Angel Reese received her eighth technical foul during the Atlanta Dream’s 101-83 loss to the Portland Fire on Friday and will be suspended for the team’s matchup with the league-leading Minnesota Lynx on Sunday unless it is rescinded by the league. Reese finished Friday’s defeat with 16 points, 16 rebounds and six assists, but shot just 5 of 14 from the field. 

Under WNBA rules, a player or coach is automatically suspended without pay for one game upon receiving an eighth technical foul during the regular season. The previous limit was seven technicals, but the league increased it to eight last season with the jump to a 44-game schedule. For every two additional technical fouls received, the player or coach will be automatically suspended for an additional game.

Early in the fourth quarter, Reese got tangled up with Fire point guard Carla Leite during a box-out situation. Reese appeared to push down on Leite’s head/neck area, while Leite had her arm wrapped around Reese’s back. As the two started to separate, Reese gave a little shove and was called for a technical. 

If the league does not rescind Reese’s technical, this will be the second consecutive season that she has been suspended for crossing the technical foul threshold. She led the league in technicals last season with eight, and served a one-game suspension in what turned out to be her final campaign with the Chicago Sky. 

Reese now once again leads the league in technicals. Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark has also been called for eight technicals this season, but she had her most recent one rescinded by the league, and thus avoided a suspension and still sits at seven. Clark and Phoenix Mercury guard Kahleah Copper are both one technical away from suspension. 

Notably, technical foul counts reset after the regular season. 

Most technicals in the WNBA in 2026

Reese would be huge loss vs. Lynx as Dream fight for seeding

If Reese is suspended for Sunday’s game against the Lynx, that would be a major loss for the Dream, who are in a battle for seeding in the middle of the playoff picture. 

Atlanta entered Friday in fourth place, half a game behind the third-place Las Vegas Aces and half a game ahead of the fifth-place Fever. Due to their defeat and the Fever’s win (the Aces will play later on Friday), the Dream have now dropped to fifth place and are just one game up on the sixth-place Washington Mystics, who own the tiebreaker between the clubs. 

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Without Reese, who recently set the single-game rebounding record and has been playing some of the best basketball of her career, the Dream would have real trouble beating the Lynx, who are eager to lock up the No. 1 overall seed. 

At Vikings Territory, every effort is made to ensure our readers stay informed on what’s taking place within the world of Vikings news.

This week’s offering of content has talked about J.J. McCarthy (on at least a few occasions). So, too, has there been discussion of the cuts, adds, a suspension, position switch, and various other items. Take a look at some of the other things to have come through the NFL’s headlines.

Vikings News Tracker | Friday, August 28th, 2026

Zeke Correll Gets Another Shot

Growing up, my parents would tell me that there’s no such thing as a money tree. Can the same be said of an offensive line tree? The Eagles do remarkably well of developing the large lads. Is there some sort of magical tree down in the City of Brotherly Love?

If so, then Zeke Correll landed in a good spot.

Check out the update from Philly’s social media: “We signed C Zeke Correll and WR Brandon Hayes. We also placed Tariq Castro-Fields on the Injured Reserve List and waived/injured WR Johnny Wilson.”

Note that former Vikings OL coach Chris Kuper is now the OL coach with the Eagles. He’ll know Correll from their shared time in the Twin Cities.

Daniel Carlson is Back in Action

Once upon a time, the Minnesota Vikings could have taken down the Green Bay Packers. The issue is that the rookie kicker — Daniel Carlson — was snakebitten that day, missing several kicks as the Vikings finished off at a tie. Mike Zimmer moved on shortly thereafter.

The specialist then went to the Raiders, doing tremendous while there. Carlson was an All Pro in 2021 and 2022.

Mike Garafolo of The NFL Network sent along the news Carlson landing with the Saints alongside some background on what’s taking place: “The former #Raiders kicker brings experience to New Orleans, which had been holding a competition between Tanner Brown and Charlie Smyth.”

If the football gods want to be especially cruel, then maybe Carlson will power the Saints to a victory over the Vikings someday.

Kirk Cousins Rides Again (Probably)

Kirk Cousins (former Vikings QB) is probably going to be the Raiders’ Week 1 starter. Klint Kubiak (former Vikings OC) is still being a touch coy, though.

The update from Mike Garafolo of The NFL Network: “They used to play six preseason games. Soon, they’ll play two. For now, it’s three and Klint Kubiak makes it clear Fernando Mendoza could use more work. Still not naming a #Raiders starting QB but everything Kubiak has said for months has pointed to Kirk Cousins Week 1.”

The Minnesota Vikings and Las Vegas Raiders aren’t scheduled to play each other in the upcoming season. However, the two teams are theoretically possible for a Super Bowl matchup. How wild would that be?

Former Vikings Corner Gets Scooped Up

Ian Rapoport sends along the news that corner Mekhi Blackmon has landed on his feet. Check out the news: “The #Browns claimed CB Mekhi Blackmon via waivers from the #Colts.”

The Vikings drafted Blackmon in the 3rd Round of the 2023 NFL Draft. He did well as a rookie before missing his sophomore season due to injury. He then got shown the door, leading to the Colts moving on and the Browns adding him.

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The Minnesota Vikings head to Mile High to take on the Denver Broncos for their final preseason game. The season will start for real in two weeks.

3 Things That Need To Improve in the Vikings Final Preseason Game

The first two games of the Vikings’ preseason were both low-scoring games, where the defense looked to be continuing from where they left off last season (but slightly worryingly, so has the offense). Here are three things that I would like to see improve in the Vikings’ final preseason game.

The Run Game

We haven’t seen the starting offensive line or Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason since early in the game against the Giants. Minnesota did run the ball well with Jones having three rushes for 27 yards and Mason three rushes for 17 yards. That does come with the caveat that the Giants were shorthanded in the middle of their defensive line that day, but the Vikings did well to take advantage. Demond Claiborne was unable to have the same success with 12 rushes for 34 yards. 

We also saw the all-too-familiar failure to punch the ball in at the goal line, with Claiborne rushing three times for no gain. Minnesota was saved by a couple of penalty flags and an excellent throw and catch between Carson Wentz and Myles Price. Claiborne struggled again against a good Baltimore Ravens defense, while Zavier Scott got more opportunities and averaged a respectable 4 yards per carry. The rushing attack has always been the poor complement to Kevin O’Connell’s passing attack since he became Vikings head coach, but we need to see improvement.

I have confidence in the starting offensive line – outside of the center position – but as we saw last season injuries happen and the backup players need to show they can at least be physical and keep the run game intact. Likewise, Jones is at the stage of his career where injuries have become a regular occurrence. Scott and Claiborne need to be ready to step up; both have the chance to stake their claim as the next in line during the final preseason game.

Special Teams Penalties

If you are anything like me, the sight of those yellow penalty flags on what seemed like every Vikings punt return last season probably drove you to the brink of insanity. Every time it looked like a good return had us in some good field position, there was the yellow marker and we were marching backwards. It’s something that has to improve this season and the early signs from the preseason outings are not good.

I have already seen enough of it this preseason that I’m wondering what efforts have actually been made to remedy this very obvious problem from last season. Special teams coordinator Matt Daniels should be under pressure to fix this problem and I want to see a clean game in Denver to at least alleviate some of my fears that this is going to be a major issue again. Minnesota has some talent returned in Price and Tai Felton but they are being rendered almost useless because of penalty flags.

Score Some Points

It’s only the preseason and the results don’t matter. With the majority of what will be the Vikings starters sitting out most of the preseason games, it’s mostly about players fighting for the final roster places. However, watching the Vikings offense struggle to put points on the board hasn’t exactly been fun. With just 13 points against the Giants and 3 points against the Ravens, that’s a combined 16 points over two games. A paltry effort by any standards.

While there have been standout moments from young players on the defense, there has been a lot of struggle on offense. Price has been one exception, but the QB play hasn’t been great, the backup offensive linemen have really struggled, and the rushing attack hasn’t got anything going. It doesn’t lead to much confidence in these backup players if they are required to step up once the regular season has started. I want to see the offense firing whoever is on the field.

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On Sunday afternoon, Texas’ and Nebraska’s women’s volleyball teams will face each in the regular season for the first time in a decade. There wasn’t this kind of gap between matches before, however: the Longhorns and Huskers have an intense rivalry spanning decades, tied in part to the creation of the Big 12. At the Players Era Volleyball Showcase in Las Vegas on Aug. 30, the two will jump right into the new season by renewing that rivalry.

Nebraska and Texas had their first meeting back in 1981, less than 10 years after each program had begun, and just like on Sunday, it was hosted in neutral territory. The two played a pair of matches in the Oral Roberts Invitational on Oct. 17, with Texas winning both: the Longhorns would eventually be crowned the 1981 champions in the final season playing under the Associate for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women banner (AIAW), while the Huskers’ program was already part of the NCAA at this point; 1981 would mark the lone campaign that the team wasn’t invited to the 20-team NCAA Division I tournament at the end of the regular season, and this despite its fourth-straight unbeaten season in Big 8 conference play.

Senior Bergen Reilly, Nebraska’s star setter, is on the 2026 preseason watch list for AVCA’s Player of the Year honors. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)

In the 1982 Oklahoma Invitational, Nebraska would collect its first win against Texas, 3-1, but that would be the last victory for the Huskers against the Longhorns until Nov. 5, 1988 — both teams were already powerhouses by then, with Nebraska losing in the national championship in 1986 to Pacific, and Texas winning its second title later in ‘88. Nebraska would once again lose the national championship game in 1989, this time to Long Beach State — it took until 1995 for that to change… and against Texas.

That squad, led by First-Team All-American and American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Co-Player of the Year Allison Weston, was playing for more than just a championship in the moment. It was also playing for bragging rights within a soon-to-be-formed conference. For the 1995 championship, Nebraska was representing the Big 8, and Texas the Southwest Conference, but that was a temporary arrangement: Texas was one of four schools that had committed, back in Feb. 1994, to join the Big 8 and make it the Big 12 in 1996. Nebraska and Texas, two mainstays of women’s volleyball in the midwest, two of the teams that had shown the sport could thrive outside of the West Coast, would now be in the same conference vying for supremacy.

Nebraska won 31 straight matches to end the season: the Huskers won the opening game, lost the second to Stanford, and then didn’t taste failure again. Texas was the No. 2 team in the country and had won its two previous national championship games, while Nebraska was hoping that, for the Huskers, the third time would be the charm. It was, and now these two would be in the same conference going forward.

Texas’ 2023 national championship came at the expense of longtime rivals, Nebraska, just like the Huskers’ first title in 1995 went through Texas. (Photo by C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

And what a run the pair had in the Big 12. Nebraska would win the conference in 1996. Texas would win it in ‘97. The Huskers would then take it in 1998 through 2002, and again from 2004 through 2006 — this stretch was interrupted by a single Big 12 regular season championship by Kansas State, but flanking that were a pair of Nebraska national championships, in 2000 and 2006. In 2007 and 2008, Texas and Nebraska tied for conference championship, then the Longhorns won it outright in ‘09. The Huskers would once again come out on top in 2010 — it was their final year in the Big 12, as now it was their turn to switch conferences. Nebraska joined up with the Big Ten in 2011, and remains there to this day.

With Nebraska gone, Texas, somewhat unsurprisingly, dominated the Big 12 in the Huskers’ absence. The Longhorns won 12 of 13 Big 12 conference regular season titles before leaving for the SEC in 2024, with national championships in 2012, 2022 and 2023 and three national title losses, as well. That 2023 championship came against Nebraska, which the Longhorns also defeated in the regional final in the delayed 2020 season as well as in 2021 — the two no longer had conference games, but still played the occasional non-conference matchup and faced each other on the sports’ biggest stage on multiple occasions. 

All-time, the two have been evenly matched, with Nebraska ahead 25-23 thanks to dominating in Big 12 conference play, 2-12, making up for the initial losing streaks to the Longhorns in the 80s. The pendulum has swung back in Texas’ direction, though, with the Longhorns winning seven of the last 10 matchups between the two.

Only one of Nebraska or Texas could come out on top in the Big 12, and more often than not it was the Huskers. (Corbey R. Dorsey/NCAA Photos via Getty Images photos)

Nebraska had its own post-Big 12 success even if direct competition against Texas hasn’t gone as well of late, becoming national champions in 2015 and 2017, while losing in the 2018, 2021 and 2023 championship matches. The Huskers were the favorite for the 2025 title, and came into the regional final against Texas A&M undefeated before the Aggies upset them and ended their season, as well as the chance to be the second-ever Nebraska squad to achieve an undefeated championship season, joining the 2000s Huskers. Maybe not coincidentally, the last two undefeated teams standing in Division I last season were Texas and Nebraska, with the Longhorns losing on Halloween to … Texas A&M.

Texas’ 2023 victory over Nebraska for the national championship marks the last time the two have faced each other, though, until this weekend, when the No. 2 Longhorns and No. 1 Huskers square off. There is the rivalry to consider, as well as the shocking way 2025 ended for both: both teams lost in their respective regional finals in significant upsets, with 1-seed Nebraska falling to 6-seed Texas A&M and 1-seed Texas to 10-seed Wisconsin. A win against a longtime rival — one the other hasn’t seen in a few years now — would help to wash away the taste of that defeat. But as has so often been the case with the Longhorns and Huskers, only one of these teams is going to walk away on top.

Northern Illinois went west, Sacramento State moved east and the Pac-12 is actually back. 

Ahead of the 2026 college football season, 22 teams changed conferences. Five of the Group of Six leagues experienced changeover, while the Power 4 remained the same. 

But two years ago, UCLA, USC, Oregon and Washington joined the Big Ten; Arizona, ASU, Utah and Colorado went to the Big 12; and Stanford and Cal became members of the ACC. Then in 2025, three more teams changed conferences. 

Now, ahead of the 2026 season, let’s do it again. 

To help you keep up with the trends, and remember who each team will compete against for conference titles, here’s a look at who came, who went and who remained in each FBS conference. 

Additions: Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Texas State, Utah State

Holdovers: Oregon State, Washington State

After a season in which Washington State and Oregon State were the only two teams representing the Pac-12, the conference has expanded to eight Division I football schools. Colorado State, Utah State, San Diego State, Fresno State and Boise State came over from the Mountain West. Texas State also made the move to the Pac-12 from the Sun Belt Conference. The Pac-12 will include nine schools for college basketball season as Gonzaga came over from the West Coast Conference, but doesn’t have a football program.

Boise State and San Diego State are two of five Mountain West teams to join the Pac-12. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune via Getty Images)

Additions: North Dakota State, Northern Illinois, University of Texas-El Paso, 

Holdovers: Air Force, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming 

Losses: Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State

After losing five teams to the Pac-12, the Mountain West was replenished with three teams from different conferences. North Dakota State is the headliner. The 10-time FCS national champions come over from the Missouri Valley Football Conference for its debut season in the FBS. Northern Illinois enters from the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and University of Texas-El Paso transfers from Conference USA. 

After 80 years in the MAC, Northern Illinois moved to the Mountain West. (Photo by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Additions: Sacramento State

Holdovers: Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Miami (OH), Kent State, Ohio, Toledo, UMass, Western Michigan

Losses: Northern Illinois

The changes to the MAC are simple. Northern Illinois moves to the Mountain West and Sacramento State replaces them, keeping the total at 13. Sacramento State comes over from the Big Sky Conference. 

Additions: Louisiana Tech

Holdovers: Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, James Madison, Louisiana, Louisiana Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Old Dominion, South Alabama, Southern Mississippi, Troy

Losses: Texas State

Similar to the MAC, the Sun Belt made a one-for-one trade. Texas State joined the Pac-12 and Louisiana Tech replaced them from Conference USA, keeping the Sun Belt’s total at 14.

Holdovers: Delaware, FIU, Jackson State, Liberty, Kennessaw State, Middle Tennessee, Missouri State, New Mexico State, Sam Houston State, Western Kentucky

Losses: Louisiana Tech, UTEP

Conference USA lost Louisiana Tech and University of Texas-El Paso, and did not replace them as their total dropped from 12 to 10 members.

Holdovers: Army, Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic, Memphis, Navy, North Texas, Rice, South Florida, Temple, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UTSA

The AAC remained the same heading into the 2026 college football season. It produced a CFP team last year as Tulane earned the 11th seed in the 12-team bracket. Charlotte, FAU, North Texas, Rice, UAB and UTSA joined the AAC as recently as 2023 as the conference has expanded to 14 teams for football. 

While the Power 4 conferences also avoided any change heading into the 2026 season, it’s still worth refreshing who’s where. 

Holdovers: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, Washington, and Wisconsin

The Big Ten didn’t experience any change ahead of the 2026 season. The 2026 season marks the third season in which former Pac-12 schools Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington will compete in the 18-team Big Ten. 

Oregon and Washington went from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten ahead of the 2024 season. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

Holdovers: Arizona, Arizona State, Baylor, BYU, Cincinnati, Colorado, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, UCF, Utah, and West Virginia

The Big 12 didn’t add or lose any teams heading into the 2026 season. The 2026 season marks the third year in which former Pac-12 schools Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah joined the league. It’s also the fourth year of BYU, Cincinnati, UCF and Houston coming over to the Big 12 as the conference has expanded to 16 teams. 

Holdovers: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt

The SEC didn’t experience any change ahead of the 2026 season. This will be the third season in which Oklahoma and Texas compete in the conference after coming over from the Big 12 to make a 16-team league. 

Holdovers: Boston College, Cal, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest

The ACC didn’t make any moves ahead of the 2026 season. The 2026 season will be the third year in which Stanford and Cal compete in the 17-team ACC. 

The Denver Broncos and Minnesota Vikings will square off in the final preseason game for both teams. We don’t expect much in the way of snaps from starters tonight, but a lot of these players are having their last chance to make a case for a roster spot – whether on the final 53 or the 16-man practice squad. Week 1 is officially just around the corner, Broncos Country!

Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. Mile High time on Friday, August 28, 2026 at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado. You can also check local Broncos radio network affiliate stations. Join the discussion in the comments section below.

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The 2026 Tour Championship continues on Saturday with the third round at East Lake Golf Club. You can find full Tour Championship tee times for Saturday’s third round at the bottom of this post.

Tour Championship Round 3 tee times: What to know

Viktor Hovland missed the fairway on 3 at East Lake Golf Club. And 12. 

And that was it on Friday during the Tour Championship’s second round. Afterward, a reporter called him “a fairway-finding machine.” And the reporter wanted the scoop on how Hovland was doing it. 

Only Hovland couldn’t help. 

“Great question,” he said. “Don’t even know, but I found something that seems to be going straight, so very happy with that.”

Indeed. Along with hitting 12 of 14 fairways on Friday, Hovland shot a four-under 66, and he’s tied for the lead entering Saturday’s third round. There, he said he hopes whatever appeared Friday reappears Saturday. It’s not the best place to be, but if “something” somehow shows up again, he won’t turn it away.  

“It’s just what’s kind of annoying is, if I have a good feeling, I would be able to sustain it week in and week out,” Hovland said. “Now I haven’t been doing that. Like last week, I drove it awful. The week before, not so great either. It’s not like I’ve changed too much since those last few weeks, but I’m driving it better this week. So you’ve just got to take advantage of it.

“Then hopefully when I have some time off, I can really get to work.”

You can watch Saturday’s third round of the 2026 Tour Championship from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. ET on Golf Channel, and then 3-7 p.m. ET on CBS. PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ will provide exclusive early streaming coverage starting at 12:15 p.m. ET on Saturday, in addition to featured group and featured hole coverage.

Check out the complete Round 3 tee times and pairings for the Tour Championship below.

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2026 Tour Championship tee times for Saturday: Round 3 (ET)

Tee No. 1

11:55 a.m. – Robert MacIntyre 

12:07 p.m. – Kristoffer Reitan, Hideki Matsuyama 

12:19 p.m. – Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele 

12:31 p.m. – Si Woo Kim, Rory McIlroy 

12:43 p.m. – Wyndham Clark, Tommy Fleetwood 

1:01 p.m. – Min Woo Lee, Alex Fitzpatrick 

1:13 p.m. – Alex Smalley, Tom Kim 

1:25 p.m. – Russell Henley, Jacob Bridgeman

1:37 p.m. – Ryan Fox, Akshay Bhatia 

1:49 p.m. – Sam Burns, Gary Woodland 

2:07 p.m. – Adam Scott, Ludvig Åberg 

2:19 p.m. – Justin Rose, Matt Fitzpatrick 

2:31 p.m. – Cameron Young, Scottie Scheffler 

2:43 p.m. – Collin Morikawa, Chris Gotterup 

2:55 p.m. – Ryan Gerard Viktor Hovland

GM Nolan Teasley is probably going to have some opportunity to pull off a trade or two over these next few days. At the very least, the Vikings’ cap space and draft picks will allow for an addition(s) if a compelling trade possibility emerges.

Teams around the NFL are moving into a tough weekend. What has been a 90-player roster is going to get shrunk down to 53 players. As Kevin Patra points out, there are going to be close to 1,200 players who are told to pack their bags. Pretty reasonably, teams will seek to add value out of player departures when possible, trying to pull off a trade before needing to accept a cut. Could the Vikings actually accommodate some swaps?

The Vikings’ Cap Space and Draft Picks

At least a few things are needed to pull off a trade.

Most obvious, perhaps, is that there needs to be at least a pair of teams willing to pull off a deal. During cut weekend, there’s going to be no shortage of sellers for the Vikings to consider. Every single team has dozens of players who are getting shown the door; extracting value by recouping a pick(s) for one of these players is a better outcome than moving on for no value coming back. So, that end of things shouldn’t be an issue.

What remains to be seen is if the Vikings will want to be buyers. If so, then they’ll at least have the assets to bring talent to town.

Over the Cap explains that the cap space is a reasonably rotund $22.4 million. Upon first glance, Minnesota is sitting in a really healthy spot, but do note that the cap space will shrink down after the offseason’s top-51 cutoff gets lifted.

Still, though, there’s going to be enough open cap space to bring in talent. Think a touch below $20 million with the potential to create significantly more if the Vikings venture into extensions (see: Van Ginkel, Andrew).

Next up are assets. Sometimes, NFL teams do the player-for-player thing that appears to be more common in hockey, but picks are often the preferred currency in football trades. Minnesota is sitting atop a good cluster for the 2027 NFL Draft (credit to Spotrac):

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd
• 3rd (Jonathan Greenard Trade)
• 5th
• 5th
• 6th
• 6th (Jalen Nailor Compensatory Pick)
• 7th

The Nailor 6th is a likelihood rather than a certainty. Minnesota has some cap nerds in the front office who specialize on the issue, so they’ll have a very good educated guess on how likely that Nailor pick is. The point here isn’t that the Vikings can send this pick out; they can’t do so since it hasn’t been awarded yet. What can occur, though, is a bit more freedom with the other 6th due to the expectation of seeing the Nailor comp pick arrive before the ’27 draft.

Later on today, the Minnesota Vikings will take on the Denver Broncos in the third and final preseason game. All eyes will be on the quarterbacks. Afterwards, Minnesota will need to begin sorting through the carnage that is roster cuts.

Presumably, teams are calling about acquiring J.J. McCarthy. Presumably, the Vikings are calling other teams about acquiring players who could fill an unfilled role on Minnesota’s roster.

The Vikings play the Green Bay Packers in Week 1. That game occurs on Sunday, September 13th. Much remains to be determined between now and then.

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