{"id":541212,"date":"2026-03-15T03:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541212\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:36:06","slug":"vikings-could-be-a-trade-partner-with-the-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541212\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings could be a trade partner with the Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 14, 2026, 8:27 p.m. CT<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Vikings are bringing 31-year-old Aaron Jones back in 2026. But could they look to add another running back from the Class of 2017 to their room?<\/p>\n

Adam Schefter reported this week that the New Orleans Saints could be looking to trade Alvin Kamara, who has spent his entire nine-year career with the team.<\/p>\n

“There now are questions around the league about whether RB Alvin Kamara will be moving on from New Orleans and whether the Saints would be willing trade him,” Schefter tweeted<\/a> Tuesday. “Teams are tracking and wondering about it.”<\/p>\n

The Vikings were interested in signing Travis Etienne before he signed with the Saints. Alex Kay of Bleacher Report believed<\/a> Minnesota could be in play for Kamara after that news.<\/p>\n

With four picks in the final three rounds of the upcoming draft, the Vikings can afford to kick one over to New Orleans in exchange for a back who will plug one of their biggest holes and potentially contribute to a bounce-back campaign in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n

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To be fair, Kay wrote this before the Vikings announced they were bringing Jones back. At this point, it feels unlikely the team would trade draft capital for a running back who is 31, and Minnesota already has Jordan Mason, too.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean the Vikings won’t add a running back between now and the season. But it feels like something that won’t happen until the draft, when they can select a younger, cheaper option to supplement their veteran room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 14, 2026, 8:27 p.m. CT The Minnesota Vikings are bringing 31-year-old Aaron Jones back in 2026. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[202558,64,63,593,85,268140,268141,268142,203469,268144,254151,202991,203139,268143,202561],"class_list":["post-541212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsnflvikings","tag-sstsnvikings","tag-tagalvin-kamara","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagjordan-mason","tag-tagminnesota","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtravis-etienne-jr","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}