Starting lineups were just announced for Vikings-49ers and there’s one surprise for Minnesota: Andrew Sendejo will be starting at safety instead of Robert Blanton.
It was believed that Blanton had locked down the starting safety job in preseason but evidently that belief was erroneous.
Blanton probably didn’t help his case much by taking bad angles on a pair of busted plays in the final two preseason games.
Those plays aside, Blanton is generally considered to be a better coverage safety than Sendejo.
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So why Sendejo instead of Blanton?