Another late-night trade to pass along. ESPN’s Field Yates reported (via Twitter) that the Vikings and Saints made the following swap:
Saints acquire:
- No. 105
Vikings acquire
- No. 130
- No. 169
- No. 203
- No. 244
New Orleans used the third round’s penultimate pick on Dayton tight end Adam Trautman.
Barring a trade, that could be the Saints’ final pick of the weekend; after drafting three players through the first three rounds, New Orleans is now tapped out of picks. As NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero tweets, this could be the first time the Saints come away with three or fewer draft picks since 1999, when they traded that infamous haul for Ricky Williams.
On the flip side, after making four selections through the first three rounds, the Vikings still have 13 picks remaining. The team could certainly make a handful of trades, but Pelissero tweets that Minny is approaching history. The most picks by a team in the seven-round draft era is 14 by the 1997 Jets and 2016 Browns. The 1968 Bengals selected 17 players in the first seven rounds of the 17-round draft.
The 1997 Jets went 9-7, the 2016 Browns went 1-15 and the 1968 Bengals went 3-11. Lot of draft capital spent but not much in the way of returns.
Damn. Minny has 13 picks today. Wish I was a Vikings fan solely for entertainment
The Dolphins has 14 picks in 1997, not the Jets (who had 11).