The Minnesota Vikings made multiple trades in the 2022 NFL draft. In fact, the Vikings didn’t make any of the picks that they entered the draft with.
General manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah came from Wall Street where trading is commonplace and a trade happens every minute. He attacked areas of the draft where he believed there were inefficiencies in the market.
How do draft trades get made? There are multiple draft value charts out there and teams have their own on how they value picks. Jimmie Johnson famounsly created his own value chart when he took over as the head coach for the Dallas Cowboys. That model is outdated, as it wasn’t based on any data.
The best model out there is the Rich Hill trade chart. It’s based on historical data and the values allign closest with how teams value picks.
With both of those things in mind, I identified what it would cost to move up in five different situations.