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Baker Mayfield - QB - SoonersOklahoma redshirt senior QB Baker Mayfield was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year.

Mayfield also came away with the honor back in 2015. Perhaps the Heisman Trophy favorite -- we still like Lamar Jackson as deserving but there just hasn't been the same excitement around him this season as there was a year ago -- the redshirt senior has thrown for 4,097 yards (71.4-percent completions) with a 37/5 TD/INT ratio for the regular season. He's had his minor moments of non-football infamy this season (planting the flag after a win over Ohio State, his vaguely NSFW acts against Kansas) but there have been no signs that those incidents will have any impact on his chances for big-time hardware.
I see Keenum with more arm talent...sign Case to a deal similar to Glennon...let Baker marinate behind Keenum...but, there will be a couple safeties around this spot that would look good here...top end G too...

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Minnesota’s past two starting quarterbacks, tacit or otherwise, were knocked out for the season by knee injuries, Teddy Bridgewater in August 2016, Sam Bradford this season for the third time in his career. That uncertainty is what pulled Keenum, an on-and-off starter in five-plus seasons.
That might be reason enough not to anoint Keenum the permanent starter. The Vikings have two franchise quarterbacks on the roster and neither is the guy leading the team to its best season in years. Bridgewater, for whom the Vikings traded up in the 2014 NFL Draft, is now a backup who hasn’t played in anything but an exhibition since a memorably cold afternoon in January 2016.
Minnesota controls its own fate in the division and holds playoff tiebreakers on the Rams (8-3) and New Orleans Saints (8-3). Heavy lifting remains, but victories over the Falcons (7-4) and Carolina Panthers (8-3) the next two weeks would set the stage for a final boss meeting in the playoffs with the Philadelphia Eagles, 10-1 and winners of nine straight.
With a path to the NFC Championship game and little room for error, Zimmer’s hesitance to pass his quarterback a valentine in public seems prudent. Frankly, Zimmer probably should still be eating the same thing for breakfast that he had Oct. 9 in Chicago, the day Keenum relieved an immobile Bradford in a 20-17 victory.
The Vikings haven’t lost since, and Keenum remains week to week while playing the best football of his career: 2,476 passing yards with 14 touchdowns, five interceptions and a 96.2 QB rating.
“I never said Bradford was the starter for the season,” Zimmer said. “Everybody assumed it, but I don’t know that I have to say that.”


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Before the season, Vikings receiver Laquon Treadwell said he had some personal goals. He provided only a ballpark figure on his targeted number of receptions this season.
“Whether it’s 30, 50 catches, whatever,” he said.
With five games left in the season, Treadwell isn’t even halfway to 30. The second-year player has 14 receptions for 152 yards, but any frustration has been tempered by Minnesota’s 9-2 record.
“Of course I would love more targets,” Treadwell said Wednesday. “Of course I would love the ball in my hands, but we’re winning and things are going good, so you can’t fix what’s going right. You’ve just got to keep playing your role and be patient and just keep learning.”

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Two years ago, Latavius Murray rushed for 1,026 yards for Oakland and made the Pro Bowl. He claims to be a better player now.
Murray got off to a slow start in his first season with the Vikings, but there have been few complaints about his play lately. Over the past five games, Murray has rushed for 399 of his 496 yards on the season, including 179 in the past two games.
“I think so,’’ Murray said Wednesday about being better than in 2015. “I think I’m continuing to get better each year. Each year I’ve been in the league, that’s my goal has been to try to get better even if it’s just a little bit, and I think I’ve been able to do that.’’
Murray, 27, said a key to his improvement has been in the mental part of the game.
“I think I’m getting smarter the older I get,’’ said Murray, averaging 3.8 yards per carry on the season. “I know as I get older, obviously my body gets older, and I think I just need to continue the mental part of it, and that allows me to go out and play fast.”
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At this time last year, Minnesota Vikings general manager Rick Spielman was on a conference call with the Twin Cities media announcing that head coach Mike Zimmer would not be on the sidelines for the Vikings’ Thursday night matchup against the Dallas Cowboys because of an emergency eye surgery for a detached retina. One year later, Zimmer’s eye is stable – though it’s still affecting his accuracy while hunting.
“I have to hunt left-handed because I can’t see the peephole in my bow,” Zimmer said. “I can’t see distance… I use a scope and I shoot lefty now.
The Vikings’ head coach wore had eight surgeries in total. This offseason the team required him to take some time off during OTAs, where he still watching practice and communicated with players.
“I don’t think it will get any better, but I don’t think it will get any worse,” Zimmer said Thursday.
As for the exact amount of vision remaining, Zimmer said:
“I have some blind spots in my eye, so when I look and I’m reading the chart, I have to [move around]…Some days I get it 60/80, some days it’s 20/5. They count it if you get a couple of letters on that line, but I kind of have to peek. I have to have a contact in, too.”
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Josh Gordon - WR - BrownsBrowns coach Hue Jackson said Josh Gordon will start in his 2017 debut this weekend.

Gordon will be playing in his first regular season game since Dec. 21, 2014. He did play in the 2016 preseason. Still only 26, Gordon has youth and freak athleticism on his side as he returns from his nearly three-year layoff. He will obviously be rusty against the Chargers' Casey Hayward-led secondary, and not ready for a full complement of snaps. Corey Coleman should lead the receiver corps in targets. Gordon is best treated as a "mystery" WR4.