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Brian Flores is signed! I do not know if he will eventually get a head coach offer but at least he wont go and be a defensive coordinator for another team. At the very least, the Vikings will get two 3rd round picks if he gets hired away as a head coach. I do not think there will be any dead money.
Now that that is out of the way. What do you want to talk about?
What does his future look like? According to Sports Illustrated’s Grant Cohn, the San Francisco 49ers, whom he covers, want to trade for Addison.
“According to a source, the 49ers intend to be quite aggressive this offseason in terms of trades. They want to trade up in the draft, and they want to trade for a wide receiver. And the wide receiver they’re initially targeting in a trade is Jordan Addison of the Minnesota Vikings,” said Cohn.
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The why behind a possible trade that Cohn mentions is as fascinating as it seems ridiculous.
“Addison is entering year four in the NFL, and the Vikings apparently don’t want to pick up his fifth-year option,” continued Cohn. “They like Jalen Nailor, who’s going to be a free agent wide receiver on their team. They’d like to keep him, and since they’re not going to pick up Jordan Addison’s fifth-year option, they would be open to trading him.”
That in itself is a bombshell. Not picking up the fifth-year option, even though it’s projected to be just over $17.5 million, would be a major surprise. That’s still a value for what Addison does. Having that kind of player opposite Justin Jefferson is huge to maximize the Vikings’ best player.
He also mentioned the Buffalo Bills as a team that is also interested, which would be history repeating itself. In March of 2020, the Vikings traded Stefon Diggs to the Bills for a hefty haul of a first-round pick and multiple picks on Day 3.
Cohn also mentions potential compensation, which is the biggest thing for Vikings fans.
“They probably could get him for like, maybe a second, maybe a third, maybe Ricky Pearsall, maybe, maybe Ricky Pearsall and a fourth?”
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