PRESEASON WATCH LIST: Minnesota Vikings
The Audible
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🗓️ 22 July 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Our PRESEASON WATCH LIST kicks off with a full tour of the NFC North, as Sigmund Bloom and Cecil Lammey break down the biggest fantasy and NFL storylines you need to track before training camp.
Can Caleb Williams take the next step and enter true superstar territory in 2026. The Bears have surrounded him with talent — now it's time to see if he becomes the kind of QB who tilts the entire division.
Are the Detroit Lions slipping out of their Super Bowl window. After two years of pushing chips in, Bloom and Cecil examine whether the roster is still ascending… or quietly plateauing.
Do the Packers have a fantasy sleeper at running back. Marshawn Lloyd might be the most explosive RB on the roster — and fantasy GMs need to know his name before August drafts.
And in Minnesota, Kyler Murray is the favorite to win the QB battle. If he does, what does that mean for the fantasy value of Justin Jefferson. Could this be the best QB‑WR pairing Jefferson has ever had.
Bloom and Cecil hit every angle — fantasy, film, roster construction, and preseason expectations — as the NFC North sets the stage for one of the most unpredictable seasons in years.
🔥 In this episode:
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Why Caleb Williams could explode into superstar status
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If the Lions are still in their Super Bowl window
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How Marshawn Lloyd becomes a fantasy sleeper RB
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Why Kyler Murray likely wins the Vikings QB job
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What Kyler means for Justin Jefferson's fantasy ceiling
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| 0:00.0 | Back in action is the preseason watch list, Cecil Ami and Sigmund Bloom, going through 32 teams, 32 episodes and every skill position player that you want to know about wrapping up the NFC North with a discussion about the Minnesota Vikings, which might be short, pun intended. |
| 0:14.5 | You got a team, here's a word of the wise. |
| 0:16.9 | You want to dominate your league. |
| 0:18.3 | Go to football guys. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm living in a fantasy. |
| 0:21.7 | Football. |
| 0:22.9 | Got everybody mad at me. |
| 0:24.7 | Football. |
| 0:25.4 | Because every game I had to win. |
| 0:26.8 | Football. |
| 0:27.9 | I got to be a champion. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm living in a fantasy. |
| 0:33.3 | Kyler Murray is going to start and J.D. McCarthy's a bust. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.1 | I mean, or. Right? There's no other way to put it, right? Let's stop dancing around this thing. McCarthy is not a fit with Kevin O'Connell. I never thought he was. I had a second round grade on JJ. And I'm full disclosure, if you remember, I like JJ. He just needed to be in like a Sean peyton sean mcvay system so maybe there's a |
| 0:57.0 | sam darnold reclamation project although i could easily make the argument that sam darnold |
| 1:01.3 | showed a hell of a lot more than j jay mccarthy has the lost season with the damn knee |
| 1:05.6 | of course you know last year and all the struggles so dynasty wise i'm not totally giving up on j jay but let's call |
| 1:13.1 | call it what it is like kailer murray's just kicking his ass this offseason in terms of the |
| 1:17.7 | buzz the information like it looks like kailer murray's going to start it does but how we get there |
| 1:24.2 | could really illuminate where this franchise is. And it shows how quickly things |
| 1:29.4 | can change because a year ago, it was, oh, Kevin O'Connell, all the quarterbacks he touches, |
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