{"id":480322,"date":"2024-03-15T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480322"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:07:08","slug":"vikings-secure-2nd-1st-round-selection-in-trade","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vikings-secure-2nd-1st-round-selection-in-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings secure 2nd 1st-round selection in trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings received the Houston Texans&#8217; 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round selection today in an exchange that could be a precursor to moving further up the round to pick a QB to take the place of Kirk Cousins, who left the franchise in the offseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS: The Vikings are acquiring a second first-round pick for the 2024 NFL Draft, league sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DMRussini?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DMRussini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota will send two second-round picks, along with a late pick swap, to the Houston Texans in exchange for the No. 23 overall pick.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4KvECf6HZL\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/4KvECf6HZL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p7jsdL0Pnf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/p7jsdL0Pnf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1768644352849637435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the trade, Minnesota got Houston\u2019s 23<sup>rd<\/sup>-overall selection along with a 7<sup>th<\/sup>-round selection. Houston acquired Minnesota\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round selection, their 6<sup>th<\/sup>-round selection, and their 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round selection for next year.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange preserved Minnesota\u2019s own 1st-round selection, 11th overall, which they could, in theory, trade with the number 23 selection to receive a higher selection.<\/p>\n<p>Vikings GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah shared yesterday that Kirk\u2019s leaving the team did not necessarily mean that the franchise will select a QB in the 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round in the upcoming NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota has inked free agent Sam Darnold to a 1-year, 10 million dollar deal as a potential bridge starter in the upcoming campaign, and the general manager revealed that the organization had the &#8220;flexibility to go either way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings received the Houston Texans&#8217; 1st-round selection today in an exchange that could be a precursor to moving further up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480323,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17167,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18175,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Minnesota acquired the 2nd first-round pick in a trade with the Texans.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480325,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480322\/revisions\/480325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480322"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480322"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}