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Michael Rand: Will the Vikings pick a QB in first three rounds of NFL Draft?

It's now April 1, and this is no joke: After a horrendous month of March, we can at least start to try to think about warmer weather, better times ahead and actual things on the sports calendar.

Chief among them: The NFL Draft, which is going on as scheduled April 23-25 _ albeit in a different form, with prospects and their families not in attendance and everything being handled virtually. (You can still boo Roger Goodell from a safe distance, however).

On the most recent Access Vikings podcast, we talked about the Vikings' draft strategy _ and whether they might pick a quarterback with a meaningful selection. Let's say that means sometime in the first three rounds, when Minnesota has five choices _ two firsts (including one from Buffalo in the Stefon Diggs trade), a second and two thirds (including a compensatory pick).

Here are three reasons it makes sense that they would pick a QB with one of those five picks _ and three reasons it doesn't make sense.

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