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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Big name free agents for the Vikings? Let's see if any work

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

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fanduel, Matthew

0:14.6

Collar here.

0:15.8

And I want to, for this episode, take a look at big swings that the Minnesota Vikings could take.

0:23.0

I think we've been of the assumption that this year with their cap situation,

0:26.6

it's more likely than not, that they are going to look for a lot of players who might be

0:31.4

on the fringes or not the big money guys.

0:33.5

But you know what?

0:34.6

With the way the salary cap works, it's always possible that the Vikings could surprise

0:40.0

us with a bigger acquisition than we expect, or they could slide all their eggs into one

0:45.2

basket or chips to the middle of the table, whichever you like, and go bigger on one or two

0:51.0

free agents rather than trying to patch this hole and patch that hole.

0:55.4

So I've got a list of eight bigger name free agents, along with the estimates from the

1:00.9

athletic of how much it would cost for those players.

1:04.7

And we could talk about how each one might be a good idea and maybe how each one might be

1:09.9

a tad on the questionable side for the

1:12.5

Vikings to spend big. Before I get to my list, I did want to say thank you so much to the people

1:18.0

who sent kind messages about my episode reporting on the death of Rondale Moore.

1:24.5

It meant a lot to me to get those messages because it was not an easy one to make.

1:29.3

And I also wanted to be as thoughtful and as delicate with a difficult, difficult

1:34.6

situations I could.

1:35.9

So it meant a lot to get messages from folks.

1:38.9

And I just want to remind everyone, let's not make Rondale Moore's story just a one day and then move on type of thing.

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