Believe it or not, Sam Bradford is a read-option quarterback here in Minnesota.
Bradford was a multisport star growing up in Oklahoma, standing out among his peers in basketball, hockey and, well, you name it. But Bradford, who has had his left knee surgically repaired twice, is not known as a runner in the NFL.
Instead, the Vikings ask him to execute plays with a run-or-pass option, also known as packaged plays, to rely on his brain, not his legs, to put defenses in a bind.
“Those, to me, are what you can do with guys that aren’t necessarily runners because he’s either handing off or throwing a quick pass,” said Scott Turner, the Vikings quarterback coach and son of Norv Turner, the offensive coordinator.