Between grueling rehabilitations of their shredded knees, Dalvin Cook and Teddy Bridgewater sat inside the Winter Park training room last fall and talked about a day when they would both be healthy and scoring touchdowns for the Vikings.
What might have been.
There are plenty of story lines heading into Sunday's NFC playoff rematch between the Saints and Vikings, but none altered the Vikings' course more than the Aug. 30, 2016, practice where Bridgewater suffered a gruesome knee injury that he turned into an inspirational NFL comeback.
Bridgewater returns to U.S. Bank Stadium this weekend as the backup to future Hall of Famer Drew Brees.