>> The Vikings’ 2022 NFL draft was complex, for sure, but also telling. The Vikings ended up with just one starter, Ed Ingram, while picks they traded have become starters for three other teams: the Packers, Colts and Raiders.

Minnesota took safety Lewis Cine with its first-round pick, No. 32 overall, then released him before this season. The Vikings traded the No. 34 pick they got in a trade with the Lions to Packers, who took Christian Watson, who became their starting wide receiver.

The Vikings acquired the Nos. 32, 34 and 66 picks from the Lions for Minnesota’s No. 12 pick. The Lions used No. 12 on Jameson Williams, who had 121 yards receiving, including a TD in Detroit’s 26-20 season-opening OT victory over the Rams.

Watson and Williams are in the Vikings North Division. So is Josh Paschal, the Lions’ No. 2 defensive end they took with the No. 46 pick.

The Lions and Packers (with a healthy Jordon Love) are considered Super Bowl contenders.

For the No. 34 pick, the Vikings received the Nos. 53 and 59 picks. With No. 59, they chose Ingram, a starting right guard. With No. 53, traded to the Colts, Indianapolis took wide receiver Alec Pierce, who is a backup wide receiver. With the No. 66 pick from Detroit, the Vikings took linebacker Brian Asamoah, their No. 2 right inside linebacker.

The Vikings got the No. 42 pick in a trade with the Colts and chose cornerback Andrew Booth Jr., who they recently dumped on the Cowboys for cornerback Nahshon Wright, who the Vikings subsequently released. The Cowboys have kept Booth as their No. 2 backup.

Also in that ignominious 2022 trade, the Vikings sent the No. 77 pick to the Colts, who chose Bernhard Raimann, now their left tackle starter. With No. 192, the Colts chose Andrew Ogletree, their third tight end.

The Vikings traded Nos. 122 and 250 in the 2022 draft to the Raiders for Nos. 126 and 227. With the No. 122 draft pick, the Raiders chose Zamir White, now their starting running back. With No. 250, the Raiders took running back Brittain Brown, released two weeks ago.

With No. 227, the Vikings chose tight end Nick Muse. The Vikings traded the No. 126 pick back to the Raiders for No. 165 and 169. With No. 126, the Raiders took defensive lineman Neil Farrell Jr., who was traded to the Chiefs for a 2024 draft pick — Dylan Laube — who is the Raiders No. 4 running back.

With the No. 165 pick, the Vikings took defensive lineman Esezi Otomewo, who they released in August. At No. 169, the Vikings took Ty Chandler, their No. 2 running back to Aaron Jones.

Also in 2022, the Vikings traded a future seventh-round pick to the Raiders for backup QB Nick Mullens. That pick turned out to be cornerback M.J. Devonshire, released just before the regular season.

>> It’s telling that each of the players Vikings cut before this season’s deadline and who have ended up with other teams are on practice squads and not 53-man rosters.

>> It still looks like, behind the scenes, that the NBA is trying to get a deal done that would have Timberwolves-Lynx owner Glen Taylor buying out the Alex Rodriguez-Marc Lore-Michael Bloomberg group for more money than they originally invested as limited partners.

>> The NBA’s new $76 billion media rights deal could mean nearly $200 million per season for the Timberwolves over the 11-year contract span.

>> Tickets for the Timberwolves Oct. 4 exhibition game against the Lakers in Palm Desert, Calif., range from $132.95 to $738.10.

The Lakers, by the way, have hired former Benilde-St. Margaret’s guard Michael Wexler, who graduated summa cum laude, as their lead video coordinator.

>> Despite several options, look for the Twins to remain on WCCO-AM next year.

>> The state’s top prep boys basketball prospect, 6-11, 240-pound senior Tommy Ahneman of Cretin-Derham Hall, is making an official recruiting visit to Iowa this weekend. He still has official visits scheduled with Minnesota, Nebraska and Notre Dame.

Meanwhile, the Gophers on Friday offered 6-7 Cretin-Derham Hall sophomore Tyus Schlagel, who already has an offer from Iowa and this weekend was to make an unofficial visit to Wisconsin. Iowa has also offered Raiders’ 6-2 junior off-guard JoJo Mitchell.

>> With the recent coaching vacancy, it’ll be interesting whether the Polars end up with star alumnus Khalid El-Amin, now coaching at Anoka-Ramsey Community College.

>> There are wait lists for the Gophers’ three-night (starting at $1,419) and two-night ($1,049) fan packages to Los Angeles for the football team’s October 12 game against UCLA.

>> After teaching elementary school students for 20 years in the Robbinsdale district, Randall McDaniel, 59, has retired. Many of his students, grades one through five, never even knew of McDaniel’s Pro Football Hall of Fame background with the Vikings. And that, he said, was fine with him.

>> Nebraska freshman QB Dylan Raiola, who de-committed from Georgia, played for four different high schools in four years. The Gophers don’t play the Cornhuskers this season.

>> The Peacock Network has a lot of nerve charging for the Gophers’ football game against Rhode Island.

>> While the Warriors’ Stephen Curry’s new contract is 62.6 million for the 2026-27 season, the Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns already is signed for $57.1 million that season, and for $61 million the following season.

>> In the Houston Texans’ 29-27 season-opening victory over the Colts, ex-Vikings pass rusher Danielle Hunter, 29, with his new $49 million, two-year contract, had one tackle. Hunter returns to Minneapolis next Sunday to play the Vikings.

>> During Sunday’s Vikings-49ers national anthem ceremony, two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters will do a flyover.

>> The NFL’s best play-by-play voice, Kevin Harlan, will work Sunday’s Vikings-49ers game on CBS-TV.

>> It’ll be between Aaron Rodgers of the Jets and Kirk Cousins of the Falcons for NFL Comeback Player of the Year, but Sam Darnold of the Vikings will be in the running, per betOnline.ag.

Overheard

>> Former Vikings running back Chuck Foreman on Vikings running back Aaron Jones: “I’ve always said he’s the real deal — he runs with major, major attitude.”