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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

ESPN's proposed Vikings draft trades are.... interesting?!!?!

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

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and Chris Trapasso analyze a bunch of Minnesota Vikings NFL Draft day trades proposed by ESPN's Bill Barnwell. Plus they talk about De'Von Achane's potential availability and analyze Peter Schrager's mock draft that has the Vikings taking a different defensive back than expected. 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

All right, Chris Trapasso.

0:07.5

What is going on, my friend?

0:08.9

We are only a couple of weeks away from the NFL draft.

0:14.2

And I admitted to you off the air and I'll tell everybody else.

0:17.3

I'm sorry to crack a little.

0:18.7

It happens every year where the dialogue just reaches a point where we've sort of run out of stuff to talk about. And then it's, you know, last week is Ty Simpson really the best quarterback in the draft? And then it's, you know, a lot of other things and the mocks are flowing and everything else. It's like, okay, okay, I need to get there. I need to get there. But we still have some stuff to talk about, including should the Minnesota Vikings approach

0:43.7

this draft with trades in mind. So that is what we are going to talk about. I have three trades

0:50.7

that have been proposed by ESPN's Bill Barnwell that we're going to break down.

0:55.2

Are they good ideas?

0:56.2

Are they not good ideas?

0:57.6

But I also want to begin in a place that you and I discussed a little bit at the NFL

1:02.6

Combine when there was a Devin A-chan rumor.

1:05.5

He did not show up to his team's voluntary workouts, which may be a little bit of an

1:10.2

indication where they stand.

1:11.9

Also, Dexter Lawrence did not show up to their workouts.

1:16.7

And ESPN's Adam Schaefter has reported that Dexter Lawrence wants to be traded.

1:21.8

So should the Vikings have any interest in using their little pile of draft capital to try to acquire either

1:30.6

one of those players? I would say no. They're both really, really good. I mean, A. Chan, you could

1:38.1

maybe convince me, and that is someone that is normally like just draft a running back in the

1:41.9

fourth or fifth round every year. But the Frank Smith connection that you've talked about is very compelling.

1:47.4

The need for explosiveness out of the back field is something that this team has not really had since Delvin Cook.

1:53.9

I mean, Aaron Jones a little bit last season, but not Aaron Jones at 24, 25 years old when he was in Green Bay.

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