Vikings Draft Pick at Tight End Now Working for NFC Rival

Lately, there has been a steady stream of former Vikings going to work for the Atlanta Falcons.

Kirk Cousins was the most prominent from recent history but the well-paid quarterback wasn’t alone. In fact, the current head coach in Atlanta, Kevin Stefanski, got his start as a low-level Vikings employee before becoming an impressive offensive coordinator. The Falcons’ skipper welcomed a former Vikings draft pick to town.

Vikings Draft Pick Lands in ATL

As he often does, KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson offered the news: “#Falcons sign Nick Muse, Trey Sermon, waived Le’Meke Brockington, Malik Verdon.”

In Muse, the Falcons are getting a tight end in the middle of his prime. He boasts pretty decent size (6’5″ & 252 pounds) and a quirky personality. His NFL career began by getting scooped up at No. 227 overall in the 2022 NFL Draft. He’s now among the ten draft picks from that crew of talent to no longer be in town.

Journey around the Minnesota area. While doing so, try to find Vikings fans with concerns about the recent draft efforts. Do you anticipate much difficulty? Bringing ten young lads to town and then not seeing a single one sign a second contract is a poor outcome.

In Atlanta, Nick Muse will be looking to compete from within the group of tight ends listed below:

• Kyle Pitts Sr.
• Austin Hooper
• Joshua Simon
• Jack Veiling
• Charlie Woerner
• Nick Muse

NFL teams pretty normally carry a trio of tight ends. Often, there are four kept around, especially with fullback being out of fashion in the NFL (not so in Minnesota). Muse has zero chance of overcoming Pitts, but he could plausibly snuggle into the TE3 or TE4 job.

His career has featured being involved sixteen games. The stats are modest: a single catch for 22 yards. Muse’s tally shows 19 snaps on offense and 184 snaps on special teams.

So far, Muse has worked for the Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams, New York Jets, Detroit Lions, and now the Atlanta Falcons. He can most commonly be found on the practice squad.

In a weird twist of fate, Nick Muse won the Super Bowl while working for the Eagles.

Other former Vikings to be working for the Falcons include corner Mike Hughes and guard Kyle Hinton. Maybe unsurprisingly, Cousins is still on Atlanta’s books, showing up in $22.5 million in dead money. That’s the third-largest cap charge on Atlanta’s books for the upcoming season, per Over the Cap. Muse is listed as carrying a modest $1,145,000 cap charge.

Nick Muse is 27.

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