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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

How much should the Vikings trade for De'Von Achane?

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and Chris Trapasso of DraftGradebook.com talk about how much in terms of draft capital that they would trade for Miami Dolphins running back De'Von Achane if he became available for trade. Plus they discussion NFL Network's Daniel Jeremiah's most recent mock draft and then talk about the end of the Minnesota Vikings 2022 draft class and Matthew's Pro Football Focus draft simulation that Chris gave an A+ 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, Matthew Collar here.

0:27.1

And on the show today, Chris Trapasso.

0:29.6

All right, Chris, the official draft analyst of Purple Insider and the new draftgradebook.com, which I've been playing with a lot.

0:37.6

Incredible resource.

0:39.2

You can click on any player, get historical comps, get all sorts of scouting reports going

0:44.4

back for many, many years.

0:46.6

It is incredible what you have built.

0:49.0

Just recently launched with draftgradebook.com.

0:52.2

So how about this, Chris?

0:54.0

We got a little news today. Jalen Waddle, former top draft pick, traded to the Denver Broncos. Great move for Denver to acquire him. But, you know, I was thinking, well, Miami's selling everything. They might as well give the Vikings Devon A. Chan. You and I had talked about this. This was rumbling around a little bit.

1:11.5

The combine, we talked about it. Why don't we start out with this, Chris? How much draft capital?

1:16.8

Because they're not accepting players. They want, they want to not win. So they're accepting draft

1:22.5

capital. How much would you give the Miami Dolphins for Devin A. Chan if you are the Minnesota Vikings?

1:30.3

I don't, so this is coming from someone that again, I, and I've said it every year. I'll say it

1:34.7

multiple times. I have a shirt that says don't draft running backs in the first round, which

1:39.2

should indicate just my general thoughts on the positional value. But I think the Vikings would have to factor in, okay, this is probably the worst running

1:47.8

back class that we've had in seven to ten years since that year that what, Bishop Sanky,

1:53.6

like 2015, 2016 was the first running back off the board in the middle of round two.

1:58.5

It's bad.

1:59.2

There's Jeremiah Love and not much else,

2:07.1

especially in terms of the explosive type of running back that you've identified, and I think probably the Vikings coaching staff and front office has IDed as this is the type that we need.

2:12.9

Of course, Devon H.N is one of the most explosive running backs in football. Having said all that and kind of

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