A negative development for the Vikings
If the Minnesota Vikings are going to be getting any extra draft help from their tampering situation with the Atlanta Falcons, it looks like it’s going to be the 2025 NFL Draft rather than the one that’s going to take place in a couple of days.
ESPN is reporting, contrary to their report earlier in the week, that the tampering probes that the league is conducting into the conduct of the Atlanta Falcons and the Philadelphia Eagles in the “legal tampering” period of free agency will not be resolved by Thursday, meaning that there won’t be any swapping of picks between the Falcons and the Vikings or anything else that would potentially affect this year’s selection meeting.
There had been speculation that, had the investigation been concluded before the start of this year’s Draft on Thursday, the league might have punished the Falcons by making them engage in some sort of pick swap with the Vikings. That might have alleviated the burden on Vikings’ leadership in an attempt to trade up in Thursday’s first round to select a quarterback. However, that’s not going to happen.
I’m not sure what’s taking so long with this investigation, given that Kirk Cousins openly admitted in a press conference that the Falcons’ training staff contacted him before they were supposed to. But, this is the National Football League, so whatever the reasoning is, you can bet that we won’t know anything about it until well after the fact.
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