Kyle Rudolph News

The Vikings have numbers, all right -- more than a dozen free-agent signings of varying importance, 10 draft picks and a bevy of undrafted free agents fill out the Vikings' 90-man roster during this week's organized team activities.

For the Minnesota Vikings , the 2012 season holds plenty of promise. After finishing at the bottom of the NFC North the past two seasons, there is plenty of excitement surrounding the Vikings' draft picks.

Coach Leslie Frazier and the Minnesota Vikings are, for the most part, the same team that finished 3-13 in the 2011 season.

The Minnesota Vikings suffered from the limited preseason practice time during last year's work stoppage as much as any other NFL team.

For a guy still just starting out, Clay Matthews has had a pretty big impact. The first two years of his career have made him a force to be reckoned with, a linebacker nightmare who looks like he was designed just to annihilate offenses.

The Minnesota Vikings , theoretically, have most of their positions set for the upcoming 2012 season.

Before we got fully engulfed in Stadiumania, we were going through and taking a look at the players that the Vikings selected in the 2012 NFL Draft.

The Vikings ' 2011 roster was more top-heavy than Christina Hendricks . Superstars Adrian Peterson , Percy Harvin and Jared Allen comprised one of the best trios in the league, but due to insufficient support, the team sagged to a 3-13 record.

The success of the 2011 NFL draft class for the Vikings will largely rest on the shoulders of Christian Ponder and, to a lesser extent, tight end Kyle Rudolph.

First thing Monday morning, the lifelong fan pulled on her purple and gold T-shirt and cap and drove nearly 40 miles from her home in Mound to the State Capitol in St.

Minnesota's Kyle Rudolph, left, celebrates his one-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter with teammate Visanthe Shiancoe, right, against the Raiders.

Apr 27, 2012; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Minnesota Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier poses with first round draft pick Matt Kalil from Southern California during a news conference at Vikings headquarters.

Have the Minnesota Vikings put quarterback Christian Ponder in position to succeed in 2012? Ponder finished his rookie season with a series of injuries and poor decisions, playing behind a patchwork offensive line and with a limited set of weapons in the passing game.