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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

BONUS Episode: ESPN's Kalyn Kahler and Ross Tucker talk GM search, drafting DTs

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

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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0:00.0

All right.

0:01.3

We welcome back into the show from ESPN, Kailen Kaler, fresh off of Prospect X reporting,

0:08.2

which your prospect X story once produced Levi Drake Rodriguez to the Minnesota Vikings.

0:14.5

This year also drafted again.

0:16.9

So I encourage people to Google that, find that story.

0:19.9

It's just phenomenal outstanding reporting, as always, Kailen Kaler.

0:24.3

What is going on?

0:25.3

How are you?

0:26.5

Hey, I'm doing well.

0:28.0

I'm glad he was drafted.

0:29.8

I get really freaked out about that every year.

0:33.1

But it does make watching day three like so much more fun because I'm like sweating it out as if, you know, like as journalists, like we're not supposed to root for teams or, you know, really have any sort of interest in, you know, anything we cover.

0:49.3

But when I feel like when you do cover individuals, like, use and especially like somebody who's at the bottom of the draft,

0:55.2

who's like just, you know, just dying to be drafted.

0:58.3

Like it does, obviously you start rooting for them.

1:02.5

And like I've done this story now for so many years

1:05.5

that like scouts actually tip me on the pick.

1:08.5

So because they'll kind of know who it is that I picked,

1:11.8

even though I never admit to them, like, what player it is. Like, and really for no other reason, then it's just like a fun game at this point, you know? So like, um, uh, with my prospect X, he's like a bottom of the draft sleeper who I keep anonymous in the first one so like scouts figure it out pretty

1:27.9

quickly especially if he's in their area you know who he is and it's funny because like

1:33.8

there'll be like a group of them you know the Vikings particularly love the story because they've

1:39.4

had they've they've picked the guy a couple times um or they picked Levi Drake and then they signed Christian Ellis, who actually is the most successful of all of them.

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