NFL: The best trade in each franchise’s history

Best trade in Dallas Cowboys history: Biggest trade in NFL history

Vikings receive:

• RB Herschel Walker
• Dallas’s 3rd round pick in 1990
• San Diego’s 5th round pick in 1990
• Dallas’s 10th round pick in 1990
• Dallas’s 3rd round pick in 1991

Cowboys receive

• LB Jesse Solomon
• LB David Howard
• CB Issiac Holt
• DE Alex Stewart
• Minnesota’s 1st round pick in 1990
• Minnesota’s 2nd round pick in 1990
• Minnesota’s 6th round pick in 1990
• Minnesota’s 1st round pick in 1991 (conditional on cutting Solomon)
• Minnesota’s 2nd round pick in 1991 (conditional on cutting Howard)
• Minnesota’s 1st round pick in 1992 (conditional on cutting Holt)
• Minnesota’s 2nd round pick in 1992 (condition met by trading away Nelson)
• Minnesota’s 3rd round pick in 1992 (conditional on cutting Stewart)

San Diego Chargers receive

• RB Darrin Nelson

There was virtually no doubt that Herschel Walker would be a star coming out of Georgia. Once he landed with the cowboys, however, he produced at a decent level but he was what many expected. Unfazed by his subpar production, the Minnesota Vikings believed it was more so the system that the Cowboys was running as opposed to the player.

Minnesota then decided that they didn’t just want Walker but actually needed him. The Cowboys were more than willing to hand him over as long as the Vikings were willing to give up literally everything. They acquiesced.

With the help of the San Diego Chargers who played a small role, the Vikings got their man.

Once he got there, Walker proved to be the same colossal disappointment that he was in Dallas, failing to crack a thousand yards in a season. He would be traded three years later to the Philadelphia Eagles and continue his trend of letting teams down.

The Cowboys pulled easily the most lopsided trade in the history of the NFL.