J.Greenard

[MaroonBells]

Building the roster through trades & free agency is unsustainable long term. It'll work as long as you have your QB on a rookie contract. But once you have to sign your QB to a market rate contract, you need the cheaper rookie contracts that draft picks afford you to fill out your roster.

It obviously has to be a combination of both. But if I'm in charge and I decide, for example, the Vikings need CB, DT, RB and RG, I'm probably going to use free agency for the more impactful positions like CB and DT and the draft for the others. I think we've drafted enough busts in the secondary to have learned a lesson....I hope. Get guys who've already proven they can play in the NFL for those positions: DJ Reed or Charvarius Ward at CB, maybe Milton Williams at DT. Then use the draft to take a RB and a RG. I think with big contracts going to that side of the ball with Darrisaw, O'Neill, Jefferson, Hockenson, etc, the offense is where we'll need the cheaper players.

[Montana Tom]

I think that this season's FA class has more than made up for whiffing on the 2022 draft.

That fiasco reminds me of a quote from Jalen Hurts after a particularly bad game he had a couple years ago...I'll paraphrase: "when you drop a deuce in the toilet, you don't just stare at it. You flush it and move on"

[JimmyinSD]

It obviously has to be a combination of both. But if I'm in charge and I decide, for example, the Vikings need CB, DT, RB and RG, I'm probably going to use free agency for the more impactful positions like CB and DT and the draft for the others. I think we've drafted enough busts in the secondary to have learned a lesson....I hope. Get guys who've already proven they can play in the NFL for those positions: DJ Reed or Charvarius Ward at CB, maybe Milton Williams at DT. Then use the draft to take a RB and a RG. I think with big contracts going to that side of the ball with Darrisaw, O'Neill, Jefferson, Hockenson, etc, the offense is where we'll need the cheaper players.

I think you need to put IOL into that class with CB busts,  better grab that OG in FA as well.