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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

BREAKING: Vikings trade for Adam Thielen

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

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Adam Thielen is back! The Vikings traded a 2026 fifth-round pick and a 2027 fourth-round pick to the Panthers for Thielen and a conditional 2026 seventh-round pick and a 2027 fifth-round pick. Matthew Coller breaks down the Vikings' trade for the veteran receiver. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. 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

Good morning, everyone.

0:07.0

Adam Thielen is once again a Minnesota Viking.

0:12.0

This morning, the Minnesota Vikings were able to complete their trade with the Carolina Panthers.

0:20.0

Yesterday, it did not look great for the possibility that

0:25.2

the Vikings and Thielen were going to get it done. The Vikings and Panthers were going to get

0:30.0

it done to bring home Adam Thielen as the Panthers cut Hunter Renfro and there was more

0:36.2

reports of, well, can they really get to a point where this is going to happen? The Panthers cut Hunter Renfro and there was more reports of, well, can they really get to a point where this is going to happen?

0:41.1

The Panthers don't have to move Thielen and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

0:45.9

But they found a common ground this morning.

0:50.3

And I think that everybody wanted this.

0:53.4

And at the end of the day, that's why it happens.

0:55.8

The Vikings wanted Adam Thielen badly.

0:58.6

We went over the many options that were underwhelming for the Vikings.

1:03.2

All the different players, well, you could pick up this guy that was waived or that guy that was waived,

1:08.1

but nobody had the recent resume of Adam Thielen.

1:11.6

So they wanted him as their number one target.

1:15.1

And for the Carolina Panthers, they have three young receivers that did well in training camp,

1:21.6

that they want to grow with Bryce Young in the coming years.

1:26.1

So the Panthers wanted to move Adam Thielen.

1:29.4

They want draft capital for the future.

1:31.6

And they end up getting just that.

1:34.1

They also probably didn't want to wait until the trade deadline to move him.

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