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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

The Vikings trade for Jalen Reagor and the 2021 draft class purge continues

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

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks about the Vikings trading for receiver Jalen Reagor. What are the realistic expectations of where he fits in? Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and Kevin O'Connell are making the roster their own with the last few days, including cutting Armon Watts and acquiring Ross Blacklock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, the Extra Special The Vikings

0:28.6

Traded for Jaylin Rager episode of Purple Insider.

0:32.9

Isn't everybody excited?

0:35.0

Well, you should be, I guess, because trades are exciting.

0:38.5

But this one is, I have to say,

0:41.8

a little bit on the unexpected side that J.

0:45.0

J. L. Rager, who was drafted ahead of Justin Jefferson,

0:49.6

would end up becoming a Minnesota Viking.

0:52.2

But it does make sense on a couple of levels and let's go through those. And also, Amir Smith Marsette, no longer a Viking. Armand and Sean Manion got other jobs, so we'll just get into all these things at once,

1:09.9

but starting with J. L. L. R.

1:11.3

Rager, his last two seasons, he has a total of 64 catches for 695 yards, 10.9 yards per catch, 3 touchdowns,

1:21.0

so there's his basic staleline, all right?

1:23.4

When you go into the analytics numbers for PFF, what you are going to find is that they are not all that

1:30.7

exciting, that they are not going to change your life.

1:33.3

You're not going to say, oh my gosh, the Minnesota Vikings for a conditional fourth that could

1:39.7

become a fifth just robbed Philly blind and got the next great wide receiver.

1:46.0

You're not going to say that.

1:48.0

However, is it worth getting somebody who has played the football before in actual games and made real catches for real yards and show they can kind of do stuff?

2:04.0

The answer is yes, considering where they're at.

2:08.0

So that's what they felt they had in B.C. Johnson.

2:11.0

That if you look at B. at BC Johnson's analytic numbers,

2:14.4

his PFF grades, which Ragers,

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