Were these possible trade targets?

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@Tyr said:
 The 3rd round is where the draft went a bit south for me, so I guess we'll need to see if Dantzler & trading down was the right move, or if they would have been better off giving up more.

I think it went wrong sooner - the end of round 1. I like Gladney, but I think there were several CBs pretty close to him (Diggs, Johnson, Fulton), and zone coverage needs quantity at DB as much as quality.
It was supposedly impossible to trade up from a late 3rd rounder to a high 3rd rounder. So maybe they should have been looking to trade down from round 1 pick #31. Could they have swapped that - or just the #25 -  to a team for early 2nd and 3rd round picks, maybe with the late 3rd added? So, we would have Diggs and Madubuike, or Fulton and Gallimore, instead of just Gladney.

But I think they saw Arnette and Igbinoghene picked and feared a run on CBs was starting. It did not for another 20 picks. Hard to know when that will unfold, but I feel they overvalued CB for this defense.

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@"Geoff Nichols" said:
They tried to go up in round 3 to get either Okwara or Madubuike but pivoted to Gallimore once those two were off the board. The prices to get up were outrageous per source. So although they weren't able to get their top target at 3T it wasn't due to a lack of effort. 

I think teams are smart to hold out for a premium as this draft was deep with high floor prospects into the deep 3rd round.  I have to assume the high price Gallimore was for a 4th rounder and i would have done that in a heartbeat. But he was also one of my fav draft crushes, i think he was a steal in the late 3rd. 

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I read somewhere that when Rick called Tampa Bay & their guy told Licht, “Minnesota’s on the line,” he simply said “too low” & didn’t take the call...

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@MaroonBells said:
I thought Gallimore was the most underrated player in the draft, so I would've loved that. Sounds like the Vikings tried to move up even higher than that to land their DT, but could find no takers. Interesting that they may have finally found one at #84 with the Rams. Be interesting to watch the careers of Lynch vs. Gallimore. 

Gallimore now starting in Dallas and looking really good...According to PurpleCrush and Geoff in the thread above, Vikings wanted him. Just couldn't pull off the trade up to get him. The battle between him, Bradbury and our below-average guards will be good matchups to watch. 

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