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Why the Vikings trading Mike Hughes was the right decision

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The Minnesota Vikings raised a few eyebrows on Thursday when they traded former first-round pick Mike Hughes to the Kansas City Chiefs.

During his first game with the Minnesota Vikings, things couldn’t have turned out much better for cornerback Mike Hughes.

The Vikings managed to get a win over the San Francisco 49ers in Week 1 of the 2018 season, thanks in part to Hughes, who returned an interception touchdown early in the third quarter of the matchup.

After that game, however, Hughes’ career in the NFL has not gone the way that anyone had envisioned following Minnesota’s decision to select him with their first-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft.