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Originally Posted by Eleazar
The $30 million salary for Jefferson doesn't really seem like the issue. He's undoubtedly a more valuable asset than Hill who carries a similar cap number this year. But how are you going to get him with bottom of the first round picks, without gutting the rest of your drafts?
Are the Vikings really going to trade their most valuable asset for a 27 year old corner when they're looking at a need to rebuild?
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I think the ask becomes "What can our picks do to help them move up and get a QB?"
If we offer 2 first rounders but someone else offers a single first rounder at, say, 14 - and they can use that pick plus theirs to get up for a QB they want, they're going to favor the streamlined version.
Let's say you're the Bears with a bunch of cap space and a shiny new Caleb Williams. So you offer Min the 9th overall. And Washington decides this year isn't the year to go after Drake Maye so Min can get them to move down from 2 for the 9 and the 11, isn't that the route you're gonna go?
Meanwhile our poo poo platter of picks, even if it's a pair of 1sts and some 3rds and 2nds on top of it, isn't going to get you up that high. And if you wanted try to package/move/package/move it requires a ton of pieces to fall into place that just might now. So you're left holding your dick at that point.
Put it in the context of what a rebuild for Minnesota looks like. It looks like a top 3 QB throwing to Jordan Addison. We can't help them there, IMO. Not without a whole bunch of help that they just can't be certain they're going to get.