Can we learn anything from the Vikings' draft room video?

"Living dangerously today, baby," Adofo-Mensah said after making the trade.

Two weeks removed from the NFL Draft, the Minnesota Vikings on Thursday released a 20-minute video showing moments from inside the team's draft room at TCO Performance Center in Eagan. If there's anything to be learned from the video, it's that GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah was sweating out each pick after trading back to the end of the first round. 

Adofo-Mensah can be heard whispering to head coach Kevin O'Connell that it was "nerve-racking" and "we gotta now nervously watch" before selecting Georgia safety Lewis Cine with the last pick in the first round. 

When it was announced over the loudspeaker that the Bengals took safety Daxton Hill with the No. 31 selection, Adofo-Mensah let out a big sigh of relief. 

The deal with the Lions required Minnesota giving up the No. 12 and 46 picks in exchange for picks 32, 34 and 66. They got Cine at 32, and then had three picks, including their own at 77, to build the roster with second- and third-round picks. 

Leaning over to Vikings owners Zygi and Mark Wilf, O'Connell said: "We now also have where we think the most value in the draft is, is that 34 through 77 and now we have four picks in that range."

So the strategy, apparently all along, was to trade back and acquire picks in a range that they felt had a ton of value. But when the Packers came calling for the 34th pick, Adofo-Mensah made the trade in exchange for picks 53 and 59. 

So that gave them 53, 59, 66 and 77. But then more pressure, this time to move back up to go after a player they were targeting: Clemson cornerback Andrew Booth Jr. 

"He's by far the best guy on our board," Adofo-Mensah said of Booth Jr., with O'Connell raving about Booth's length. The Vikings swap picks 53, 77 and 192 with the Colts for 42 and 122, taking Booth Jr. with 42. 

"Living dangerously today, baby," Adofo-Mensah said after making the trade. 

Ryan Grigson, senior football advisor for the Vikings and former Colts GM, looked O'Connell in the eye and said of Booth, "He's a dog. He's a f****** dog."

Still eyeing that 34-77 window for what they viewed as the best value in the draft, the Vikings still had picks at 59 and 66. They got LSU offensive guard Ed Ingram at 59, with O'Connell commenting in the draft room that "there's a significant drop from Ingram to the next group here." At 66, the Vikings took Oklahoma linebacker Brian Asamoah. 

"If we can turn this into what I want to turn it around, we'll have a better team," said Adofo-Mensah. 

It'll likely be years before we know how good this draft class is, but video evidence certainly suggests that the draft went at least somewhat according to plan for the first-year GM.