addition of 32 compensatory selections each year, this time they made an exception. Thanks to the additional selection of the Patriots draft, Bears he would not normally have received that final compensatory choice; The NFL and NFL Players Association finally allowed Chicago to keep that selection.