TTP: Can Minnesota Vikings find their Aaron Jones successor in NFL Draft?
Purple Daily - A Minnesota Vikings Podcast
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Thor opens up the mailbag to answer questions from listeners ranging from Aaron Jones replacements in the draft, to deep sleepers at certain positions, diving into lesser known player profiles, and much more on the latest Thor Talks Purple!
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| 0:00.0 | The Minnesota Vikings select. |
| 0:04.0 | He's a long time NFL draft expert who's been sweating Vikings football since the Randy Moss era. |
| 0:10.8 | Great cash, all this. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to Thor Talks Purple. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome into Thor Talks Purple. |
| 0:17.5 | Today's Thursday. |
| 0:18.4 | It's an Ask Thor Anything edition of Thor Talks Purple. So we're |
| 0:21.5 | about to open the mailbag. You guys send in some great questions once again, excited to get into it. |
| 0:27.1 | AJ, how are you doing today? I'm doing well. It's a Thursday, which means we are now officially |
| 0:32.9 | two weeks on the dot out from the NFL draft. I know we were talking, we were talking just before going on recording and you're just like, I'm so in the zone. You're, are you, are you sleep deprived? Cause it seems like it seems like you're putting in more work than ever here. And frankly, like it is the first season you're doing draft content primarily with us here at score north. Um, what's the own mailbag will lead it off with what's what's the workload been like how you how |
| 0:58.2 | you hold up uh april april is definitely lock-in month in uh in in in my world um the girlfriend's |
| 1:05.8 | wondering when she's going to see me again but um we're we're we're we're going to get to the finish line. We've been finalizing our |
| 1:13.7 | position rankings, you know, getting ready next week, releasing my, my Thor 500 board with the 500 |
| 1:18.8 | player com. So lots of profiles to get through before we get there. But yeah, it's it's fun. It's a joy |
| 1:25.5 | to do. First question of the day comes with us from Jason Barham, who left the comment on the show yesterday, and he says, asked for anything here. Did you watch tape on Aaron Jones when he was coming out of the draft? If so, where did you have him ranked and what did you think of him? And then I'm going to spin this question of Jason's into a, in this upcoming |
| 1:44.6 | draft for the Vikings, we know that they, there's been reports that they might make a splash with |
| 1:49.1 | like a somewhat early pick on a running back, maybe in, on, uh, in one of those day two picks, |
| 1:53.1 | but is there a Aaron Jones almost 2.0, like an Aaron Jones region, a replacement in this |
| 1:59.2 | draft that you've already identified. |
| 2:04.9 | So I did watch Aaron Jones in college. |
| 2:09.6 | U-TEP, it's one of my favorite stadiums, you know, I'm playing the video game and stuff like that. |
| 2:10.1 | I love the El Paso, like where they have the stadium and they have like the mountains |
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