Would You Trade Sam LaPorta In This Trade Package?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We'll get to that later, Wings in Philly tonight, and I'm going to try to offer a message of optimism, |
| 0:05.6 | question mark. Kenny, I laid out NFL.com's win-win trade for the Lions. I know. It's not happening, |
| 0:12.2 | but it's really more of an exercise in we on this day part have said between Gibbs, Campbell, |
| 0:19.3 | LaPorteur, Branch, I'm not keeping all four. |
| 0:23.0 | And the only one I'd keep for certain right now is Jack Campbell. |
| 0:27.3 | You know, Jemir Gibbs, I have three years, two on base, plus a third year with the franchise |
| 0:32.2 | tag. By the time that happens, make a decision then if I want to sign him. But if you want to |
| 0:36.8 | say you're keeping Gibbs and Campbell, that's fine. If Brian Branch shows me he's still Brian Branch, he's infinitely |
| 0:42.6 | more valuable than Sam Leporta. Leporta to the commanders with pick 17, and you get back, |
| 0:50.2 | pick seven, a third rounder next year, and Ben Sinit, who's one of their backup tight ends. |
| 0:56.2 | He was good at K-State, man. |
| 0:57.5 | He used to line them up at fullback, run a bunch of screens, kind of an H-back more than a |
| 1:00.8 | tight end. |
| 1:01.4 | The point is, that premium pick for a Lions team that is closer to a Super Bowl than |
| 1:08.1 | finishing bottom seven in the league? |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, I would do it because I have no interest in paying Sam. |
| 1:14.3 | And guess what? |
| 1:19.0 | You guys are the one who started throwing dollars around the strip club like James Harden after a game seven. |
| 1:20.1 | Here's all my picks to take another wide receiver. |
| 1:25.0 | Okay, let's go. |
| 1:26.8 | If that trade actually goes down, I could almost forgive this whole free agency. |
| 1:33.5 | Oh, my. |
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