Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here, along with

Dane Mizatani, the Pioneer Press.

We are inside TCL Performance Center following the Vikings' first mini camp practice.

And we are going to have a hardcore breakdown of what J.J. McCarthy looked like.

But there is actually a more pressing breaking news matter that we need to discuss, Dane.

And that is that Christian Derisaw was here and with a giant brace on his leg was doing

individual drills. Now, he didn't participate in the seven on sevenssevins or the slow-motion 11-on-11s,

but the fact that he was going through every individual drill today is an enormous sign for

this team because going into minicamp, I had no expectation of seeing 71.

In fact, we walk out on the field and like, wait a minute,

there's a pretty darn giant human being out there that I don't recognize from the last OTAs, and that was Christian Derisaw. And I thought that considering what he went through with the

ACL tear in week eight against Los Angeles Rams, doing individual drills, he looked really nimble

and looked like he was getting back to where

they need him to be. And so this, I don't want to put carts before horses or jump to too

many conclusions just because he's back here doing individual drills. But Dane, this would seem

to be an enormous development for the Minnesota Vikings. This is one of the best players in the entire national football league.

And we weren't sure is he going to be back week one, week three, week five.

But this would appear to be tracking toward having a full participation in training camp and being ready for the season.

For sure.

And I think it is important to kind of pump the brakes. And look,

he was out here today. We don't know what that means moving forward. We don't know what that

means for training camp. We don't know what that means for week one. But we've been around this

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