The Minnesota Vikings began free agency Day One rather slowly. The only tangible “news” was the team’s alleged interest in players like Carl Lawson, Trey Hendrickson, and Joe Thuney. By evening, all of those men flocked to other teams not named the Minnesota Vikings.
Folks went to bed, decrying the Vikings first day of free-agent movement as a dud. They were not wrong – until they were.
Shortly before the late nightly news, the Vikings inked hybrid 3-technique-nose-tackle interior defensive linemen Dalvin Tomlinson. Outside of one season with Sheldon Richardson in 2018, Minnesota normally employs 3DT players that merely serviceable.