Fun factoids about the Vikings' 2015 draft class

You've probably done plenty of research on the Vikings draft class as players, whether you read the scouting reports or watched their highlights. But you might not know much about them as people.

While covering the NFL draft at Winter Park, the Twin Cities media got to chat with all 10 picks on conference calls and we got handed a tall stack of papers with information on each of the players.

Here is a fun factoid for each of the team's draft picks, starting with top selection Trae Waynes:

— I wrote about this in my story on Waynes for Saturday, but I'll share it again. The cornerback broke his fibula and ankle and tore three ligaments during his senior football season in high school. But Waynes rehabbed quickly enough to finish third in the state in the 100-meter dash that spring.

— Second-round pick Eric Kendricks is a leap year baby. Asked on a conference call about being the NFL's youngest player, the linebacker quipped, "Being five and being in the pros is definitely an accomplishment of mine. I've dreamt about this since I was three years old." Good one, rookie.

— Defensive end Danielle Hunter, the team's third-round pick, got into the sport in a strange way. In fifth grade, he decided to try to chase down a friend on roller skates. He caught the kid, whose dad happened to be a football coach. That coach soon had Hunter, who is from Jamaica, in pads.

— Fourth-round pick T.J. Clemmings, a tackle, was a pretty good hoops player, enough that he got interest at the college level in that sport, too. One school offered him a chance to play football and basketball: Duke. But he chose to focus on football and signed on to play at Pittsburgh.

— Wide receiver Stefon Diggs, who was selected in the fifth round a few picks after Pruitt, suffered a lacerated kidney in Maryland's win over Penn State last fall. After a brief absence, Diggs, who was one of the NCAA's top prospects in 2012, returned to that game and nearly scored a touchdown.

— Offensive tackle Tyrus Thompson, a sixth-round pick, is 23 but already a family man. Thompson got married his redshirt sophomore year at Oklahoma and now has two children. He and his wife both come from a military background. His mother-in-law used to be a sniper in the U.S. military.

— B.J. Dubose is a 284-pound defensive tackle, but the sixth-round pick used to snag passes from Teddy Bridgewater. The Florida natives played on a 7-on-7 team together as teenagers and Dubose was a tight end. They ended up being teammates at Louisville, too, but Dubose moved to defense.

— Seventh-round pick Austin Shepherd, the former Alabama offensive tackle who still start off as a guard here, started the Austin Shepherd Foundation in 2012. Founded in memory of his girlfriend's brother, who died of bone cancer, the foundation helps support children battling the disease.