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VikingsTerritory’s Purple Rumor Mill is a two-day chronicle every week. All of the week’s rumors are lassoed and plopped in two spots — articles on Saturday and Sunday — for overview. At present is the March sixteenth version.
Vikings Rumors: The Sauce Gardner Commerce, Different Commerce Choices, Compensatory Picks
Keep in mind — rumors are rumors. What you learn on weekends in these items is what the world is speaking about pertaining to the Vikings, not essentially gadgets that can come to fruition.
Right here’s the second batch of the week. Yesterday’s could be learn right here.
Rumor: The Vikings have sniffed round a Sauce Gardner commerce.
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Gardner commerce rumors appeared to emerge from an account named “Playmaker Dave,” who boasts a powerful social media accuracy run, predicting occasions like Daniel Jones to the Vikings a couple of months in the past, Davante Adams to the Los Angeles Rams, and Geno Smith to the Las Vegas Raiders, amongst different fulfilled prophecies.
The account tweeted Tuesday, “SOURCE: Minnesota Vikings and New York Jets in discussions for blockbuster trade involving Sauce Gardner’ lots of movement in the last 24 hours and the cap situation makes it all work.’”
Gardner later retweeted a SKOR North video clip on X, after that present afforded an entire section to Gardner commerce rumors. Gardner wrote, “i thought it was a joke this whole time, but y’all were serious all along huh😂.”
We’ve requested round our common sources, and nobody is aware of a lot a couple of Gardner commerce, resulting in the notion that it’s in all probability web fan fiction.
Rumor: Ed Ingram was traded this week. Brian Asamoah or Garrett Bradbury may very well be subsequent.
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Minnesota extracted a Sixth-Rounder from Houston for Ingram, which shocked many as a result of Ingram felt like a roster lower candidate.
If buying and selling Ingram was in play, nicely, something’s doable.
Asamoah and Bradbury are the pure commerce candidates proper now, with a doable facet dish of Blake Brandel if Minnesota signed one other veteran inside offensive lineman like Shaq Mason, Brandon Scherff, Will Hernandez, or Teven Jenkins.
Rumor: Minnesota is already on faucet for a 2026 compensatory decide for Sam Darnold’s free-agent exit.
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Minnesota obtained the very high compensatory decide for Kirk Cousins’ exit final offseason and can spend that capital with the 97th choice in April.
Effectively, the Vikings are in an analogous state of affairs once more this go-round, as Sam Darnold bolted for the Seattle Seahawks this week.
Right here’s the lay of the land this week per 2026 compensatory forecasting:
After simply someday of agreements to contracts, there are already 25 projected common 2026 common compensatory picks on the board.
However there may be far more to return that can change this. pic.twitter.com/B4PZo3BUYf
— Nick Korte (@nickkorte) March 11, 2025
Minnesota seems to be within the driver’s seat to seize at the very least one compensatory decide in 2026 and maybe extra, relying on Daniel Jones’ destiny in Indianapolis — if he wins a starter’s job — and Cam Robinson’s eventual contract.
However you possibly can depend one for Darnold’s free-agent departure. It’s a precise duplicate of Cousins final yr.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his day by day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options visitors, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple group, with 4-7 episodes per week. His MIN 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 carefully because the NFL.
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