3 Roster Areas Where Vikings Need Most Help…Free corporation will begin in two days, and the 2024 NFL Draft is forty seven days away. The Minnesota Vikings’ roster needs will be addressed in about 50 hours.
Vikings Roster Needs: The Top 3 Spots
The club has about $37 million in cap space, the most it has encountered in years.
And when gamers start to signal on the dotted line in free company or get drafted in April, hold these three roster spots in idea as Minnesota’s neediest. They’re ranked in ascending order (No. 1 = most urgent need).
3. Offensive Line Depth
Vikings Roster Needs
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These are the Vikings’ offensive linemen earlier than free agency:
Left Tackle
LT1: Christian Darrisaw
LT2: Coy Cronk
Right Tackle
RT1: Brian O’Neill
Center
C1: Garrett Bradbury
Left Guard
LG1: Tyrese Robinson
LG2: Henry Byrd
Right Guard
RG1: Ed Ingram
That … isn’t very a lot beef, and about half of of the group can be categorised as exercise squad material. So, Minnesota will add pretty a few depth linemen and a beginning left guard, whether Dalton Risner for a sequel or a newcomer from the open market.
These are the inner OL free agents:
OT Hakeem Adeniji
IOL Blake Brandel
OT Oli Udoh
G Chris Reed
OT David Quessenberry
IOL Dalton Risner
IOL Austin Schlottmann
2. Defensive Line — All of It
The Vikings have overlooked the protecting tackle spot years — nearly a decade — or at least the spot next to the nostril tackle. For 2024, they can choose to roll with Dean Lowry again or seek an improvement on the free-agent market.
Then, at EDGE rusher, it’s Patrick Jones II and Andre Carter II under contract. That’s it. EDGE needs help, perhaps via re-signing Danielle Hunter or discovering two new confirmed backyard linebackers.
These are Minnesota’s defensive linemen under contract for next season:
Outside Linebacker
OLB1: Patrick Jones II
OLB2: Andre Carter II
Defensive End
DE1: Dean Lowry
DE2: Jaquelin Roy
Nose Tackle
NT1: Harrison Phillips
And the free-agents-to-be:
DT Jonathan Bullard
OLB Marcus Davenport
OLB Danielle Hunter
DT James Lynch
DL T.J. Smith
DT Khyiris Tonga
OLB D.J. Wonnum
1. Quarterback
A no-brainer here — by way of a million miles — if the Vikings’ 2024 season commenced tonight, Nick Mullens and Jaren Hall would be the quarterback solutions. Of course, that’s not the way it works, and universal manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah will formulate announce his quarterback decision next week or at some stage in the draft.
Kirk Cousins has led the Vikings for the remaining six seasons, but it appears his time in the Twin Cities is winding down. Thereafter, Minnesota would probably need a quarterback from the draft. Otherwise, a splashy alternate for any one like Justin Fields would be in order.
Quarterback is the most crucial position in football — maybe sports activities — and the Vikings don’t have a QB1 as of March 9th.
