Triplethreat
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The only potential marriage of both would seem to be Minnesota, which is pretty interesting given Stefanski's familiarity with those players.
It sounds like the Vikes desperately want cap space, so there may be an opportunity, if the FO wants it, to plug several holes in a multi player trade.
It does, however, seem more counterintuitive to how the FO has operated. Next year is probably the year you forgo draft capital to chase hole plugging vets but maybe the org feels better about this team than I think.
With the Browns cap situation, I would imagine Minnesota would now be angling to unload someone like Theilen as part of a deal for defensive help. That is potentially the one unfortunate aspect of the OBJ inury, is that a team like Minnesota is now going to try to likely use that as a leverage point in negotiations for any of the defensive players we may have been interested in.
Would Thielen be that bad?
He has an out in his contract for 5.4 million in dead cap next year. That's not horrible. He's familiar with the offensive concepts too.
I'm just spitballing here because I know something like this is insanely unlikely.