Everything we learned at Vikings minicamp (Part 2)

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Matthew Coller talks about the end of minicamp and all the things reporters on hand were able to take in from the action combined with what players and coaches had to say.

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0:58.5	Kurt says if Hawkinson doesn't put up crazy numbers this year,
1:01.4	will he be a Viking in 2026?
1:04.1	Well, it depends on what you mean by crazy numbers. If T.J. Hawkinson has, let's say, 73 catches for 812 yards and five touchdowns. Is he going to be a Viking in
1:16.7	2026? Oh yeah, absolutely he will be. And I haven't looked at his contract lately of when
1:23.2	you can get out of that and so forth. I think the only way he's not a Minnesota Viking is if it went really bad somehow.
1:30.4	If there was another major injury, if him and J.J. McCarthy just did not work out at all together
1:36.8	and they couldn't figure out their chemistry or something.
1:39.7	But when they sign Oliver, there's this a little bit of natural like, oh, does this mean something
1:45.0	about Hawkinson? And the answer is no, because 12 personnel, one running back, two tight ends,
1:50.6	is a cheat code in the NFL. And the Vikings want to use it more. And it's a cheat code because
1:56.0	teams want to play nickel. They don't have big linebackers. You want to be able to run play action out of that.
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