For two months, Minnesota Vikings fans have wondered what the team’s 2023 RB room would entail, mainly because most believed incumbent RB1 Dalvin Cook could leave the team. Cook is scheduled for a fat $14.1 million cap hit this season, and the analytics-focused general manager, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, is probably skittish about tossing that sum in his direction.
Cook was effective in 2022, hitting home runs via touchdown scampers, but his general productivity dipped compared to years past. His yards per carry and yards over expected metrics dipped.
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Still, Cook saved about three Vikings games from ruin, and that ain’t nothin’.