Vikings Hall of Fame Coach Bud Grant once said of injuries, “A player can’t achieve greatness without durability.”
Vikings Injuries Impacting Status + Observations from MIN-TEN
Some players have a knack for staying healthy enough to answer the bell each week — such as Kirk Cousins today and Jim Marshall in the days of the Purple People Eaters. And some players — due to bad luck, bad body construction, or less effective training methods — always seem to battle injuries that knock them out of a few or many games each season. Then there are a few players — such as our great running back Robert Smith in the 1990s — who overcome the injury bug from early in their career and become more durable players.