Vikings Linked to Potential Blockbuster Trade With AFC Squad for QB

The talk around the Minnesota Vikings’ plans at quarterback is heating up and they could be thinking about a trade.

For starters, Kirk Cousins looking healthy doing non-football activities and making the media rounds at the Super Bowl. But the Vikings’ plans outside of that are also buzzing.

“The Nationalists likewise need a quarterback, yet there are individuals around the association who accept they are available to exchanging the No. 3 determination,” ESPN’s Dan Graziano composed on February 10. ” The Falcons and the Vikings are the two teams I’d keep an eye on.

Graziano takes note of the Vikings’ choice probably depends on whether Cousins returns in 2024.

That could be the reason they have not exclusively been connected to an expected exchange to climb in the draft however they are likewise reputed to have their sights set on an objective: LSU’s Heisman-winning passer Jayden Daniels.

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“Minnesota realizes it at last needs to address the quarterback position long haul,” Graziano composed. ” The thought of acquiring Daniels to coordinate with their star LSU alum wideout Justin Jefferson has appeal to some in the association.”

Regardless of whether Cousins return, however, he will be 36 by the beginning of the time. He is likewise falling off a torn Achilles and has posted a triumphant record in only one of the last four seasons.

Jefferson is quite heading into the last year of his agreement.

Justin Jeffson’s Effect on Vikings QB Choice.

Fox Sports 1’s Colin Cowherd drifted exchanging Jefferson to the Loyalists a blockbuster proposition. It would likewise incorporate the Vikings’ 2024 first-round pick. That extra pick will probably still be remembered for any proposals to take a stab at climbing.

In any case, the Vikings seem to favor matching Jefferson with Daniels which likewise needs to factor into their arrangements for Cousins.

He has repeatedly stated that he desires Cousins’ return. Yet, he additionally clarified that he will be useful paying little mind to who is under focus.

“It very well may be Kirk, it couldn’t be Kirk,” Jefferson said, per NFL.com’s Award Gordon on February 8. ” I don’t know, but you can be sure that I’ll be the same kind of player no matter who throws me that ball.

Jefferson likewise said that he is hoping to “burn through every last cent” on his next agreement.

Securing Cousins in on the kind of arrangement he is supposed to order – north of $39 million yearly over the course of the following a few years — would gobble up a huge piece of the cap.

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This will be Senior supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah’s third time running the Vikings’ draft room. There is a developing feeling of strain around it, per Adofo-Mensah himself.

“I put that squeeze on myself each offseason, however I consider it’s the highest level of significance,” Adofo-Mensah said, per the Star Tribune’s Ben Goessling on January 10. ” To say [it will influence us] five to eight to 10 years presumably relies upon what positions you address, yet it’s a significant offseason. I really have no way to escape that in any way.

With choices and a reasonable need to sort out the quarterback position long haul, the Vikings may at last find their exchange accomplice to get into position for him — be it Daniels etc. — in the Nationalists.