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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Trevor Sikkema was shocked by Caleb Banks pick but...

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

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Trevor Sikkema of the NFL Stock Exchange podcast joins Matthew Coller to talk about the Minnesota Vikings' decision to draft Caleb Banks. Why it surprised him but how he can see the potential upside. Plus why he loved two specific picks the most for the Vikings and teams that changed their fate in the NFC with the draft. 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, welcome back to the show.

0:08.0

Trevor Sykima, the NFL Stock Exchange podcast.

0:11.8

Absolutely crushed your NFL draft coverage, Trevor.

0:16.6

Love to see the success of the NFL Stock Exchange podcast.

0:20.5

If you folks followed Trevor with PFF and you have not gone over and started listening

0:25.2

to the stock exchange, please do so as soon as possible.

0:29.3

Trevor, why don't we just start out with this?

0:31.8

What do you think of the Vikings draft?

0:33.7

You guys did a huge, huge show grading all the drafts because you're lunatics. You graded

0:39.6

32 drafts. What did you guys, what did you guys land on with the Vikings? Because the graders

0:45.4

were not pleased by this Vikings draft overall. So I gave the Vikings grade a C plus. And there's, I think, pros and cons with how they kind of went about this.

0:58.2

The Caleb Banks pick at 18, I was so shocked by, especially with Dylan Thineman,

1:03.6

who was, I think, the most mocked player to a certain team outside of Fernando

1:07.3

Mendoza, maybe a baby player in the draft class.

1:12.6

He's on the board. You don't take him. You take a player in Caleb Banks instead. And obviously, I'm sure that you guys have covered

1:18.2

this ad nauseum after the fact. It's a massive home run hit, right? You are taking a swing for the

1:23.3

fences. You are up in that bat speed. You are arching the back a little bit more as that

1:27.9

fastball is coming in. And you are saying, I am striking out here or I am hitting a 500

1:32.7

foot dinger. It's probably one of those two options. And for the Viking specifically,

1:38.8

having a desire to get more aggressive, more talented, faster on their interior defensive line, I can understand

1:45.2

how they ended up at this point.

1:47.2

Because what Brian Flores is all about is pressure from everywhere, right?

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