NaJee Thompson is so fast that he already had an NFL-ready nickname before Matt Daniels, the Vikings' moniker-maker extraordinaire, could spring one on him.
"I came in telling Hat I like to be called Flash," said Thompson, the undrafted rookie from Georgia Southern, referring to Daniels, the Vikings special teams coordinator, by his nickname. "I got that from some reporters back home in South Carolina. It means a lot to me."
Score one for the Fourth Estate in general and longtime Boiling Springs, S.C., sportswriter James McBee in particular because this young man can fly.