Last week, the news emerged that our Vikings decided to trade Mike Hughes and a seventh to the Kansas City Chiefs for a mere sixth-round pick. Upon first glance, the Mike Hughes trade makes essentially no sense for our Vikings, so we need to dig a little deeper to untangle what may be going on.
We wrote about Hughes not too long ago to address the news that Minnesota declined his fifth-year option. Here is what we had to say at the end: “To be clear, Hughes’ career isn’t over, and it’s entirely possible that he finally puts everything together and starts to become a really good player.