I just read a headline on social media. Now is the time to trade for life.

I just read a headline on social media. Now is the time to trade for Lacquon Treadwell and I disagree with that position.

I disagree with that position because Lacquon Treadwell is over in Minnesota.

It's never going to happen for him in Minnesota because

Minnesota now has the best wide receiver duo in the NFL.

Go down the list of rosters across the NFL. You are not going to find a better duo than

Stephen Diggs and Adam Theland. Because for you to buy Lequon Treadwell, you have to necessarily

believe that either Stephen Diggs or Adam Thielen is not for real, that

Laquon Treadwell has the potential to supplant either one of those players and become a starting wide receiver.

Otherwise, you're trading for a number three option in Minnesota.

Minnesota wants to be a running team.

They have one of the top five run blocking units. I mean it's been an amazing

turnaround story for the Minnesota Vikings to go from the number 32 ranked

offensive line in 2016 to the number four ranked run blocking unit in 2017 and you can go to

player profiler dot com go to jerich McKinnon's page go to Dalvin cooks

page you can see run blocking efficiency it looks at yards blocked per carry and adds a bonus

discount factor for any stuffed runs so if the run play is getting blown up in the back field or the running back is stuffed at the line of scrimmage, we punish the offensive line for those plays. Above and beyond merely giving them a zero for yards blocked. That's our run blocking

efficiency grade. There are a lot more complex formulas out there for calculating

run blocking efficiency but it's a simple and elegant metric, and I love it.

And when you go to data analysis, Player profiler.com, forward slash data-analysis, and you scroll

through all the team run blocking efficiency grades, you see that the

see that the metric is intuitive.

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