After a generally quieter stretch of time, trade talk around Jonathan Greenard has naturally ramped up a bit during draft week. ESPN's Adam Schefter has freshly named the Philadelphia Eagles, who were a previously rumored suitor, as a team with ongoing interest in acquiring the veteran edge rusher from the Minnesota Vikings.
For multiple viable reasons, the Vikings do not seem overly inclined to trade Greenard. However, head coach Kevin O'Connell and interim general manager Rob Brzezinski were necessarily vague about the situation as the voluntary portion of the offseason program kicked off this week.
Greenard's absence from the start of voluntary offseason work was easy to overreact to under the circumstances, but it was easily explained by his wedding anniversary being on Monday. This is where we reassert how everything right now is voluntary, even if there are layers to Greenard's specific situation that are impossible to ignore.
Back in March, when Schefter reported the Vikings were open to trading Greenard, ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reported they were believed to want a Day 2 draft pick in return. After Thursday night's first round of the draft plays out, maybe they get an offer along that line that'll be hard to ignore.
A Minnesota Vikings insider sets a range for a Jonathan Greenard trade offer that might be considered
On his eponymous show two days before the draft, Alec Lewis of The Athletic talked about the prospect of a Greenard trade somewhere around the time the Vikings are currently set to be on the clock in the second round at No. 49 overall.
"If a team were to try to call and get a Jonathan Greenard deal done, at some point, I would expect the pick to come, like, around that 49 range. That would be a range where it would start to make sense to me. Anything worse than that, I'd say worse than, like 60, you start to have a lot of questions about whether the Vikings would even listen to that as an idea."
For whatever it's worth, in light of Schefter's reporting to start the week, the Eagles' second-round pick currently sits at No. 54 overall. Ultimately, though, Lewis does not see Greenard being traded.
"Part of the reason in my mock draft, I didn't have an edge rusher was because...under the impression that Jonathan Greenard will be on the Minnesota Vikings."
If the bar for the Vikings to entertain trading Greenard is a mid-second-round pick, and it absolutely could/should be, the list of suitors is naturally narrow in concert with his reported desire for a pay raise. While the lean continues to be toward him remaining a Viking in 2026, things can change quickly.
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