The Trenches presents team reports, focused on the NFL draft, from Sporting News' 32 NFL correspondents.
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With one week left before the draft begins, teams are in lockdown mode. Boards are being finalized, those last…
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No, Brett Favre cannot offer the Minnesota Vikings an answer on whether or not he'll play football in 2010,…
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The Minnesota Vikings have re-signed restricted free agent fullback Naufahu Tahi. The Vikings said Tahi signed his contract tender on Tuesday. The fifth-year veteran has been primarily a blocker for running back Adrian Peterson and a special teams player with the Vikings. Tahi caught 10 passes for 67 yards and a touchdown out of the backfield.
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What are the pros and cons of this year’s top defensive tackle prospects Ndamukong Suh and Gerald McCoy?
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – The Minnesota Vikings have re-signed restricted free agents Ryan Cook, Fred Evans and Eric Frampton.
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The Minnesota Vikings have re-signed restricted free agents Ryan Cook, Fred Evans and Eric Frampton. Evans is a key backup at defensive tackle behind starters Kevin and Pat Williams. He will earn almost $1.8 million after signing the second-round tender the team placed on him. Cook is a swing player on the offensive line, with the ability to play guard, center and tackle.
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Minnesota Vikings linebacker Ben Leber obviously can't say for sure whether quarterback Brett Favre is…
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The use of public dollars for sports stadiums isn't always the most popular thing for American taxpayers,…
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While the Vikings continue to wait for Brett Favre to decide if he will return for the 2010 season, they evidently have lost out on the opportunity to get Donovan McNabb as his possible successor.

At least for the short term.

McNabb, who is being shopped by Philadelphia, reportedly has told the Eagles that if he is going to be traded his first choice was to play for the Vikings.

This makes sense because of McNabb’s familiarity with Vikings coach Brad Childress and quarterbacks coach Kevin Rogers.

McNabb and Childress arrived in Philadelphia in 1999—Childress was the Eagles’ quarterbacks coach and later offensive coordinator—and McNabb knows Rogers very well from their time together at Syracuse.

McNabb also is from the Chicago area and…
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