Vikings are signing WR Kendall Wright, sources tell me and @TomPelissero. Had 59 catches for the Bears last year, now heads to their NFC North rival as a target for Kirk Cousins.

We need a guy in that role. I don't think DAT is dat guy.

Gah football news/talk is sooo slow right now, 27 days is gonna seem like a damn year...

Not really. This is the first time I've not been too excited about the draft. We already have our Christmas present from last year.

Thats a good way to look at it, but I'm still anxious about the spots we have that need upgraded and wondering just how aggressive Veach is gonna be in going about fixing that...

Corner is pathetically, perilously thin
DL needs quality depth and a push/possible replacement for Bailey
FS needs a better starter
O line needs help, as evidenced by Veach apparently shopping around for centers

With the depth of the CB class, somebody is gonna get a CB or 2 with better quality than they expected from the draft. I bet that leads to a couple starters hitting FA after the draft...maybe a couple good ones are available vie trade that interest Veach, too.

Same goes for safeties.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vikings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Vikings</a> are expected to release WR Kendall Wright, source said. They signed him in March as an option in the slot, but Laquon Treadwell’s strong preseason allowed Adam Thielen to move inside more. Odd man out.</p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1035962223292829696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Kendall wright would be terrific for this offense. We still don't have a true replacement for Albert wilson. Sign Wright, cut DAT. We have plenty of receivers better than Wilson, don't get me wrong. But I want someone other than tyreek to run the jet sweeps and sprint routes.

I would take Kendall Wright over DAT on this team in a heartbeat.

Does he play special teams? If not, what's the advantage in signing him over DAT? The only way they would get more than a couple snaps on offense per game is if at least 2 WRs get injured. So I'd rather have the one with special teams value.
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would be good, we are going to have to score a ton of points to win games this year and there isn't going to be any game changers on defense that we'll be able to get.

DAT is the only guy on our roster currently who can play the Albert wilson role. Kendall wright is miles better. I've seen nothing from DAT that makes me think he can play receiver. With our vertical offense, we have tons of great opportunities for short sprint routes and underneath stuff. Wright fills that void nicely.

Thomas is Reid's buddy, not going to happen.