Vikings host Kareem Hunt for a visit -- do they need a veteran RB?

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Matthew Coller and Will Ragatz react to the news that running back Kareem Hunt is visiting the Minnesota Vikings and talk about what they've seen from the running backs thus far and discuss Ivan Pace Jr. and the linebacker situation and the cornerbacks' preseason debut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to. Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew
0:27.8	Collar here joined by Will Regots of Sports Illustrated and look we were just going to record a regular old episode
0:35.6	we were just going to talk about our thoughts from last night's Vikings
0:38.6	preseason game and then suddenly our friend Tom Pellicero from NFL network just comes down from the heavens and says,
0:46.7	hey guys you want something to talk about today? Here you go. Have this gift from me a report that running back Kareem Hunt is visiting the Minnesota Vikings.
0:59.0	Will the floor is yours reaction ahead. What do you think?
1:04.0	Yeah, it's just the latest in a string of now visits that the Vikings are hosting with these established veteran players. First it was Dalton Rissner, which obviously he plays guard that whipped the fan base up into a frenzy and they're still talking about it after watching at Ingram play football last night.
1:22.0	Then there was Ronald Darby with Ben Gessling of the Star Tribune broke,
1:25.0	a cornerback who's been seven, eight years in the league
1:28.0	and has been a proven start.
1:30.6	He's dealt with some injuries, but that was another visit and now
1:32.8	Kareem Hunt and it's like this is another position where the Vikings are a little bit
1:37.8	unproven. It's true at guard. It's true at cornerback. It's true at running back and
1:41.2	I know that people are hey Alexander Madison is just going to step in and be the starter and everything will be roses and great but we haven't seen him be the starter before so it makes sense to me at the very least that the Vikings would consider just taking a look.
1:54.4	Karim Hunt played in the NFL for six years.
1:57.4	Every single year it seems he ranks really highly in terms of yards after contact,
2:02.0	mistackles forced, receiving yards.
2:04.5	I was just looking it up.
2:05.3	He's 11th among running backs in receiving yards since debuting in 2017 and that's not even
2:10.4	as a full-time player.
2:11.6	He's been sharing the back field with Nick Chubb so you know I get it I mean it doesn't mean it's going to lead to a signing the Risner and Darby ones haven't yet
2:19.5	The Vikings could look at hunt and decide that, you know,
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