A hot topic among Vikings Twitter is whether or not we should trade for Washington’s LT Trent Williams who had voiced his frustrations about the organization, after the first round last night a lot of the teams in contention for Williams went ahead and drafted OT…except for your Minnesota Vikings. After trading back and gather some more draft capital, many think that a move could be made
feel very much in the race to land the left tackle. They have the draft capital to do it, with 12 picks for Days 2/3. But there are still a couple unknowns. Many of you have sent me questions about how the Vikings can afford Williams? Yes, they'd have to make space for him on the
— Courtney Cronin (@CourtneyRCronin) April 24, 2020
at safety, so he might be off the table. The question remains: will Williams play on his current contract where he's set to earn $12.5 million in 2020? If WAS doesn't feel like they're getting adequate compensation for a 7x Pro Bowler, they could let this drag out longer.
— Courtney Cronin (@CourtneyRCronin) April 24, 2020
With that info it sounds like a the Vikings could go either way on a Trent Williams trade. They could be aggressive in trading draft capital, or they could trade up for a rookie OT.
Myles Gorham, Flipmazzi, and I went ahead and discussed on Twitter how we feel about a potential Trent Williams trade to the Minnesota Vikings
Ok sure. How many more years does Trent Williams have left at his elite level?
— Flipmazzi 🏈 (@Flipmazzi) April 24, 2020
What does his contract extension look like to fit that timeframe?
— Flipmazzi 🏈 (@Flipmazzi) April 24, 2020
Do you plan to extend Brian O’Neill early? If so, how much are you giving him?
— Flipmazzi 🏈 (@Flipmazzi) April 24, 2020
I’m sure they will next offseason so a similar contract but prob 4 years 54M.
And I get it. You ideally don’t want a lot of money tied up in two tackles, but when you have a chance to add a player of Williams caliber i think you do it. Cap will work itself out
— Matt Anderson (@MattAndersonNFL) April 24, 2020
$4.4M dead cap hit if you cut him now. Or you trade him. Or keep him one year slide into G cut him next year for only $2.2M dead cap
— Matt Anderson (@MattAndersonNFL) April 24, 2020
*get Trent and cut Reiff now: $19M cap hit for a team with $12M in cap.
Then you have to look at trading Ant…so it’s then:
Get: Williams
Lose: Reiff & HarrisYeah I prefer to spend those picks trading up for a rookie LT.
— Flipmazzi 🏈 (@Flipmazzi) April 24, 2020
Can you do math? Backloading the Williams extension does nothing for 2020.
Your solution has both Reiff and Harris out the door. At least in mine I keep Ant for 2020.
— Flipmazzi 🏈 (@Flipmazzi) April 24, 2020
Lowering to what number?
— Flipmazzi 🏈 (@Flipmazzi) April 24, 2020
What would make you happy Flip, how would you solve this LT situation?
— Matt Anderson (@MattAndersonNFL) April 24, 2020
Trade for Williams
Sign to an extension to lower cap hit
Slide Reiff inside
Draft an iOL to compete with Elflien, Samia at RGProsper 🙌🏼
— Matt Anderson (@MattAndersonNFL) April 24, 2020
For sure. Your Williams plan works too.
But I would like Elflein as a backup and more cap space. They’re too tight right now.
I would love the Williams trade idea if they get a long term deal with Ant.
*whispers* and if they didn’t drop $9M on Pierce.— Flipmazzi 🏈 (@Flipmazzi) April 24, 2020
Regardless though, we should be hyped about how all this has unfolded and whether its a Rookie OT or Trent Williams, things are looking up. A lot better than where we were a month ago
— Matt Anderson (@MattAndersonNFL) April 24, 2020
What do you all think? Would you be okay with the Vikings giving up draft capital to trade for Trent Williams, knowing the his contract would cost a lot.
Or would you prefer to use that draft capital to trade up in the draft and get a rookie OT?
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