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

And today out at TCO Performance Center, the Vikings just held a walkthrough, which means that there was no practice to react to.

And honestly, it's, it's kind of good because yesterday had everybody walking out

of that place with such a buzz, had it been not a great practice today, then maybe

that would have been a little bit of a buzzkill.

But we're still talking about, and I see Vikings fans on the interweb still talking about what happened yesterday with

J.J. McCarthy.

So you could go watch that recap if you missed any of that.

And then I am very, very excited to be at the night practice tomorrow.

So what we'll do on the show is go out there for the night practice, come back,

and it will be Vikings talk

after dark.

But since we had some time here today, I could sit around and think about the Vikings some

more, right?

And I hadn't made a 53-man roster projection.

I saw some of my colleagues making them, and I thought, this is the perfect day to make a 53-man roster projection. I saw some of my colleagues making them and I thought this is the perfect day to make a

53 man roster projection for 2025. And PSA, I've never gone 53 for 53 and all the time that I've

attempted 53 man roster projections. But it does give us an opportunity to have some conversations

about every position where it stands and just kind of do a reset going into the night

practice because the way I always think of it is that camp is kind of into sections, right,

where it's you start off with they're not in pads yet. And so we say over and over,

hey guys, remember, they're not in pads yet, but so and so looks pretty good. And then they get in pads,

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