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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

5 new Vikings GM candidates revealed

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks about 5 new candidates for the Vikings general manager position that were reported on Thursday by ESPN's Adam Schefter and NFL Network's Tom Pelissero. Breaking down each candidate's background and talking about a very clear overall theme. 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:11.5

Matthew Collar here.

0:12.7

And guess what, folks?

0:14.4

It's in a shocking, stunning development.

0:18.2

The names of the GM candidates that the Vikings are looking at somehow made it out into

0:24.4

the universe.

0:25.2

We're going to do a deep dive investigation.

0:27.8

We've got federal agents looking right now for who might have leaked this information

0:33.1

out to NFL insiders, but we've got it.

0:35.9

We have five more candidates after yesterday we talked about Terrence Gray from the

0:42.3

Buffalo Bills interviewing or being requested to interview for the Minnesota Vikings

0:47.8

Open General Manager position, and we've got a bunch of more names.

0:51.6

And as I go through this, I'm going gonna go through all of them you might start to

0:55.7

notice a little bit of a trend and we'll get to that and exactly what that means but there's also

1:02.0

plenty of room and plenty of time for all questions comments thoughts and feelings regarding

1:07.9

the Minnesota Vikings so you don't have to stick to the GM search.

1:11.4

If you've got other thoughts, other takes, fire them in the chat.

1:14.7

And after I go through the five candidates, we will fire up the conversation as well.

1:19.6

And you can give your thoughts if you have them on some of these candidates.

1:23.8

But I think the most interesting thing is what Kevin Seifert had to say about it,

1:28.6

which I will read you at the end after we go through each reported candidate.

1:33.9

So let's go.

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