The Vikings have been doing a nice job of keeping with their
desire to go with a youth movement and building through the draft.
I looked through the roster to see just exactly how young we
are getting. I found 7 players over 30 and that is it. There are 4- 30 years
old and they are Matt Cassel, Chad Greenway, Brian Robison, and Joe Berger.
Jared Allen is 31 and Cullen Loeffler and Kevin Williams are the oldest at 32.
The team is building through the youth and in 2014 may have
to go heavier with the youth because 18 of the current players are in the last
year of their contract.
This I believe is another reason to think the Vikes will be
even better than last year with these guys playing for contract renewals.
The list is as
follows for free agents to be after 2013:
Unrestricted Free
Agents
Jared Allen DE
Brian Robison DE
Kevin Williams DT
Charlie Johnson OG
Jerome Simpson WR
Fred Evans DT
AJ Jefferson CB
Chris Cook CB
Toby Gerhart RB
Joe Berger OG/C
Everson Griffen DE
Seth Olsen OG
Troy Kropog OT
George Johnson DE
Lawrence Jackson CB
Jacob Lacey CB
Joe Webb QB
Marvin Mitchell LB
It is scary looking at the list and seeing the defensive
line with the names we have gotten use to up. I could not imagine no Jared
Allen.
Restricted Free
Agents
Tyronne McKenzie LB
Larry Dean LB
Marcus Sherels CB
Andrew Sendejo CB
2013 season is going to be so exciting. I also came upon an
article on power rankings in the NFL provided by one of my favorites, Brian
Billick.
He has listed the teams and I see he believes all 4 of the
NFC North are in the top 18 in the NFL.
The rankings:
1) San
Francisco
2) Denver
3) Seattle
4) Atlanta
5) Baltimore
6) New
England
7) Green
Bay
8) Houston
9) Cincinnati
10) Minnesota
11) Chicago
18) Detroit
It is so nice to see the Vikings getting some national
support. We have a tough schedule and will play in a tough division.
As I write this article on Wednesday May 8 the first game of
the season will be on Sunday September 8th in Detroit. It is hard to
believe 4 months until we kick it off.
Thanks for reading
Purplestick
Source: Foxsports.com
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