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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks with NFL Draft analyst Chris Trapasso about whether the Minnesota Vikings should draft a wide receiver in the first round. They analyze every receiver that could be available including Mekhi Lemon, David Boston, KC Concepcion and other top names. They also discuss Jordan Addison's future and the latest talk about Ty Simpson and Fernando Mendoza 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

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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