EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) β The Minnesota Vikings have selected right tackle T.J. Clemmings in the fourth round of the NFL draft.
Clemmings was taken 110th overall, the first of six picks the Vikings took into Saturday. The 6-foot-6, 315-pound Clemmings, a first team All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection at Pittsburgh, was the first offensive player drafted by the Vikings. He started all 26 games at right tackle the last two seasons, after switching from defensive end before his junior year.
Clemmings was a basketball star at Paterson Catholic High School in New Jersey, with scholarship offers from Providence and Seton Hall. He played only two seasons of prep football.
Both of Minnesota’s starting tackles, Matt Kalil and Phil Loadholt, struggled in several games last year.
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