Former GM Outlines Potential Cardinals, Vikings Draft Trade

The Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings could get this deal done during the 2024 NFL Draft.

Jan 7, 2024; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson (18) looks up / Lon Horwedel-USA TODAY Sports

ARIZONA -- The Arizona Cardinals have been fairly open on their potential exit from the No. 4 pick in this year's draft.

“We’re always going to be listening,” Cardinals GM Monti Ossenfort previously told reporters. “We’ll always have the conversation. We may not get to a point where the deal makes sense, whether it’s at No. 4 or anywhere we’re picking, but we’re always going to have the conversation.”

Ossenfort is well-versed in maneuvering the draft board after doing so his first year at the helm in 2023.

With plenty of holes to fill in the roster, Arizona may soon repeat their efforts from this time last offseason.

There's a handful of teams potentially looking to make the move to where the Cardinals currently sit, though the favorites at the moment are the Minnesota Vikings, who recently acquired an extra first-round pick and appear to be all-in on a new quarterback after losing Kirk Cousins to free agency and missing on other previously available names.

The 33rd Team recently did an exercise where NFL voice Charles Davis and former GM Rick Spielman went back and forth as respective teams looking to make a move on draft day, and the Cardinals-Vikings trade talks went as followed:

Charles Davis (acting as Vikings GM): "So Monti Ossenfort, you have your quarterback. You paid him a couple of years ago. Your head coach obviously likes Kyler Murray. He has talked about how much he wants him to be the extra coach on the field and how much he believes in him. So you got your quarterback. I know you need receivers desperately because last year I think you were 31st or 32nd in wide receiver yards."

Rick Spielman (acting as Cardinals GM): "If you are interested - and really interested in coming up and get your quarterback Minnesota Vikings - I will take the two ones for you to get up there. And I have to have a one next year because you don't have a two this year. So I'm going to have to get the one next year but I am willing to forfeit that for Justin Jefferson."

Proposed trade package:

Vikings receive: No. 4
Cardinals receive: No. 11, No. 23 and 2025 First-Round pick OR Justin Jefferson

Davis wasn't a fan.

"OK, forget that," he said before rejected the deal and moving on.

We'll see if the actual general managers can strike a deal when the first round begins on April 25.