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• Jeff Gladney’s signing wraps up Vikings’ draft class

  23-07-2020 23:07
  
  It is finished. The Vikings have all 15 members of their draft class under contract, the team announced Thursday. The 15 draft picks are the most by one team in a seven-round draft in NFL history. Minnesota’s draft class broke a seven-round draft record of 14 selections made by the 1997 Dolphins and 2016 Browns. [more]
  
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• Vikings sign Kenny Willekes, leaving just one unsigned pick

  23-07-2020 22:04
  
  The Vikings are down to one unsigned pick. And when you start with 15, that’s saying something. Per a tweet from his agents, Vikings seventh-rounder Kenny Willekes has signed his four-year rookie deal. The defensive end from Michigan State, a former walk-on, was chosen 225th overall. That leaves just first-round cornerback Jeff Gladney without a [more]
  
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• Browns hire Kevin Rogers as senior offensive assistant

  23-07-2020 20:16
  
  The Browns added another coach to Kevin Stefanski’s staff ahead of training camp. The team announced that Kevin Rogers has been hired as a senior offensive assistant. Rogers was hired as the quarterbacks coach for the Vikings from 2006 and Stefanski joined the organization the same year as an assistant to then-head coach Brad Childress. [more]
  
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• Harrison Hand, Brian Cole agree to contracts with Vikings

  23-07-2020 19:54
  
  Using fifteen draft picks in April left the Vikings with a lot of contracts to get done with their rookie class and they’re almost done with their work. Agent Leigh Steinberg announced that fifth-round cornerback Harrison Hand has agreed to a four-year deal with the team. Chris Tomasson of the Pioneer Press reports that seventh-round [more]
  
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• Cameron Dantzler, Josh Metellus sign with Vikings

  23-07-2020 18:35
  The Vikings are steadily making their way toward getting all 15 of their draft picks under contract. Nine of the picks signed with the team by the end of the day on Wednesday and two more have agreed to deals on Thursday. Third-round cornerback Cameron Dantzler announced his signing on Twitter and agent Drew Rosenhaus [more]
  
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• Adam Thielen: WR group will be different but good without Stefon Diggs

  23-07-2020 17:28
  
  Next week’s start to training camp will give the Vikings their first chance to gather together as a team since the end of the 2019 season and it will also be their first chance to work together since the trade of Stefon Diggs. Dealing the wide receiver to Buffalo netted the Vikings a first-round pick [more]
  
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• Vikings’ Ifeadi Odenigbo says he prepared for empty stadiums at Northwestern

  23-07-2020 15:30
  
  Vikings defensive end Ifeadi Odenigbo says he has an advantage when it comes to preparing to play in an empty stadium. Odenigbo noted that he played his college football at Northwestern, where the attendance was typically near the bottom among programs in the Power 5 conferences in college football. “People keep asking me ‘hey Ifeadi [more]
  
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• Vikings agree to terms with nine draft choices

  23-07-2020 01:09
  
  The Vikings had a lot of work to do in getting their draft picks agreed to terms. They have 15 of them. The Vikings have signed seventh-rounder Nate Stanley and have at least eight others agreed to terms. First-rounder Justin Jefferson, second-rounder Ezra Cleveland, fourth-rounders D.J. Wonnum, James Lynch and Troy Dye, fifth-rounder K.J. Osborn, [more]
  
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