After losing their big trade down in the first round in 2022 the Vikings front office had to do better this year in any draft weekend trades.
So what did the draft value charts think of the three trades the Vikings made over the draft weekend?
We added up the values
49ers trade
Vikings get: #102, #164, #222
49ers get: #87
- Fitzgerald-Spielberger Chart: Vikings (1334 points) 49ers (737 points)
- Ben Baldwin Chart: Vikings (54) 49ers (41)
- Ourlads Chart: Vikings (120.4 points) 49ers (155 points)
- Jimmy Johnson Chart: Vikings (117.7 points) 49ers (155 points)
- Rich Hill Chart: Vikings (45 points) 49ers (48 points)
Analysis: The Vikings won this trade in just two of the five charts but it was considered a close value swap in all but one charts (Fitzgerald-Spielberger).
Chiefs trade
Vikings get: #134 & 2024 fourth round pick
Chiefs get: #119
- Fitzgerald-Spielberger Chart: Vikings (1059) Chiefs (578)
- Ben Baldwin Chart: Vikings (43) Chiefs (27)
- Ourlads Chart: Vikings (83) Chiefs (56)
- Jimmy Johnson Chart: Vikings (77.5) Chiefs (56)
- Rich Hill Chart: Vikings (34) Chiefs (24)
Analysis: Trading back 15 spots and getting a 2024 fourth pick made the Vikings winners by every chart in this trade.
(Note: Putting value to a future draft pick is always tricky because you don’t know where in that round that pick will be taken. In this instance we gave it the value of the final pick of the fourth round. Considering it’s the Chiefs that’s probably a fair valuation.)
Colts trade:
Vikings get: #141
Colts get: #158, #211
- Fitzgerald-Spielberger Chart: Vikings (492) Colts (722)
- Ben Baldwin Chart: Vikings (21) Colts (23)
- Ourlads Chart: Vikings (35.5) Colts (35.2)
- Jimmy Johnson Chart: Vikings (35.5) Colts (32.4)
- Rich Hill Chart: Vikings (15) Colts (13)
Analysis: Trading up is always a tricky thing to win (unless you somehow move up 20 spots in the first round and somehow don’t give up a future first…) but the Vikings did as good of a job, according to the charts, as they could with this move up of 17 spots.
