Not great trades, but trades in any event
For those of you who have been following the 2025 SB Nation Community Mock Draft, done by the folks who run all 32 SB Nation NFL sites, you may have noticed that the Minnesota Vikings did not make a selection at #24, instead putting the Houston Texans in that spot.
Well, if you’re waiting for our selection, you’re going to have to wait just a little bit longer.
After making it known to everyone that the 24th pick in the first round was available, I only got a couple of trade offers, but I was able to get a couple of extra selections out of the deal.
The first trade came with the Texans, who offered up a fifth-round pick to move from #25 to #24. I thought it was a bit unusual that they wanted to move up one spot, particularly since they weren’t in the market for a quarterback or anything, but I thought I would take their offer and drop down one.
The other offer, and the one that actually came in first, came from a team that was looking for a quarterback in the New York Giants. They had made an offer about midway through the first round, but we were both holding steady until we saw how the board was falling. When the Vikings got on the clock at #24, I made sure to let our friend Ed Valentine from Big Blue View know that I was going to make the initial deal with Houston to move down one spot and then trade #25 to New York in exchange for a fourth-round selection.
That trade moved the virtual Vikings down to #34 overall, at the top of the second round, and left us with the following selections:
- Round 2, #34 overall (from New York Giants)
- Round 3, #97 overall (compensatory pick)
- Round 4, #105 overall (from New York Giants)
- Round 5, #139 overall (from Cleveland Browns)
- Round 5, #166 overall (from Houston Texans)
- Round 6, #187 overall (from San Francisco 49ers)
Again, the trade downs might not have netted a ton in return, but from most of the point charts out there the deals were relatively even and it gives the Vikings a few more swings at this draft after coming in with fewer picks than any team in the league.
So, we’ll officially be on the board at #34 overall in the second round of this year’s SB Nation Community Mock Draft. The pick is already in the books behind the scenes, but it’s still a few days away from being published, so I can’t spoil it quite yet.
