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Vikings’ Huge Draft Plan Takes Shape

Folks were minding their business Friday, and then everything regarding the Minnesota Vikings’ offseason changed. Absolutely changed.

Vikings’ Huge Draft Plan Takes Shape

General manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah pulled off a seismic trade with the Houston Texans, sending two 2nd-Round picks to the Houston Texans for Houston’s 2024 1st-Rounder (Pick No. 23) and a future late-round pick swap.

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Minnesota Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and head coach Kevin O’Connell at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, after a 20-17 win over the Washington Commanders in Week 9 of the 2022 regular season.

This was the deal by the numbers:

Predictably, many ran with a theory that suggested the trade with Houston was just the first of a two-part plan for Minnesota to climb the draftboard further.