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Vikings Giving Fans What They Want at QB on Saturday
The Minnesota Vikings are set to break in at least one new quarterback for the 2024 season. With Kirk Cousins in Atlanta, it’s a guarantee that there will be a new signal caller under center. Who, for how long, and when are all questions. Saturday, though, should be prime viewing for fans.
Is Injury the Sole Fault of Lewis Cine’s Struggles?
Just weeks into his professional career, Lewis Cine suffered a significant lower leg fracture. The Minnesota Vikings were overseas, and their rookie safety had to be left in London while the team flew home. Unfortunately, that started his career on a sour note, but even more unfortunately, it has never found a good one.
4 Items to Watch for in Vikings’ Preseason Opener
The Minnesota Vikings are set to take on the Las Vegas Raiders in their preseason opener on Saturday afternoon. Heading into that preseason opener, here is a look at four items to keep an eye on for the Vikings as they try to figure out their final 53-man roster. 4....
The P/PTSD Perspective: Ex-Vikings Kicker Gets Booted, Looking for a New Receiver, and 1st-Team CB
PurplePTSD works in partnership with Vikings Territory, similarly doing their utmost to offer top-notch coverage of the Minnesota Vikings. As a result, we’re promoting five of their top articles of the past week in “The P/PTSD Perspective.” Take a peek at some of their best stuff. The...
Purple Rumor Mill: Jordan Addison’s Punishment, Jaren Hall as a Trade Candidate, Kwesi and Kevin
VikingsTerritory’s Purple Rumor Mill is a two-day chronicle each week. All the week’s Vikings rumors are lassoed and plopped in two spots — articles on Saturday and Sunday — for review. Today is the August 10th edition. Purple Rumor Mill: Jordan Addison’s Punishment, Jaren Hall as...
Young Viking Sees His Stint with the Team Come to an Unceremonious End
The Minnesota Vikings 2022 draft class is looking like one of the bigger blemishes on general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah’s resume. That blemish grew a little bigger as one of the young Vikings from that draft class saw his stint in Minnesota come to a very unceremonious end as Minnesota opted to trade CB Andrew Booth Jr. on Friday.
Cowboys Sign Ex-Vikings Defender
Roster maintenance is still hot and heavy in the NFL, with the preseason underway and the regular reason less than four weeks away. Accordingly, the Dallas Cowboys added a linebacker this week familiar to Minnesota Vikings fans — Nick Vigil. Star Telegram‘s Clarence Hill Jr. tweeted Tuesday, “The Cowboys...
Latest T.J. Hockenson Update … Is Familiar
Minnesota Vikings tight end T.J. Hockenson has worked “off to the side” at training camp, and by all reports, the playmaker has looked wonderful amid his recovery from a torn ACL. Latest T.J. Hockenson Update … Is Familiar. But that doesn’t mean he’ll be ready for the...
Preseason Game No. 1 Brings Massive Intrigue for Vikings
The Minnesota Vikings haven’t won a preseason game since 2019. Of course, that means their season hangs on the result against the Las Vegas Raiders on Saturday. No, that’s not true, but the game brings massive intrigue. Preseason Game No. 1 Brings Massive Intrigue for Vikings. When the...
One Vikings Player Hoping to Rejuvenate His Career Seems to Be Impressing So Far
This offseason, the Vikings have been faced with a number of questions regarding their roster construction. While just about every position has faced uncertainty and one point or another prior to free agency or the draft, the defensive tackle position has been one that folks have kept a particularly close eye on.
The Vikings’ QB Curverball Ahead of Preseason Game 1
Apparently, the plan is to start Sam Darnold against the Raiders before handing things off to J.J. McCarthy. The rookie is supposed to see “significant” time, per head coach Kevin O’Connell, before Jaren Hall takes the baton across the finish line. The Vikings’ QB curveball is that Nick Mullens, someone who has appeared to be a trade candidate since the 2024 NFL Draft, isn’t expected to play.
A Pre-Preseason Vikings 53-Man Roster Prediction
The Minnesota Vikings have their first preseason game of the 2024 season this weekend,. That matchup takes place on Saturday afternoon at 3 PM against the Las Vegas Raiders as the Vikings continue to move closer to roster cutdown time. Prior to that matchup, here is a pre-preseason Vikings 53-man roster prediction.
Veteran Viking Buried on First Depth Chart
Remember back in March when veteran wide receiver Trent Sherfield joined the Minnesota Vikings via free agency and some thought, “Boom. There’s the new WR3?”. That theory might’ve been concocted too flippantly in the heat of the moment. The Vikings released a first unofficial depth chart on...
Vikings Resolve Preseason QB Mystery
Not many NFL teams currently have honest-to-goodness quarterback battles, but the Minnesota Vikings are one of them. And the next step of the QB1 puzzle took shape Thursday when head coach Kevin O’Connell opted to roll with the veteran Sam Darnold at QB1, at least to start the first preseason game, with rookie signal-caller J.J. McCarthy on deck to receive “substantial” playing time.
5 Most Intriguing Vikings to Watch in First Preseason Game
The Minnesota Vikings preseason formally gets underway on Saturday with a home contest versus the Las Vegas Raiders, a team that lost to the Vikings 3-0 in 2023. 5 Most Intriguing Vikings to Watch in First Preseason Game. Strangely, the Raiders are favored to prevail by about three or four...
Former Vikings Defender Joins Mike Zimmer in Dallas
Nick Vigil had a pair of stints with Minnesota. The former Vikings defender originally called the Twin Cities home in 2021. He did, however, pickup work with the 2023 Vikings, as well. Until recently, the veteran was looking for his next gig, but he’s getting a chance with his old boss, Mike Zimmer, who is now the defensive coordinator with the Dallas Cowboys. The word comes courtesy of The Athletic‘s Jon Machota.
Previewing This Week’s Vikings Game: Preseason Week 1 vs. Las Vegas Raiders
The Minnesota Vikings officially get their preseason scheduled kicked off this weekend when they take on the Las Vegas Raiders. For both teams, it will be their first real game action since Week 18 of the 2023 regular season as each squad missed out on the playoffs last year. Here is a look at everything you need to know ahead of this first Vikings game of the 2024 preseason.
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