EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. –
Vikings rookies Theiren Cockran and Keith Baxter played together for the Homestead High School (Florida) varsity football team in 2009 and 2010. Five years later, the teammates have been reunited and are suiting up in purple.
“We were both excited,” Baxter said about realizing they had both signed with the Vikings as undrafted free agents. “It was just funny to us – we both started smiling.”
Cockran and Baxter stayed in touch with each other while they played collegiately at the University of Minnesota and Marshall University, respectively.