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In the event you needed the Minnesota Vikings to acquire a 2025 draft decide through commerce as a substitute of a 2026 choice through compensatory reimbursement for Sam Darnold, you could be in luck.
Sam Darnold Commerce Rumors Flip White Sizzling
The Vikings have about two days to franchise tag-and-trade Darnold, the workforce’s QB1 final season, and in line with SportsKeeda‘s Tony Pauline, the Las Vegas Raiders would possibly come calling.
“After losing out on Matthew Stafford, what will the Las Vegas Raiders do next? There are still persistent rumors they may try to trade up for a quarterback in the draft. People close to Sam Darnold tell me that Raiders coach Pete Carroll will work to make a move to acquire the quarterback from the Vikings,” Pauline wrote this weekend.
Carroll coached at USC for 9 seasons within the 2000s. That’s additionally Darnold’s alma mater.
The NFL’s franchise tag deadline is Tuesday, March 4th, so the Vikings completely should apply the tag and commerce Darnold by then if a prepared companion exists.
Pauline continued, “As has been reported elsewhere, Minnesota is seriously considering a tag-and-trade option with Darnold, similar to what the Packers did with Davante Adams just a few years ago before the Raiders acquired the receiver.”
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“Even before all the Stafford and now Darnold rumors to the Raiders started, I heard that the team was seriously considering cutting quarterback Gardner Minshew, who still has guaranteed money in his contract.”
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A tag-and-trade would exhiliriate Vikings followers, primarily as a result of this draft is fairly rattling deep per expertise, and Minnesota has simply 4 picks heading into the occasion — a 1st-Rounder, a soon-to-be compensatory Third-Rounder for Kirk Cousins’ departure final yr, and two Fifth-Rounders. Optimists have maintained hope all offseason that Minnesota may tag-and-trade Darnold, brushing apart Darnold’s two-game collapse that ended the Vikings’ 14-3 season.
What would possibly a Darnold-Raiders commerce appear to be? There are a number of potentialities.
Instance No. 1Vikings Get:— Decide No. 6Raiders Get:— Sam Darnold— Decide No. 24
Instance No. 2Vikings Get:— OG Jordan Meredith— Decide No. 107 (R4)Raiders Get:— Sam Darnold
Instance No. 3Vikings Get:— OG Dylan Parham— Decide No. 107 (R4)Raiders Get:— Sam Darnold
Instance No. 4Vikings Get:— Decide No. 37 (R2)Raiders Get:— Sam Darnold— Decide No. 161 (R5)
Instance No. 5Vikings Get:— Decide No. 68 (R3)— Decide No. 73 (R3)Raiders Get:— Sam Darnold— Decide No. 161 (R5)
Instance No. 6Vikings Get:— DT Christian WilkinsRaiders Get:— Sam Darnold— 2026 Third-Rounder
The Vikings’ management has subtly hinted all offseason that Darnold will seemingly check free company, however the group additionally couldn’t move up an advantageous commerce supply, which the Raiders would possibly ship to nab Darnold earlier than he hits the open market.
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Darnold will flip 28 this summer season.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his each day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options company, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple workforce, with 4-7 episodes per week. His Vikings obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as intently because the NFL.
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