Insider believes the Vikings will be aggressive at trade deadline, could offer their 2025 first round pick
The Minnesota Vikings are in a very interesting position ahead of the 2024 NFL trade deadline. Sitting at 5-1 on the season, the Vikings have opened their perennial Super Bowl window a year earlier than everyone thought. Having rookie quarterback J.J. McCarthy set to take over for the Vikings next season gives them a lot […]
The Minnesota Vikings are in a very interesting position ahead of the 2024 NFL trade deadline.
Sitting at 5-1 on the season, the Vikings have opened their perennial Super Bowl window a year earlier than everyone thought. Having rookie quarterback J.J. McCarthy set to take over for the Vikings next season gives them a lot of cap flexibility to make a big move for this season and the future.
The future could be now with the Vikings and they seem to be willing to do that.
Vikings are considering trading 2025 first round pick
With the Vikings potentially in a Super Bowl window this season, SKOR North's Darren Wolfson believes they could offer their 2025 first-round pick to improve their team this season and beyond.
"I'm telling you, they are absolutely having discussions. I will be shocked if I hear otherwise. I'm going to believe this that at least have to consider putting that first round pick on the table.
"Here would be the bigger question, because I know you've written about this judge, whether it's a Dexter Lawrence or a Jeffery Simmons, maybe even a Jaycee horn. Do you have to give up the one plus more? And what is more for Lawrence, to me, it's also your 2026, first round pick. I've not heard of that. Well, even on Lawrence, just knowing Andre Patterson, enough, former Vikings defensive line coach, now coaching the defensive line with the New York Giants, he thinks the world of Dexter Lawrence. I'm not suggesting he has, like all sorts of power to veto some sort of trade, but I guess I will be surprised if the Giants move Dexter Lawrence.
"But when hypothetically talking about such a scenario, to me it's two number ones and I don't know if the Vikings are willing to do that, but that 2025 First, yes, I imagine, internally, they're discussing that possibility."
The idea of trading a first-round pick is a big deal. Would it be worth giving up significant draft capital to get a player back this year? As long as it's not a rental and they would be on the team for years (like the T.J. Hockenson trade), it makes a ton of sense.
The Vikings are projected to have around $75 million in salary cap space next season which could absorb a big contract like a Jeffery Simmons will have through the 2027 season.
If the Vikings did make a big move, it could propel them to a Super Bowl run.
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