After making a splash a couple of weeks ago by trading rental defensive end Yannick Ngakoue to Baltimore, there was genuine intrigue to see if the Vikings would jettison more big-name players before Tuesday’s trade deadline.
Much of the discussion focused on likely suspects like Riley Reiff, Anthony Harris and Kyle Rudolph.
As it turned out, of course, nothing else happened. But in retrospect, I wanted to discuss one name that I didn’t see brought up in a meaningful way: QB Kirk Cousins.
There are good reasons for that, of course, but there was also enough material for a thought exercise of sorts on how it wouldn’t have been that bonkers — especially if some peripheral conditions had been different.