Chad Beebe. © Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports.
The following questions are about current Minnesota Vikings topics, answered by VikingsTerritory. Today is the April 3rd edition, addressed in a from-the-hip fashion. If you have questions, please email them to d.baker@vikingsterritory.com.
Also, please note: These are opinion-based responses. Some answers will be incorrect from time to time. But we’ll try to keep that to a minimum.
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A: He is unlikely to return to the Vikings, generally speaking — because they would’ve already brought him back by now.
Beebe is a free agent coming off injury and one who really isn’t very good. He’s just lovable. Vikings fans love “sons of former players,” and Beebe is one of those.
He should be considered a “Zimmer guy” and probably won’t be back. Although, stranger things have happened. Beebe will try out elsewhere in the NFL.
A: The Vikings have about $12 million in cap space as of April 2nd.
About $9 million will be needed for a rookie draft class. So, they’re in decent shape. They rank 19th in the NFL as of April 2nd in available cap space.
If Kwesi Adofo-Mensah wants to make one more free-agent splash, he will likely have to restructure the contracts of Dalvin Cook or Eric Kendricks — as he did with Adam Thielen and Harrison Smith.
A: K.J. Osborn.
Osborn came into his own as WR3 in a Zimmer offense. Imagine what he can do in a scheme that actually embraces WR3s with two arms.
Others like Kirk Cousins and Irv Smith Jr. will flourish, too, but we’ll get to see in 2022 if Osborn is worthy of eventual WR2 status.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his daily YouTube Channel, VikesNow. He hosts a podcast with Bryant McKinnie, which airs every Wednesday with Raun Sawh and Sally from Minneapolis. His Viking fandom dates back to 1996. Listed guilty pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ and The Doors (the band).
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