The Minnesota Vikings are positioned to make a sizeable jump into the top portion of the 2024 draft after securing an additional first-round pick from the Houston Texans. How high they can get remains unclear, though.

They have shown varying levels of interest in the top QB prospects of the incoming class too.

However, that interest could be a result of their newfound wealth of first-round draft capital rather than the other way around according to ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter.

“A couple of weeks back the Houston Texans went to the Minnesota Vikings and initiated a trade in which they got out of the first round, got an extra second-round pick, and they got an extra 2 in that deal in as well in 2025,” Schefter said on “The Stephen A. Smith Show” on April 3. “Well lo and behold, everybody assumed that that trade was the Vikings initiating it so that they could go up and get a quarterback.

“The truth of the matter was it was the Texans who initiated that to get out of the first round to get added draft capital in the second round the next two years so that they could go be in position to make a trade like the one that they did on Wednesday acquiring Stefon Diggs at what many people are surprised by the price in the end.”

With Kirk Cousins leaving in free agency for the Atlanta Falcons, the Vikings have needed a QB.