The Minnesota Vikings are in the home stretch of the preseason and with a trip to Buffalo on the docket to face the Bills on Thursday night, the Vikings are close to escaping the preseason without any crippling developments or injuries.
By tradition, the fourth preseason game is the most meaningless of the group and features teams trying to be as vanilla as possible schematically and protecting as many key players as they can. For those on the roster bubble, however, Thursday’s game could be the difference between landing on the active roster, being placed on the practice squad, or not having a job at all.