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Vikings Territory: 4 Takeaways From Day 5 Of Vikings Training Camp
On offense, he had a skeleton crew at practice on Monday.
August 3, 2021
The Minnesota Vikings had Sunday off from training camp after a Saturday night practice stuffed full of fanfare and controversy. The nighttime practice was a paid event for fans — one that hosted just one quarterback, Nate Browning, as the last man standing from the Vikings coronavirus-related fallout.
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Here are four takeaways from the fifth day of Vikings 2021 training camp.
Rookie quarterback Kellen Mond contracted the coronavirus and thus exposed seemingly unvaccinated players like Kirk Cousins and Nate Stanley. Because players have a stark choice to get the COVID vaccination — and some of them refrain — Zimmer’s mood has regressed. His outward frustration is palpable as he believes the team’s receipt of the vaccination would be an easy fix to the ongoing proliferation of COVID’s Delta variant.
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On offense, he had a skeleton crew at practice on Monday. The defense didn’t fare much better. Overall, the team didn’t perform well, he said.
Of course, this is likely the culmination of the vaccination vexation for the day. The return of Cousins and Mond — while avoiding losing other players, too — might perk him up later in the week.
The theorized offensive line of Christian Darrisaw, Ezra Cleveland, Garrett Bradbury, Wyatt Davis, and Brian O’Neill is point-blank on hold. Now is the perfect time for those men to begin coalescing, but the Vikings just have to wait until both players are healthy. There is no appetite to rush them back, evidently.
His camp efforts to date show zero signs of sophomore setbacks. In fact, Jefferson looks better.
Today, the NFL originator of The Griddy caught a pass after a Randy Moss-like adjustment.
This stuff is becoming commonplace for the LSU alumnus. He shattered the NFL’s rookie record for receiving yards and led the league in 25+ yard receptions in 2020.
What’s left to determine? How many different passers will toss him a ball this summer — is the interesting question.
General Manager Rick Spielman now has as many quarterbacks on his roster as tight ends. The four incumbents — Kirk Cousins, Kellen Mond, Jake Browning, and Nate Stanley — are joined by Case Cookus and Danny Etling.
Same gig for him — he is in Minnesota because Cousins, Mond, and Stanley are not.
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