Heading into the final preseason game tonight, one of the main questions I’ve been asking myself rests in whether the Vikings can justify keeping Dede Westbrook.
There was considerable optimism among Vikings fans when Westbrook was added. I did my best to adjust expectations. A solid, but unspectacular WR was deemed by many to be the missing piece in our offense, a WR3 who could finally take some of the receiving burden off our top-flight Thielen & Jefferson pairing. Unfortunately, Westbrook’s injury recovery has seriously hampered his ability to demonstrate whether he can be this WR3.