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Jalen Nailor health update via ESPN, Thielen takes pay cut (Part 2)

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

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks about the news from ESPN's Jeremy Fowler that the Vikings are optimistic about Jalen Nailor and the re-working of Adam Thielen's contract. Plus Maggie Robinson talks with NFL rules analyst Walt Anderson. 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

Jay says Felton is a skinny rookie needs more weight and experience.

0:09.7

Yeah, that's why right now you feel pretty good about having Naylor ahead of him because

0:14.0

if Felton had to be in there, that would be pretty tough for him to take on a bigger role.

0:19.4

And I would guess it would have to be a lot of

0:21.7

Josh Oliver. Chris says Thielen will be a big, will be big in Felton's development. Great

0:29.2

player to help with the route running tree. Yep, I agree with that. Red said Lucky had his chance

0:34.0

to overtake Nailer and he dropped it. He did, but I don't think that

0:38.4

Lucky Jackson was ever going to be the guy that they went to instead of Adam Thielen, or even

0:43.9

instead of Jalen Naylor. It was, this guy is the, in case of emergency. Like, that was the situation

0:51.1

for Lucky Jackson. And then they kind of got into a bit of an emergency and it was the situation for Lucky Jackson.

0:54.3

And then they kind of got into a bit of an emergency.

0:57.7

And it was, they were going to acquire somebody.

0:59.9

It was going to be Kendrick Bourne.

1:01.6

It was going to be somebody off waivers, Valdez, Scantling, whoever.

1:04.7

They weren't going to go with Lucky Jackson.

1:06.6

He is the break glass in case of emergency guy to be bumped up because he's good enough to be out there in practice and running the right routes and probably not good enough to play on a week-to-week basis in the NFL.

1:20.7

It's a hard place to be.

1:22.4

And as you heard my interview from him, Lucky Jackson, really bright dude, crazy story of working his way here,

1:29.3

and you'd love to see a guy like that succeed. It's just when the expectations are what they are,

1:34.8

you have to make moves like this to get feeling. You have to hope that Naylor takes another step.

1:39.9

You can't kind of, hey, we're going to go with this guy who's completely unproven.

1:45.4

Kit says, do you think Felton could have it click like Jefferson did a few weeks into the

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