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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Chris Trapasso grades the Minnesota Vikings' draft

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

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and Chris Trapasso of DraftGradebook.com talk about Chris's grade on the Minnesota Vikings' draft. Why he liked Caleb Banks as a player, his fit for Jake Golday and the late-round pick he's most intrigued by. 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 Fanduil.

0:10.4

Matthew Collar here.

0:11.4

And it is the final Chris Trappaso draft show of draft season.

0:16.9

But it's one we look forward to every year where we actually have the draft picks and we go one by one and get your big time breakdown grade analysis and everything else.

0:27.9

Chris, the final word basically on these draft picks. And then they're Minnesota Vikings and we start covering them at OTAs and media.

0:35.9

And what do you call them?

0:37.5

Many camps and training camps and then football games and so forth.

0:41.3

So why don't we just begin with the big picture here?

0:46.8

I've noticed that the draft universe is not super thrilled with the way that the Minnesota

0:53.5

Vikings picked.

0:55.3

So how were your grades in the whole?

0:58.5

And then we can go one by one versus what a lot of the other draft analysts were giving

1:04.7

the Vikings.

1:05.5

So what I did at draftgradebook.com is I just used a weighted system based on the Jimmy Johnson trade

1:14.2

chart, which ironically that one still holds up pretty well all these years later.

1:18.7

Or it's at least the one that I think a fair amount of GM still referenced when they're making

1:25.1

trades. And I just went to, I gave leeway to my NFL draft grade

1:32.3

system where like if I had a player at like 36 and he was like the 45th pick I didn't mark that as a monster steal and give it an A plus. So there was some tinkering that I

1:44.7

needed to do on that system side of things. And the Vikings, where is it? The Vikings were not

1:52.0

necessarily super high. They came out, I think, C minus. I cannot pull up my page now. I just had

1:58.1

it. It was not a terribly brutal class overall, but as we'll get into,

2:05.9

there was a few reaches that I think were pretty sizable that needed nuance. And I think what's

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