Zone Coverage: Arif Hasan's Vikings 2024 Mock Draft 2.0 — Trading Up For A Quarterback?
In my most recent piece for Zone Coverage, I explore the possibility of trading up for a quarterback and how the Vikings might. Like last time, there's a companion video here explaining how I mocked.
I wrote up another Minnesota Vikings 2024 seven-round mock draft, this time exploring the possibility of trading up for a quarterback.
Check out the piece here.
By the traditional trade chart, this would suggest that the Giants paid 240.5 points, or a second-round pick, for Nailor. That seems like a big loss for them. By the more analytically inclined “approximate value”-derived trade chart, the Vikings lost the trade without giving Nailor up, much less with the promising young receiver. They suggest that the Vikings would have struck even if they eliminated the 145th pick from the trade.
The model built by Jason Fitzgerald and Brad Spielberger at OverTheCap, using the value of second contracts for draft picks, suggests that both picks that the Vikings gave up were too much. To them, a better deal would have been giving up a sixth-round pick.
That’s pretty aggressive. I’m comfortable giving up what we did given the value of quarterbacks, especially with the knowledge that the Rich Hill historical trade chart suggests that the Giants paid about the value of a late third-round pick for Nailor.
I also narrated a video of my use of the Pro Football Focus simulator, which you can see below.