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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

10 most intriguing free agents for the Vikings (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Nfl Team, Football, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Minnesota, Vikings, Sports

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller looks unveils his list of the most intriguing free agents for the Vikings and chats with fans about The Athletic's top 100 free agents list and looks at an interesting Kyler Murray trade idea. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fandul.

0:11.0

Matthew Collar here.

0:12.7

And tonight, I have made another list this time my top 10 most interesting free agents.

0:19.9

And I think I actually went with intriguing

0:22.0

because this isn't just the best free agents for the Minnesota Vikings I mean we

0:27.4

could go through the free agency list to just say well yeah it'd be great if they could

0:31.4

get Trey Hendrickson or you know Brees Hall but I tried to go a little more of an

0:36.3

angle with the consideration that the Vikings are not likely to just be able to spend like Mad Men.

0:45.0

So I'm trying to look at players who are a little more on the affordable side.

0:50.3

And then some of them even maybe a little upside or could fit with this team for a specific reason.

0:56.8

So I'm going to run down that list.

0:58.5

And then we're going to look at the athletics top 152 or 7 or whatever number that they did.

1:05.6

We're going to scroll through that list and talk about guys that we think could be a target for the Minnesota Vikings.

1:12.8

But I went mostly intrigue here and not just, hey, here's the top 10 free agents,

1:18.9

because some of them are not that affordable.

1:22.7

And even though the Vikings can certainly pull a lot of levers and create cap space,

1:27.7

they don't have endless cap space.

1:30.0

This is not the 2024 offseason where they could go get Jonathan Grenard and Andrew

1:35.7

Van Ginkle and Blake Cashman and Sam Darnold and just kind of bring it everybody.

1:40.3

And then last year they did the same type of thing.

1:42.9

This is more you're going to have to use a scalpel and not a chainsaw to address

1:48.0

free agency.

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