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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

FANTASY SHOW: Will the Vikings lean into Jordan Mason?

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Football, Sports, Nfl Draft, Nfl, Vikings, Nfl Team, Minnesota

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Mike Schopp of ADP Chasing and WGR 550 in Buffalo joins for this week's Fantasy Show to discuss whether the Vikings will lean on the run game against the Chargers. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider 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 Fandul, and we were not going to skimp out on the Purple Insider Fantasy Shope with Mike Shope, WGR 550 and ADP chasing, our resident fantasy expert.

0:21.6

And we got some fun here because we're going to be able to go through all of the props for this game and preview Vikings and Chargers as well as talk about things around the league.

0:32.9

I'm just curious, the broad question before we get into some of these props and everything else, Mike.

0:42.5

What is the number one discussion going on right now in the fantasy world?

0:49.8

Like you, you are really like in that space with all of the greatest experts on Earth in the fantasy world.

0:56.7

Kyle Pitts used to be the main discussion, but what is it so far through six or seven weeks here?

1:02.6

Man, I don't know what number one is, but in terms of a player, since you mentioned Pitts,

1:07.4

I think Saquan Barkley is a pretty good one right now, and you just saw him.

1:09.6

We have Derek Henry, too.

1:12.5

We've talked about how after a season in 2024 where if you faded old running backs because you read all the, you saw all the charts

1:18.6

and you read all the articles and you knew like, you know, there's an age cliff or a number

1:22.7

of touches, 1500 touches, different things. And then you ended up looking at your bank account at the end of the season and it was

1:30.6

empty because we lost to all those guys.

1:33.5

We lost to Jacobs.

1:34.4

We lost to Camara.

1:35.4

We lost to Connor.

1:36.5

We lost to mix in, you know, the same names.

1:40.3

Now we'll see what happens with Henry or even Barclay.

1:43.7

But I'd like your take on this.

1:46.1

There is a conversation happening about whether he's washed.

1:51.4

And, you know, the heavy workload last year, the age, he's had injuries.

1:56.2

For Philadelphia, not to be able to run the ball efficiently is really stark.

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