Tyler Forness discusses the Minnesota Vikings corresponding internal moves after the first wave of free agency.
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00The inevitable has happened. The Minnesota Vikings have moved on from one of their draft
00:04picks under Quacio Flomenza and the trenches are going to look a lot different this year.
00:12The Minnesota Vikings moved on from Ed Ingram on Thursday afternoon, trading him to the Houston
00:17Texans. Yes, they were able to trade Ed Ingram and they got a 2026 sixth round pick. That's quite the
00:25haul for Ingram, who started the first 41 games of his career, but unfortunately ended up losing
00:32his job to Dalton Reisner. Now, was that the right decision? Those of you that know me say no,
00:37that I don't believe it was. I think Ingram should have been the starter and I think Reisner was not
00:42very good and they were different though. They played completely different games, which is why
00:47there was such a divide on that topic. Now, Ingram with the trade, he will save the Vikings 3.4
00:54million dollars on this sour cap, which is huge, but it is unfortunate that Quacio Flomenza's
01:01drafting has taken another hit. There are only three players left from that 10 selection 2022
01:07NFL draft class. Third rounder Brian Asamoah, fifth rounder Ty Chandler, and sixth rounder Jalen
01:12Naylor. Ingram was the most prolific of all of them as far as successes and success is a very
01:19interesting word to use because look, let's just be real. Ingram allowed a lot of pressures. He
01:26allowed the most pressures in the 2022 season. Then he shrunk that number down by 33 percent
01:35and allowed less than that at 42 in the 2024 season, excuse me. And then 2024, he had allowed
01:4326 before Dalton Reisner took over after the 10th game of the season against the Jacksonville
01:50Jaguars, excuse me, the ninth. So Reisner started the final eight games and those things are
01:56frustrating. You would have liked your second round guard to end up working out, but it didn't.
02:02And then we move inside to center Garrett Bradbury. He is going to either be traded or released
02:08with the signing of Ryan Kelly. There was some maybe discussion about moving him to guard
02:12because, hey, he did play guard for a couple of years at NC State while he was in college,
02:16but we are so far removed from that. They didn't believe it made sense. And who can blame them?
02:22Bradbury is biggest factor. He can't anchor and not being able to anchor is a huge factor
02:29in not being able to really play the center position as well as everybody would have hoped
02:33he could. And look, if the Vikings get a sixth rounder for an interim, they should be able to
02:37get that for Garrett Bradbury, especially when teams are on wide zone schemes like the Seattle
02:42Seahawks who were just transitioning to it, like the Atlanta Falcons who just lost Drew
02:47Dolman and did not tender their restricted free agent center. Will they be able to get a deal
02:52done? Who knows? But the trenches don't feel like a problem anymore for the Minnesota Vikings. And
02:57oh my goodness, that is wild. I'm Tyler Furnas with ADC Sports. Skol Vikings.