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Former Vikings GM Jeff Diamond Joins VT Breakdown for Training Camp Preview

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Vikings training camp is finally here! (It would seem the world waited for it to get blazing hot out before starting it). Regardless, the players have arrived and are sweating it out down Eagan at TCO Performance Center. Well, most of them are sweating. DE/Edge Danielle Hunter is at camp, but he is technically a “hold-in”—which is not something you want to confuse with a sit-in, but it is kind of related, as there is some kind of protest going on.

Hunter is not happy with his contract—and with good reason, he is vastly underpaid. So, he is showing up and by agreement with his team is able to be at camp and not participate—so he doesn’t get fined, a la Super Bowl interviewee Marshawn Lynch (“I’m just here so I don’t get fined!