The Vikings' trade of Mike Hughes to Kansas City on Thursday was, in essence, a marginal transaction — with the Vikings shedding $1.8 million in cap space and giving up on a player for whom they hadn't exercised their fifth-year option while also dealing away a seventh-round pick and getting a sixth-rounder.
But it also cemented a stretch in which the Vikings struggled to get major impact from the first round of the draft, which has ongoing consequences on their roster — something I talked about at the end of Friday's Daily Delivery podcast.