ESPN NEWS: Deal don The Minnesota Vikings have traded a super QB Josh Allen from Buffalo bills today.

General manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah stated, “We have the flexibility to go either way when we enter this draft.

The middle ground the Vikings are operating in is the hunt for a complicit team willing to help facilitate a trade up in the draft, and the requirement for flexibility to react if they don’t find one. With the better of their two first-round picks at No. 11 overall, they almost likely can’t draft LSU’s Jayden Daniels, North Carolina’s Drake Maye, Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy, or even USC’s Caleb Williams, no matter how much they might want to.

Furthermore, the league meeting last week helped illustrate the competitiveness they’ll have even in the event that they locate willing trading partners. One coach, Sean Payton of the Denver Broncos, stated last week that he thinks it’s “realistic” to move up from his team’s No. 12 ranking in order to get a replacement for Russell Wilson.