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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Star Tribune's Andrew Krammer breaks down Vikings draft, GM future

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller is joined by the Minnesota Star Tribune's Andrew Krammer to break down the Vikings' draft. Plus, a discussion on who the next GM will be, with that decision now looming with the draft wrapped up. 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

All right, Andrew Kramer of the Star Tribune.

0:09.0

Let's just start out with this, Andrew.

0:11.4

Where'd you stand on Caleb Banks?

0:13.4

Why don't we just begin there?

0:14.6

And then we'll just dive into everything else of the Vikings draft.

0:17.4

But the most interesting thing they did was on day one, the thing that the draft

0:22.1

analysts are discussing and the consensus board people are fighting on the internet over.

0:27.6

He was one of those reaches, if you will.

0:30.7

So what was your sense of the decision to go with, I think, one of the more risky picks

0:36.3

in the 2026 amateur NFL draft.

0:40.8

Yeah, this pick obviously was a surprise to me, much like it was everybody else.

0:45.5

You know, it's a guy that's ranked like 50 first on Daniel Jeremiah's final 150.

0:50.4

And yeah, even he was saying that there might not be any first round defensive tackles taken.

0:55.2

And so if you take the Vikings at their word that they were taking their best player available,

1:00.0

which is always a murky thing because they're going to have them all, you know,

1:02.9

horizontally stacked.

1:04.6

But if you take them at their word, then they really must have viewed this draft as not having

1:08.4

much top power, you know, much of a hierarchy at the top,

1:12.3

much like the discussion was for months leading up to this. If this was a bad draft, there

1:16.9

might not even be 32 first round grades for many of these teams on these guys. And if that's the case,

1:22.3

if the Vikings viewed it that way and he truly was the best player, then boy, there weren't

1:26.5

many sure things that

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