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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Minnesota Vikings Team Preview

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe previews the Minnesota Vikings for 2021 fantasy football purposes with rankings and projections for all of the key players. Jeff kicks things off with some thoughts on Kellen Mond and breaks down Kirk Cousins' fantasy outlook. Jeff then turns his attention to Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen. He then tells you why he isn't particularly bullish on Irv Smith. Jeff wraps things up with his reasoning for why Dalvin Cook is the No. 2 pick in 2021 1QB redraft leagues.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up? It's the rant. My name is Jeff Racklevin. It is Wednesday July 7th our team preview

0:22.4

series. Rolls on here as fantasy football draft season is officially underway. Yes, that's

0:28.4

right, man. Fourth of July. That's the line in the sand for me. So we are there. We are up to

0:35.4

Minnesota. The Vikings today on the show before I dive into this team. Just a reminder that we do

0:42.8

have a contest going on. It's really easy to enter. All you have to do is review the show on Apple

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podcasts and give the show a rating. And in your review, leave your Twitter handle and you'll be

0:53.7

entered into win a rant t-shirt. The logo of this podcast on a t-shirt doesn't get better than

0:59.7

that. Well, yes, it does, but it's still pretty cool. And hey, it's free. So I appreciate everybody

1:05.5

who's done that so far continue to do so. Even if you don't listen on Apple podcasts, it helps if

1:11.2

you review it there. It's pretty easy to do anybody. I could figure it out so you could too. All right,

1:17.0

so let's dive into the Minnesota Vikings here. And you know, we'll start with Kurt Cousins

1:22.8

because his days are certainly numbered in a Minnesota Vikings uniform. I don't think that's

1:28.5

something that happens this year, though, I don't want to rule it out. And I'll talk about that in

1:32.0

just a second. But Cousins contract is up after next season. And really after this year,

1:39.3

the Vikings could kind of safely get out of Kurt Cousins without a massive cap hit or any

1:45.9

this year would have been. But after this season, they can move on. And it looks like the

1:52.4

writing is on the wall for them to move on because it was widely circulated that they were very

1:57.8

much interested in trading up to the number eight spot in this year's NFL draft that was with

2:03.0

the Carolina Panthers. And that would have been to take Justin Fields. Ultimately, they don't get

2:08.7

the deal done. Fields goes at 11. Minnesota finally addresses. There was that mini run of quarter

2:15.4

backs on day two this year. So you had Kyle Trasco, then immediately Kellan Mond and then Davis Mills

2:22.5

right after that. So they addressed the position with Mond. And honestly, outside of the big five

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