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Vikings Territory: New Players Arrive On Vikings Free Agent Radar
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2021-08-26
Everson Griffen signed with the Minnesota Vikings to start the week, and the team may not be quite done with adding new free agents.
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But not in 2021. Indeed, the roster must be shrunk to 53 players by August 31st, yet some notable free agent names are currently whispered with links to the Vkings. These are those men.
Playing in 72 career games while starting in 18 of them, Parks would be a depth safety behind Harrison Smith and Xavier Woods. Most of his career has been spent with the Denver Broncos, drafted in 2016 at the start of the dismal post-Manning era. Park has tallied four interceptions to date, 180 total tackles in five seasons, and generally posts a Pro Football Focus grade in the high-50s. Although in 2018, that score sneakily crept to 74.0.
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Insert Johnson, at least for a depth piece. With the Houston Texans, partook in 29 games and started six of them since entering the NFL in 2018. He posted a 64.5 PFF grade during the pandemic season, playing 245 offensive snaps for the lowly Texans. That ain’t bad.
Here’s the most exciting one. A former Minnesota Golden Gopher, Martin was the NFL’s second-best rookie linebacker last year per PFF grade. For some reason, the Green Bay Packers cut him loose this week.
Acquiring Martin would be a contingency for the retirement of Cameron Smith last week and Anthony Barr’s weird injury status. Suddenly, Minnesota might be thin at linebacker. Martin would fix that.
Regardless, it’s bizarre that Green Bay ended their relationship with Martin so soon.
The Vikings current kicker, Greg Joseph, has looked decent all summer. But for Vikings fans’ standards, decent means the man isn’t awful. Joseph’s stretches of consistency in training camp are impressive, but then he missed a long field goal in the second preseason game.
Pineiro played for the Chicago Bears in 2019 after a season when field-goal kicking ravaged their playoff hopes. He drilled 23 or 28 field goals, a middle-of-the-road stat for that season.
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