Should the Vikings take a first-round wide receiver?
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
4.7 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | you heard me chris trapaso draft gradebook dot com uh we're going to draft a receiver |
| 0:11.3 | that was the promise that we made and the last time we did our draft simulation and i feel like |
| 0:16.9 | even a week later our discussion got even even stronger because the Seattle Seahawks |
| 0:22.6 | opened up the bag for Jackson Smith Najigba. |
| 0:26.6 | And I started to see on some of my favorite podcasts that's like, man, maybe you should |
| 0:31.8 | be drafting a wide receiver now that the top guys are making quarterback money. |
| 0:36.2 | Who would have seen it coming other than |
| 0:38.5 | the Chris Trapaso draft show? What is up, my friend? All this is music to my ears. And for the |
| 0:45.0 | faithful, the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of faithful listeners to Purple Insider, |
| 0:50.6 | this should be coming as no surprise that we've been talking about |
| 0:54.6 | wide receiver as the second most important position in the NFL. |
| 0:58.4 | I know edge rushers are right in that upper 30, you know, Miles Garrett's getting |
| 1:02.7 | 40 million a year, but Jackson Smith and Jigba blew the doors off 40 million per year. |
| 1:08.8 | And we talked about it, I think two weeks ago, that difference between the round one |
| 1:13.9 | rookie contract, even a first rounder fully guaranteed deal. |
| 1:17.6 | And the top of the position is seismic. |
| 1:21.0 | So there's that. |
| 1:22.8 | And there is just the way to look at this position at how valuable it is and how the literal general |
| 1:29.4 | managers, not just me and you think of it, look at the price that they are paying the top |
| 1:34.2 | receivers because to have that offensive player of the year type wide receiver is just about |
| 1:39.9 | as important as it gets outside of having that franchise quarterback. So this draft show is going to be dedicated at least a large percentage to the concept of |
| 1:49.1 | the Vikings drafting a wide receiver, the wide receiver class, who their competitors |
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