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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Let's analyze Vikings draft woes with Chris Trapasso

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

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Chris Trapasso joins the show to analyze where things have gone wrong for the Vikings in the draft over the past handful of years. Then, Maggie Robinson joins for the Robinson Roundup. 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 Fanduel.

0:10.2

Matthew Collar here.

0:11.3

And look who it is, Chris Trapaso, who has moved over to the TikTok world.

0:16.7

So make sure you go check out his analysis every week there, breaking down the National Football League.

0:22.9

Chris, for many years, you have been the official draft analyst of the Purple Insider Show.

0:29.5

We have reached a point where the Minnesota Vikings are struggling.

0:33.9

They are three and four.

0:35.3

And when we look across the roster, the roster build a lot of

0:39.1

the decisions that they have made have not played out like they thought, especially in the

0:44.4

positions where they have tried to cover up for either not having draft capital or missing on

0:50.2

draft. So what we're going to do is deep dive into what has happened roster wise, of course,

0:57.1

but also mainly with these drafts and look at the process and the results, what happened and how

1:05.4

we got here. This is not reflective of a lot of our conversations in the off season, Chris, where I think both of us thought this was going to work.

1:13.5

But I think we want to work backward and we'll get to the 2022 draft because we know

1:19.3

that that one was an epic disaster.

1:22.4

But as of right now, the draft from this year, they only took a handful of players and they have overall

1:32.9

Donovan Jackson has been starting, but that's really it from this draft class. And I think that

1:38.5

this draft as they just lost Kobe King, they released him and he was picked up by the New York Jets.

1:44.9

I think this draft says a lot about their overall draft philosophy because they have no

1:49.5

picks and they have not been stacking up comps like some teams.

1:54.6

They haven't been selling off parts at deadlines.

1:57.5

Instead, they've been a buyer time and time again because they've been competitive and

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